MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for February 1st 2017
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Wednesday, February 1st 2017 - 09:16 UTC
Spain insists, co-sovereignty proposal for Gibraltar is “a generous offer”
Spain is seeking “the consensus of everyone” in order to further its sovereignty aspirations over Gibraltar, the country’s Minister for Foreign Affairs said in an interview at the weekend.Alfonso Dastis Quecedo told La Vanguardia newspaper that “there is no doubt” as to Spain’s position in respect of the Rock. “We want that piece of Spain to be reintegrated into Spain,” he said.
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Wednesday, February 1st 2017 - 09:00 UTC
Trump begins to forge conservative Supreme Court; Democrats expected to battle nomination
President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch, a fast-rising conservative judge with a writer’s flair, to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, a selection expected to spark a fierce fight with Democrats over a jurist who could shape America’s legal landscape for decades to come.
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Wednesday, February 1st 2017 - 08:47 UTC
Parliament expected to support bill to open way for Brexit negotiations
British Members of Parliament are to vote later whether to give Theresa May the power to get Brexit negotiations under way. The government is expected to win, with most Conservative and Labour MPs set to back its European Union Bill.
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Wednesday, February 1st 2017 - 06:34 UTC
Falklands: Argentine lawmakers propose two “spaces of confidence” one with UK, the other with Islanders
Argentine lawmakers visiting the UK proposed “generating a space of confidence between Argentina and the UK, and between Argentina and the Islanders, so that in the future a good faith discussion” on the Malvinas Islands sovereignty can be addressed. Likewise additional flights to the Falklands must at some point call in Argentina.
