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Spain insists, co-sovereignty proposal for Gibraltar is “a generous offer”
Dastis Quecedo told La Vanguardia 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” 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.
“But these things take time and we want to have the consensus of everyone.”
Quecedo Dastis was responding to questions on Brexit during a wide-ranging interview on Spanish foreign policy.
He repeated his belief that the co-sovereignty proposal tabled by Madrid was “a generous offer”.
“Gibraltar needs to know that once the United Kingdom is outside the EU, it too is outside,” he said.
“The Gibraltar question will have to be tackled bilaterally if it wants to have a relationship with the EU.”
Quecedo Dastis suggested that the UK’s withdrawal from the EU could open the door for greater integration between the remaining member states.
“The United Kingdom has taken a decision, we regret that, but we have to adapt to it,” he told La Vanguardia.
“They were never comfortable in the EU and, perhaps, their exit will give us an opportunity to give greater coherence and common vision to the European project.”
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Read all commentsI'm beginning to understand where the argentines got it.
Feb 01st, 2017 - 07:58 pm +5Britain's sovereignty of Gibraltar depends on the Treaty of Utrecht and as the First Minister has reiterated “Speaking to the UK Parliament Foreign Affairs committee in March 2008 Peter Caruana the Chief Minister of Gibraltar noted: Spain does not dispute that Gibraltar is properly, in law, British territory. Therefore, this is not disputed land. She has a political claim to the return of Gibraltar sovereignty, but she does not dispute the fact that in proper international law, she ceded sovereignty to Britain in perpetuity and therefore it is undisputed British sovereign territory.”
Feb 01st, 2017 - 10:19 am +4The fact that Spain may regret an event which was a result of the War of Spanish Succession some 200 hundred years' ago is neither here nor there - the Habsburgs should not have intermarried so much over the period of their tenure of the Crown of Spain!
Quecedo Dastis was responding to questions on Brexit during a wide-ranging interview on Spanish foreign policy.
Feb 01st, 2017 - 10:24 am +4He repeated his belief that the co-sovereignty proposal tabled by Madrid was “a generous offer”.
Is there a valid sovereignty claim?
Or just a fairy tale?
Gibraltar – Some Relevant International Law:
https://www.academia.edu/10575180/Gibraltar_-_Some_Relevant_International_Law
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