Tag: Gibraltar National Day

• Wednesday, September 11th 2024 - 13:15 UTC

  Falklands Legislative Assembly celebrates Gibraltar National Day

  

  The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly is proud to join Gibraltar in celebrating Gibraltar Day today, 10th September. As fellow Overseas Territories, the Falkland Islands and Gibraltar share a unique bond, one rooted in the resilience, and a shared commitment to preserving our cultures and values as part of the global British family and Commonwealth.

• Wednesday, September 11th 2024 - 13:02 UTC

  Red and white festivity on Gibraltar National Day 2024

  

  The 10th of September is celebrated as Gibraltar National Day, to commemorate the referendum held on that date in 1967 in which the people of Gibraltar were asked whether they wished to pass under Spanish sovereignty, remain under British sovereignty, with its own self-governing institutions. The result was a landslide victory for the latter choice.

• Tuesday, September 10th 2024 - 08:00 UTC

  UK multi-party MPs attend the celebrations of Gibraltar National Day

  

  A group of eleven MPs and Peers from across the UK political spectrum will join this year’s National Day celebrations in Gibraltar.

• Monday, September 9th 2024 - 09:37 UTC

  Chief Minister Fabian Picardo National Day message: ‘Gibraltar will not blink’

  

  ”When we gather on Tuesday (September 10) to celebrate National Day it is important that we send a clear message. There are fundamental positions that we will never renounce and our resolve and determination remains as strong as ever.

• Tuesday, September 12th 2023 - 07:16 UTC

  UK Foreign Secretary Cleverly at Gibraltar Day celebrations, on a private capacity visit

  

  British Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, was present on Sunday at the Gibraltar National Day celebrations. Cleverly, who was on a private visit to the Rock with his family, followed the celebrations from a balcony in Casamates, but did not take part in the official events.

• Friday, September 8th 2023 - 10:31 UTC

  Falklands delegation present at Gibraltar National Day on Sunday

  

  A group of eighteen members from the House of Commons and the House of Lords will be in Gibraltar this week on a working visit for National Day, Sunday September 10. They will coincide with a separate delegation of leaders from the British Overseas Territories, including Falkland Islands representatives who will engage in preparatory work with a view to the next meeting of the Joint Ministerial Council with the UK in November.

• Tuesday, September 12th 2017 - 08:42 UTC

  May reaffirms UK's Gibraltar sovereignty commitment in National Day message

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May has said the United Kingdom will stand by Gibraltar for as long as Gibraltarians wish to remain British, reaffirming the double lock sovereignty commitment as the Rock celebrated a historic National Day.

• Saturday, September 9th 2017 - 20:54 UTC

  Sir Alan Duncan in Gibraltar to celebrate the Rock's National Day

  

  The United Kingdom will stand by Gibraltar, its people and its economy for as long as Gibraltarians wish to remain British, Sir Alan Duncan said ahead of an official visit to the Rock. Britain’s Minister for Europe at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office arrived at the Rock on Saturday and will spend the weekend in Gibraltar celebrating National Day, 10 September, and the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Referendum.

• Saturday, September 12th 2015 - 10:18 UTC

  Gibraltar: Elizabeth “our Queen by invitation and not by imposition; twice voted”

  

  The Queen of Gibraltar and the Rock’s evacuation generation were honoured on National Day Thursday by thousands of Gibraltarians who crammed into Casemates Square dressed in red and white.

• Wednesday, September 11th 2013 - 00:59 UTC

  “We will never concede one drop of our waters to Spain”, pledged Picardo on Gibraltar Day

  

  By Jim Watt - The Gibraltar National Day political rally organised by the Self-Determination Group for Gibraltar (SDGG) was held at Casemates square on Tuesday. On stage were local politicians, including the leader of the opposition, heads and representatives of other British Overseas Territories, including the Falkland Islands, British MP's from all parties and Mr Perry Stieglitz Gibraltar's man in the US.