Tag: Gibraltar waters

• Tuesday, November 25th 2014 - 07:09 UTC

  Gibraltar to contract law of the sea expert to probe “innocent passage” concept

  

  A world legal expert on the law of the sea is to be engaged by the Gibraltar Government to probe the concept of ‘innocent passage’ as a concept of international law. The concept is regularly cited in relation to Spanish warships and Guardia Civil vessels when they pass through British Gibraltar Territorial Waters, usually when they do not engage in any other activity.

• Tuesday, January 7th 2014 - 23:58 UTC

  Record 496 Spanish incursions into Gibraltar waters, says the Foreign Office

  

  The Sunday Telegraph reported a record number of Spanish incursions into Gibraltar waters last year, but its calculations in fact fell short of the final total, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Monday, January 6th 2014 - 19:13 UTC

  Record Spanish incursions into Gibraltar waters in the last twelve months

  

  Spain has made a record number of illegal incursions into Gibraltar waters in the past year, new figures show. The Sunday Telegraph said the figures capped a 12 month period in which relations between the Rock and Madrid “reached their lowest ebb since the rule of General Francisco Franco.”

• Tuesday, November 26th 2013 - 20:34 UTC

  Spain prepared to take UK to the EU Court of Justice over Gibraltar waters

  

  Spain’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, Miguel Arias Cañete, said Spain would take the UK to the European Court of Justice if the European Commission failed to take action over reclamation works in Gibraltar waters.

• Saturday, November 9th 2013 - 05:49 UTC

  Westminster addressed Spain's Guardia Civil 'dangerous and provocative' actions in Gibraltar waters

  

  British Labor MP Jim Dobbin has filed an early day motion calling on the House of Commons to condemn the actions of the Spanish Guardia Civil crew that led to “an armed stand-off” with Royal Navy vessels in Gibraltar waters last week.

• Monday, August 19th 2013 - 13:04 UTC

  Quadripartite admits talks with Spain but with Gibraltar having voice, vote and veto, says opposition

  

  Gibraltar opposition Leader Daniel Feetham has urged a cooling down of the language in the row with Spain and confirmed that the GSD Opposition would agree to quadripartite talks with Spain so long as the Gibraltar delegation retained its own separate voice, vote and veto.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2013 - 16:34 UTC

  The Times comes strongly in support of Gibraltar’s wish to be ruled from Britain

  

  An editorial entitled ‘Spain should respect Gibraltarians’ wish to be ruled from Britain’ The Times on Tuesday sent one of its firmest views expressed in recent decades calling on Spain to form their policies around the concept of consent.

• Wednesday, May 22nd 2013 - 23:28 UTC

  Gibraltar: UK has no plans ‘at present’ to extend the 12 miles territorial waters around Gibraltar

  

  The British Government has no plans “at present” to extend British territorial waters around the Rock but does not rule out doing so in the future. The position was revealed in a statement by David Lidington, Britain’s Minister for Europe, in response to a question in the House of Commons.

• Saturday, May 4th 2013 - 09:03 UTC

  UK minister warns waters row escalation with Spain could damage Gibraltar’s economy

  

  UK Minister for Europe David Lidington has warned that an escalation of tension with Spain in the waters row could damage Gibraltar’s prosperity and wider UK interests and pointed out that the incursions were not “an armed attack or invasion” and that the response to them must be proportionate.

• Friday, October 5th 2012 - 19:45 UTC

  Spain’s Guardia Civil challenged Gibraltar waters on 47 occasions in eight months

  

  Guardia Civil vessels escorted Spanish fishing boats into Gibraltar territorial waters on 47 occasions during the first eight months of the year, according to the British Government. The information was revealed in a response to questions in the House of Lords, in which Britain also reaffirmed its position on sovereignty.