The assurance that there will not be sovereignty talks with Spain against the wishes of the Gibraltarians has again been stressed at talks in London today between Europe minister and Gibraltar's Chief Minister.
This comes at a time when the new PP government in Spain is conditioning cooperation with Gibraltar to advances on sovereignty for Spain.
But even Spanish workers are expressing concern at the extreme policy being mooted by the PP government.
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UK prime minister David Cameron used his high profile and important speech at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg to highlight support for Gibraltar's self-determination.
It followed a question from the Valencia Senator, Pedro Agramunt who had asked about decolonisation. This elicited the following reply from Mr Cameron: ‘I don’t know if your question has anything to do with Gibraltar. I have a very clear point of view, and we are in favour of self-determination.’
Mr. Cameron at the time was answering questions from parliamentarians in the Council of Europe, when he also admitted the procedure there was ‘more civilised than what he has in the British parliament.’
The impassionate speech by Mr. Cameron urged EU leaders to seize a 'once-in-a-generation chance' to make sweeping changes to the European Court of Human Rights, calling for reforms to give greater precedence to rulings by the courts of member nations, he told the 47 countries of the Council of Europe.
Gibraltar could not have asked for a bigger or more appropriate stage to have its support confirmed by the UK Government on self-determination and by none other than the UK Prime Minister himself.
Mr. Cameron’s comments to the Spanish senator will not have gone down well with the new PP Government in Madrid, who themselves have come out publicly signalling a new hard lined official approach to the Gibraltar question, as the new Spanish foreign minister Sr Margallo appears to be living in the past.
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