Spanish Foreign Minister calls for talks on Gibraltar sovereignty

Spanish Foreign Minister calls for talks on Gibraltar sovereignty
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By h.b. - Jan 27, 2012 - 11:35 AM
José Manuel García Margallo has written to William Hague

José Manuel García Magallo, Spanish Foriegn Minister - EFE

Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel García Margallo, has written a letter to his British counterpart, William Hague, calling on London to restart talks on negotiating the sovereignty of Gibraltar. It is his response to the comments made by David Cameron in recent days, indicating that he is favour of self-determination on the Rock.

In the letter he reminds Hague of the undertaken agreed in 1984 between the two countries to search for a solution to the Gibraltar problem and he expressed the wish of the Spanish government ‘to restart talks on sovereignty’. The letter also refers to the so-called Brussels process which was interrupted in 2002 after the Gibraltarians rejected in a referendum the principles of an agreement on shared sovereignty reached between Madrid and London.

Margallo’s letter also mentions the idea of more regional conversations ‘in a balanced way’, indicating the participation of the Junta de Andalucía and the Campo de Gibraltar authorities on any subject as long it is not sovereignty.

Gibraltar’s new First Minister, Fabian Picard, said he was pleased with a meeting he held with the British Secretary of State for Europe, David Lidington who told him that London would not embark on talks on sovereignty without the consent of the Gibraltar people.

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