The GSD has said that Tuesday’s statement by the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo that the GSD Government had “done nothing” for Laguna and Glacis Estate in 16 years of Government, is “typical of his now tiresome spin, excess and exaggeration.”
The Government had condemned the incursion into British Gibraltar Territorial Waters by the Spanish Survey vessel “Angeles Alvarino” on Tuesday night.
The Foreign Office has once again summoned the Spanish Ambassador to the UK, ‘to underline serious concern at the incursion into British Gibraltar Territorial Waters.’
Speaking after the summoning of His Excellency Federico Trillo, the Minister for Europe, David Lidington said, ‘I am extremely concerned to hear of another incursion into British Gibraltar Territorial Waters (BGTW) on 1 April by a Spanish state research vessel, which sought to undertake survey activity. Not only were the actions of the survey vessel unlawful, but it was accompanied by a Spanish Guardia Civil vessel whose dangerous manoeuvring presented a significant safety concern on the waters.
In a question put to the Foreign Secretary William Hague by Conservative MP for Romford, Andrew Rosindell, the matter of La Linea’s Alcaidesa Marina being partly constructed in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters was raised. In response, Minister for Europe, David Lidington, speaking on behalf of the Foreign Secretary, said that less than 0.0001 square miles of the marina encroaches on BGTW.
Yesterday, a member of the Cross Border Group delivered a speech to the Andalucian Parliament in Seville. Estibaliz Menoyo Sanchez delivered the speech below:
