8 Jul, 2022 @ 17:16
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GIBRALTAR: Government gives big ‘no’ to joint sovereignty call from Spain

Feijoo Popular Party Rally In Malaga, Spain 19 Mar 2022
Andalusian regional president Juanma Moreno attends Popular Party rally in Torremolinos, near Malaga. After the political crisis in Spanish Popular party between former Popular Party president Pablo Casado and regional president of Madrid Isabel Diaz Ayuso, Alberto Nunez Feijoo is the favorite candidate to lead the Spanish Popular Party. In the weeks, Popular Party will organize a meeting where Alberto Nunez Feijoo will become predictably the next chief of Popular Party. (Photo by Jesus Merida / SOPA Images/Sipa USA) *** Local Caption *** 38258987

ANDALUCIA’S President has called for a move towards joint sovereignty between the UK and Spain over Gibraltar.

Juanma Moreno, has said he wanted cooperation amid the political turmoil in the United Kingdom after the ‘resignation’ of Boris Johnson as Conservative party leader.

But he added that the ‘reasonable’ thing to do  would be to edge towards co-sovereignty. He said: “It would be the most desirable, reasonable and sensible course for both workers in the Campo de Gibraltar and for the Gibraltarians themselves.”

The Government of Gibraltar responded swiftly, welcoming Moreno’s call for cooperation, but underlining that shared sovereignty is not on the table.

Feijoo Popular Party Rally In Malaga, Spain 19 Mar 2022
Andalucia President Juanma Moreno. Photo: Jesus Merida /SOPA Images/Sipa USA via Cordon Press

A spokesman said: “The Government of Gibraltar welcomes positive mutual cooperation with Spain and with the region of Andalucia next door, with no strings attached.

“However, this Government, as a matter of policy, and Gibraltar as a whole will not entertain shared or joint sovereignty in any form.

“It will be recalled that in 2002 that very principle was put to the people of Gibraltar in a referendum and this was decisively and overwhelmingly rejected. That situation has not changed and it will not change and the British sovereignty of Gibraltar will not change or be shared.”

But he added: “There is nonetheless still scope, between the obvious differences on sovereignty, to be able to work together on practical issues to improve the lives of citizens on both sides of the border, all the more so following the U.K. and Gibraltar’s departure from the EU. So cooperation yes, joint sovereignty no! The two do not need to mix.”

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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