Oct 14 Opposition Respond To Chief Ministers Remarks in the UN

Written on 14 October 2013.

Whilst welcoming that part of the Chief Minister’s intervention in the US dealing with the 2006 Constitution and the Cordoba Agreement, the GSD questions the appropriateness of his far too generalised and indiscriminate comments regarding the campaign of hatred against the people of Gibraltar, only weeks before he is to hold talks with the Spanish Government.

As Gibraltar’s Chief Minister, Mr Picardo should at all times distinguish, between the Government of Spain on the one hand and the Spanish nation and media on the other. There are many people in Spain who have been critical of the way the PP Government has dealt with Gibraltar and the Chief Minister himself has made good use of his TV appearances, newspaper and radio interviews in Spain to defend Gibraltar’s position.

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Oct 14 Government and Opposition remain poles apart on Constitution and Cordoba

Written on 14 October 2013.

The latest statement by the Opposition in relation to the 2006 Constitution and the Cordoba agreement has missed the point.

The position of the Government on these two issues remains unchanged.

The Government does not believe that the 2006 Constitution represents the maximum level of self-government short of independence. It represents the maximum level that could be extracted from the United Kingdom in the Constitutional negotiations which took place at that time. There are further steps between the present Constitution and independence. Indeed, the full proposals contained in the House of Assembly Select Committee Report of 1999, which were then watered down in those talks, is an example of such a step.

The Chief Minister was simply making the point in Washington, which had been made several times in the past, in the context of the requirements of the United Nations for the removal of Gibraltar from the UN list of colonies.

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Crime Report For Weekend Ending 13 Oct

Written on 14 October 2013.

Media – Police Reports

From 0630hrs the 11/10/2013 to 0630hrs the 12/10/2013

CRIME REPORTS

3 Reports of Criminal Damage

5 Reports of Theft

1 Report of Throwing Missiles to the damage/danger of any person

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Oct 11 - Picardo Meets With British UN Ambassador

Written on 11 October 2013.

Immediately after his speech at the UN, the Chief Minister held a meeting with Sir Mark Lyall Grant, the British Ambassador to the UN at which Mr Picardo briefed the Ambassador on the current issues affecting Gibraltar.

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