Mar 07 - Lord Debate Questions UK Government on Spanish Reassurance that Incursions Will Cease
Responding to questions Gibraltar and Spain in the UK’s House of Lords yesterday, Conservative Baroness Warsi told Lord Hoyle that Foreign Secretary William Hague had raised concerns about illegal incursions by Spanish State vessels into British Gibraltar Territorial Waters with the Spanish Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr Gonzalo de Benito, on 20 February. The question enquired specifically about the recent disruption of a Royal Navy parachute exercise in the bay of Gibraltar.
Commissioned by the Gibraltar Government to produce a portrait of Her Majesty the Queen, to be given to the Queen, local art teacher Chris-Anne Alcantara this afternoon received a copy of a thank you letter from the Queen’s Office that was sent to the Chief Minister.
In line with all other European Union jurisdictions, the Government of Gibraltar has frozen any assets which may be located in Gibraltar of ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich, former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and 16 other former senior Ukrainian officials suspected of misusing state funds and violating human rights.
The Government is looking to the past to criticise the Opposition once again, the GSD claims. The party has questioned the administration on how the Government intends to house those on the Housing List, as they promised to do during their first tenure in office.
