Gibraltar’s representation at the Labour Party Conference continued yesterday evening with the Gibraltar Reception hosted by the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and featuring a keynote speech by the UK Minister for Europe and the Overseas Territories Stephen Doughty MP.
HMGoG : UK HAS NOT AGREED BILATERAL OR QUADRILATERAL
Her Majesty's Government of Gibraltar warmly welcomes the statement of staunch support from Foreign Secretary William Hague yesterday on his arrival in Brussels about the determination of the United Kingdom to to stand with the people of Gibraltar at this time of disproportionate and politically motivated controls at Gibraltar frontier.
HMGoG has also noted the statement by Mr Margallo today at his press conference after the EU Foreign Ministers meeting in Brussels yesterday.
Answering questions at a press conference today, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague told Wall Street Journal Reporter Laurence Norman that he welcomed the fact the European Commission is sending a fact-finding mission to the border. He added that the Government believed the delays at the border have been disproportionate and are politically motivated. ‘No-one should underestimate our determination to stand with the people of Gibraltar.’
Gibraltarian resident of Santa Margarita in La Linea, Allen Bula, yesterday had two tyres of his Gibraltarian registered car slashed as it was parked outside his home.
Speaking to YGTV Mr. Bula noted that he had been at home all afternoon when the incident occurred. At 5:30pm he found that the front and back tyres on the driver’s side of his vehicle had been slashed. He found that two other Gibraltarian registered vehicles in the area had also had their tyres slashed.