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.
The following is a statement from the Defenders Of Gibraltar on this weekend’s frontier delays:
The Defenders of Gibraltar would like to thank all those people, groups, organizations and political parties who helped during one of the most tumultuous weekends Gibraltar has ever had to endure courtesy of the Spanish Government’s medieval approach to Diplomacy.
The number of hits on the Gibraltar Government’s frontier queue website reached close to 30,000 on Sunday following the border delays created by the Spanish authorities. This is ten times more than the number of daily hits routinely experience by the site.
Representatives of the La Linea fishermen have written to the Government of Gibraltar asking it to remove the concrete blocks which form part of an artificial reef created last week off the runway in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters. According to a spokesperson, the new reef affects 70 fishing boats.