European Commission Executive Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation José Manuel Albares and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, together with the Chief Minister of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo, met in Brussels earlier today.
HM the Queen issued the following message to mark Commonwealth Day:
In July this year, the opening of the 20th Commonwealth Games will be marked by the arrival in Glasgow of the baton that started its journey from Buckingham Palace five months ago.
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.