New disdain from the UK and Gibraltar towards Spain. the Royal Navy It intends to conduct a naval maneuver next Tuesday, October 3, in the waters surrounding the rock, whose sovereignty is disputed by Spain and the United Kingdom.
He overcame the situation through A NOTICE TO SAILORS I posted it Gibraltar Port Authority On the social network with High-speed maneuvers and blank shots.
Apart from this notice, no other details have emerged, such as, e.g Number of ships and their classification They plan to participate in the training in what Gibraltar calls territorial waters, which Spain has sovereignty over.
A new local notice has been issued to seafarers:
Military training at BGTW
Royal Navy units will conduct a high-speed, blank-fire maneuver east of Gibraltar.
The training process is active on Tuesday, October 3, 2023 from 12:00 to 15:30.
The operating box shown below. pic.twitter.com/MZ32Vsa23v
– Port of Gibraltar (@gibraltarport) September 29, 2023
This episode represents a new step in A spiral of insults The British authorities intensified their efforts towards Spain last summer.
In July, the Government of Spain wrote to the Government of the United Kingdom A Verbal note of protest In the presence of twenty British MPs wearing military uniform and “deployed in… Sovereignty operations (Sovereignty Operations)” on board two British Royal Navy ships in Spanish waters. The Spanish executive also spoke of the continued presence of Nuclear submarines The British Navy in Gibraltar also expressed protest at this fact.
In August, a speeding patrol car chase Eagle 2the follower Customs control service (SVA) to a ship that was sailing in the bay without lights and without Automatic identification system (AIS) was activated, allowing the Prime Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardounleashing a new debate over sovereignty over the waters surrounding the rock.
Shortly after, the UK Ministry of Defense announced a $1.5 billion investment package Between 40 and 50 million pounds (between 46.8 and 58.5 million euros at the exchange rate) in projects to improve the colony’s military infrastructure, as announced by the Secretary of State for the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom, James HeapeyDuring his stay in the rock.
In mid-August, there was the first episode of harassment of a La Línea fishing boat in a long time, when My Daniellaby Jonathan Sanchez of La Lena, was contacted Adjacent to the eastern side of the colony Two ships belonging to the British colony authorities opposed his approval. The same event was repeated when he went to pick up the nets the next day and in the following weeks.
In the first days of September, thousands Cross-border workers They were trapped in a long queue to get to Gibraltar due to traffic controls activated by the Rock authorities. The collapse was repeated in the following days, and after criticism from the Social and Cultural Association of Spanish Workers in Gibraltar (Ascteg), the regular government responded by announcing that it would carry out “a major redesign of the pedestrian and vehicular entrances to Gibraltar on the land border with Spain” by installing “a Automatic door battery“.
Before the naval exercise was announced, the scheduling of a display for the Red Arrows air squadron created a new episode of friction. The aircraft was scheduled to put on a display in Minorca and Gibraltar on September 26, although pressure from the Spanish government led to the event being suspended.
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