Spain and the United Kingdom want to reach an agreement on Gibraltar as soon as possible.

Spain, UK want to reach deal on Gibraltar ‘as soon as possible’

he Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel AlbaresHe highlighted on Monday that both his country and the United Kingdom We want to reach an agreement on the status of Gibraltar after Brexit “as soon as possible”, Although he did not want to set a specific date for reaching the agreement.

“As for the date, I don’t have a crystal ball, but of course what I can say is that as I always wanted, what (British Foreign Secretary) David Lammy told me is that He wants to agree as soon as possible.“Albares announced at a press conference after a meeting of EU foreign ministers held in Brussels.

Shortly after Lammy took over as Britain’s top diplomat, he and Albares spoke by telephone and discussed Gibraltar at a meeting earlier this month on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Washington.

Agreement to resume talks

Regarding what was discussed there, Albares said that: He and his British counterpart agreed to “resume talks (on the Rock) as soon as possible.”“

“By the way, the talks have never stopped. They have continued. I have said this on many occasions, they have continued at the technical level, but (it is about) resuming them at all levels and with much greater intensity,” he explained.

He admitted that Lamy “needs time” to “find his place”, although Albares acknowledged that the British minister “showed that he knows very well where we are in the negotiations and the points of agreement that we reached with David Cameron as British Foreign Secretary”.

“We agreed that the agreement, of course, is a good thing and beneficial for Gibraltar and the Campo de Gibraltar, and obviously for those 300,000 Andalusians who live there, and also that a lot of progress has been made up to the moment when new elections have been called, early elections in the United Kingdom,” he said.

Optimism, always.

Albares said he was “always optimistic” about reaching an agreement, but added that it did not depend on him alone, as the agreement between the EU and the UK would be closed.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Thursday stressed a “constructive” position in negotiations with the United Kingdom over Gibraltar after Britain’s exit from the European Union, with a view to reaching an agreement in the coming months.

Sanchez expressed this readiness hours before holding his first meeting with the new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in parallel with the European Political Group summit held in Woodstock (United Kingdom).

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