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The Foreign Secretary, José Manuel Albarez, insisted yesterday that he sees a “constructive spirit” in the UK to reach an agreement that will strengthen the “Gibraltar-Campo de Gibraltar Co-Prosperity Area”.
Albaris, who was on a visit to Cordoba, answered reporters’ questions about the progress of negotiations between London and Brussels on the status of Gibraltar remaining after Britain’s exit from the European Union, and added that ‘The ball is in the UK’s court’.
The minister said that “two agreements are needed” and emphasized that once we “put a global agreement on the table” such that the outcome would require “not just a Spanish proposal”, but “UK acceptance”.
“We hope that this will be done as soon as possible,” Al-Bares stressed, stressing: “We are ready for an agreement.”
The British government had said in March that it was continuing to work “intensively” to achieve this agreement, as revealed Europe Press A spokesman for the British Ministry when asked if the recent agreement between London and Brussels on the Northern Ireland Protocol, the so-called “Windsor Framework”, will allow the opening of negotiations on the rock, twelve rounds of which have already been held.
London defends that the basis of the agreement is the political framework agreed between the UK and Spain on 31 December 2020, which provides for gate suppression but raises the issue of border controls at Gibraltar port and airport.
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