Gib tug-of-war: Rajoy tells Cameron 'sovereignty is not the issue here'
Saturday, September 7, 2013 @ 7:06 PM
SPANISH president Mariano Rajoy and British PM David Cameron met to discuss the Gibraltar struggle in St Petersburg yesterday (Friday).
The Spanish government stressed that the current conflict has 'nothing to do with sovereignty' of the Rock, where most residents wish to remain British, since this was a 'long-running issue', despite foreign affairs minister José Manuel García-Margallo having stated publicly that 'the solution for the Gibraltar problems is for the Rock to be returned to Spain.
Yet Rajoy says that the main stumbling block was the artificial reef which the Gibraltarian authorities had built in British waters, but in an area frequently used by fishermen from La Línea de la Concepción (Cádiz), the nearest Spanish town to Gibraltar.
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