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dipsydoodle

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Thu Aug 15, 2013, 09:16 AM Aug 2013

See you in court, Gibraltar chief tells Spain over fishing spat

(Reuters) - Gibraltar is confident it will win any legal case brought by Spain in a dispute over fishing waters and border controls, the head of the British territory told Reuters, challenging the Madrid government to meet him in court.

A defiant Fabian Picardo, Gibraltar's chief minister, said he welcomed Spain's new willingness to take issues with Gibraltar to international courts, although it has not specified what issues and what tribunal.

"In any fairly constituted international tribunal, Gibraltar will win game, set and match," Picardo said late on Wednesday in his large, intensely air-conditioned office in the sub-tropical British territory near the tip of the Iberian peninsula.

Spain ceded Gibraltar to Britain 300 years ago in the Treaty of Utrecht, but has long sought to reclaim it. Britain considered sharing sovereignty with Spain in the 1990s, but now promises to respect Gibraltar's wishes to remain British.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/15/uk-gibraltar-spain-idUKBRE97E0KO20130815

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See you in court, Gibraltar chief tells Spain over fishing spat (Original Post) dipsydoodle Aug 2013 OP
Live in Spain endesano Aug 2013 #1
I thought that might be the case. dipsydoodle Aug 2013 #2

endesano

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1. Live in Spain
Fri Aug 16, 2013, 04:57 AM
Aug 2013

I live in Spain, costa del sol and the news is big only the people of spain don´t care about this they have more problems than a piece of rock

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