Spain believes the Brexit close the possibility of co-sovereignty in Gibraltar

USPA NEWS - The Spanish Minister of Foreing Affairs, Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, believes the departure of the United Kingdom of the European Union on the possibility of co-sovereignty over Gibraltar. The Chief Minister of the colony Friday rejected that possibility.

"It's a turnabout that opens completely new perspectives on the issue of Gibraltar as we had not had in a long time," he said the head of the Spanish diplomacy, Jose Manuel García-Margallo, told a radio station. The minister recalled the favorable position of Gibraltarians to stay in Europe and its threat to approach Spain if the Brexit won the referendum called by British Prime Minister David Cameron. Spain claims for years at the United Nations to British colonization in Gibraltar and the governments of Madrid and London negotiate a while the situation of the territory, which was handed over to Britain in the eighteenth century under the Treaty of Utrecht.

However, the Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, Friday rejected be under shared sovereignty between Spain and the United Kingdom in exchange for maintaining access to the single European market. Speaking at the Gibraltar Parliament, Picardo said that "such ideas never prosper. Gibraltar never pay the price of sovereignty for access to a market; Spanish will never be whole, or in part or at all," although he admitted he expects the British Government measures to mitigate the effects of the output of the United Kingdom of the European Union.