Liam Fix says the Spanish 'incursions' in British territorial waters are 'not justified nor tolerable'.
The British Secretary of State for Defence, Liam Fox, has said that the Spanish ‘incursions’ in the British territorial waters of Gibraltar ‘are not justified nor tolerable’.
He made his comments during a visit to the Rock on Saturday, and said that such distractions were not needed right in the middle of the Libya mission.
Liam Fox was referring to incidents over the past year with the Guardia Civil on the one hand, and the Gibraltar police and the British Navy on the other, during persecutions in the waters round rock.
‘This type of behaviour at the level it is occurring is not acceptable’, he said, and underlined that the solution has to be found in the political sphere.
Gibraltar First Minister, Peter Caruana, said that the new planned coastguard would respond to such maritime incidents. That comment comes after Javier Arenas, the PP leader in Andalucía, claimed that the creation of such a body ‘would mean accepting the jurisdictional waters of Gibraltar’, and therefore could not be accepted.
Also during the visit Liam Fox signed an agreement to pass some land and buildings from the Ministry of Defence to the local Gibraltar administration.
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