British Prime Minister David Cameron recognized Tuesday that he agreed with Spain regarding the international campaign against the legitimate governments of Iran and Syria but he refused to talk about the situation of the Rock of Gibraltar. After a meeting with Spanish government President Mariano Rajoy, the British Prime Minister said the oil embargo against Iran is for Tehran to change its policies and abandon what Cameron called "nuclear weapons plans." However, the Iranian government stated it is developing a civilian atomic energy project with peaceful objectives, despite recent provocations from western countries, which included the murder of Iranian nuclear scientists, as part of the actions against Tehran. Cameron also said that the United Kingdom and Spain share the commitment to impose sanctions against Syria and the government headed by Bashar Al Assad, now suffering a wave of violence provoked by armed mercenaries infiltrated from abroad. But on the jurisdiction of the Rock of Gibraltar, Cameron refused to negotiate its future with the Spanish government without taking its inhabitants into account. The Rock of Gibraltar is located in the south of the Spanish Peninsula and is under British domination since 1713. According to Cameron, the people of Gibraltar (many of them of British descent) are the ones to decide their future. "On this aspect the UK policy is unchanged," he said. Rajoy said that "we have talked about Gibraltar, and the Foreign Ministers will keep on discussing the problem in the future; we have different positions, but we will keep talking about it."
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