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[ 11:55 | 12th January 2010 | Comment! ]

Spain’s communist Government – unfortunately the current holders of European Union’s rotating presidency, want the EU to go forward with improving relations with communist Cuba, despite a row after Havana’s refusal to grant entry to a Spanish member of the European Parliament.
“Isolation, blockage and embargo (against Cuba) do not lead to anything. They have not given any results in 50 years,” Spain’s Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said, according to monstersandcritics.com.
Moratinos made the comments …

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[ 14:36 | 20th July 2009 | 2 Comments ]

Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos will tbe the first Spanish minister to visit the UK dependancy of Gibraltar since 1704 when the territory became British under the Treaty of Utrecht.
Moratinos is going to meet his British counterpart David Miliband and Gibraltar’s chief minister Peter Caruana tomorrow, Reuters reports.
Spain ceded Gibraltar to Britain under a treaty signed in 1704, but has long maintained the rocky peninsula should be returned to Spanish sovereignty. Gibraltar’s government wants …