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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 …