UN face-off

CHIEF Minister Fabian Picardo has reminded Spain that by giving the Rock to the British ‘in perpetuity’ at the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, it could not have any ‘sovereignty dispute’ in relation to Gibraltar.

The argument was part of a speech which he used at the UN Committee of 24 in New York, where he spoke in favour of Gibraltar’s self-determination.

He said that the British overseas territory had the right to choose its own destiny under the General Assembly Resolution 1514 of international law.

The Chief Minister dedicated the speech to the children of Gibraltar, as ‘theirs is the future of the Rock, always’.