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‘We won’t hold UK hostage over Brexit’: Spain hopes to finalize Gibraltar deal by October
Spain’s foreign minister says the country still wants to reclaim the British enclave of Gibraltar but has pledged that it won’t hold up the UK’s transition out of the European Union to realize its territorial ambitions.
"We recognize that Gibraltar was ceded to Britain more than 300 years ago but our aim is to recover it," Alfonso Dastis told Reuters. "However, we do not want to convert the conversation between the European Union and Britain into a hostage-type situation."
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