MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Gibraltar government said a Spanish patrol ship entered on Tuesday territorial waters around the UK territory on Spain’s southern tip that has been at the center of UK-Spanish tensions.
Illegal incursion into #British #Gibraltar Territorial Waters by Spanish Navy patrol ship Infanta Cristina this afternoon. #BGTW pic.twitter.com/IkYadi8XNn
— HM Govt of Gibraltar (@GibraltarGov) 4 апреля 2017 г.
Gibraltar's status after the UK withdrawal from the European Union is a sticking point in Brexit talks. Brussels has suggested that a separate deal between London and Madrid, which claims sovereignty over the territory, would be required for any EU-UK provisions on Gibraltar.
Gibraltar, a home to some 32,000 inhabitants, was ceded to Britain in 1713 but Spain continues to lay claims to the territory on its southern tip.
