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Spain disputes Portugal islands
Pedro Silva Sat Sep 07, 2013 4:15 pm
My friends, this was taken from The Portugal News newspaper:
http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/spain-disputes-portugal-islands/29269
http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/spain-disputes-portugal-islands/29269
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Re: Spain disputes Portugal islands
bb1 Sat Sep 07, 2013 4:26 pm
Oh wonderful, more territorial disputes in Europe!
Responding this week to the emergence of Spain’s moves to alter the designation of the Savage Islands, Portugal said it is preparing a document for the UN in which it contests claims being lodged across the border.
Foreign Minister Rui Machete this week declined to publicise the content of the document, but said it does underline Portuguese hegemony over the island region.
Looking to diffuse a rise of divisive nationalism in the Iberian Peninsula, Minister Machete said: “This is not a bilateral discussion between two countries but rather an interpretation that each side is making.”
While details of Madrid’s actions only emerged close to two months after their bid to shrink Portuguese territorial waters had been presented to the UN, President Cavaco Silva paid a surprise visit to the islands only two weeks after Spain initiated this action.
The President also became the first Portuguese head-of-state to spend a night in the territory when he slept on the Vasco da Gama frigate on the night of 16 July.
Cavaco Silva’s visit was criticised at the time as it took place when Portugal’s coalition government had been rocked by a series of resignations, but observers were this week suggesting the visit was not just a mere coincidence, bearing in mind diplomatic measures undertaken by Spain’s UN representatives in New York.
The Savage Islands are not the only territory which is being contested by Portugal and Spain.
The town of Olivença, located south of Elvas in the Alentejo and Badajoz across the border, has been the centre of a dispute that has lasted two centuries.
The Portuguese Defence Force’s Geographical Institute (IGE) has repeatedly declined to draw the geographical line between Portugal and Spain where this town is situated, leaving a huge void along the border which divides the two countries.
Those are awfully big rocks - personally, I'd say they're islands.
Responding this week to the emergence of Spain’s moves to alter the designation of the Savage Islands, Portugal said it is preparing a document for the UN in which it contests claims being lodged across the border.
Foreign Minister Rui Machete this week declined to publicise the content of the document, but said it does underline Portuguese hegemony over the island region.
Looking to diffuse a rise of divisive nationalism in the Iberian Peninsula, Minister Machete said: “This is not a bilateral discussion between two countries but rather an interpretation that each side is making.”
While details of Madrid’s actions only emerged close to two months after their bid to shrink Portuguese territorial waters had been presented to the UN, President Cavaco Silva paid a surprise visit to the islands only two weeks after Spain initiated this action.
The President also became the first Portuguese head-of-state to spend a night in the territory when he slept on the Vasco da Gama frigate on the night of 16 July.
Cavaco Silva’s visit was criticised at the time as it took place when Portugal’s coalition government had been rocked by a series of resignations, but observers were this week suggesting the visit was not just a mere coincidence, bearing in mind diplomatic measures undertaken by Spain’s UN representatives in New York.
The Savage Islands are not the only territory which is being contested by Portugal and Spain.
The town of Olivença, located south of Elvas in the Alentejo and Badajoz across the border, has been the centre of a dispute that has lasted two centuries.
The Portuguese Defence Force’s Geographical Institute (IGE) has repeatedly declined to draw the geographical line between Portugal and Spain where this town is situated, leaving a huge void along the border which divides the two countries.
Those are awfully big rocks - personally, I'd say they're islands.
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Re: Spain disputes Portugal islands
Pedro Silva Sat Sep 07, 2013 4:29 pm
this issue have no sense nowadays. it belongs to Portugal, should continue to belong to Portugal.
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Re: Spain disputes Portugal islands
lily Sat Sep 07, 2013 5:16 pm
Those are definitely not just rocks.
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