{"id":27860,"date":"2014-09-17T08:39:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T12:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=27860"},"modified":"2014-09-17T08:39:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T12:39:14","slug":"gibraltar-asks-for-additional-royal-navy-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/gibraltar-asks-for-additional-royal-navy-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Gibraltar asks for additional Royal Navy support"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spanish vessels have been making more frequent and blatant incursions into the waters around Gibraltar recently, and the governor has made it public that he supports the deployment of another, larger RN ship in the area to help deter these jaunts<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Governor Sir James Dutton has publicly voiced strong support for the deployment of a larger British naval vessel to patrol Gibraltar\u2019s territorial waters.<\/p>\n

Sir James, a retired Royal Marine with a distinguished military record, said such a move would send \u201ca really valuable message\u201d in the face of persistent incursions by Spanish state vessels.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it should happen, I have always thought it should happen, I\u2019ve always said it should happen,\u201d he said during a wide-ranging interview on GBC\u2019s Talk About Town<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Sir James said deployment of an offshore vessel would strengthen the Royal Navy\u2019s ability to patrol British waters and stay at sea for longer periods of time.<\/p>\n

The governor also revealed that \u201cmany\u201d officials at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office supported such a deployment, but that other factors had to be considered including parallel demands on the UK\u2019s limited resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would be lying if I said one is going to arrive next week, but there is a strong push for it and there is a lot of sympathy, there is a lot of support,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

During the interview, Sir James said Spain was unlikely to shift in its 300-year old position on Gibraltar and that it was important to seek ways of managing the situation through diplomacy so that tensions did not escalate. He said Britain now had a \u201cpretty slick\u201d process of responding to Spanish incursions and said that in the more serious cases, people should not underestimate the impact of calling in the Spanish ambassador, as has happened several times over the past year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spanish vessels have been making more frequent and blatant incursions into the waters around Gibraltar recently, and the governor has made it public that he supports the deployment of another, larger RN ship in the area to help deter these jaunts: Governor Sir James Dutton has publicly voiced strong support for the deployment of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62],"tags":[316,432,886,30,335],"class_list":["post-27860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","tag-borders","tag-diplomacy","tag-gibraltar","tag-navy","tag-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7fm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27861,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27860\/revisions\/27861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}