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MORE DETAILED COMMENTS ON INDIVIDUAL ASPECTS OF THE
PROPOSALS
STATUS OF GIBRALTAR
4. As has already been stated, the proposals as a
whole and the Spanish concept of the status of
Gibraltar would be unacceptable to Gibraltarian and
British Parliamentary opinion, not simply because the
proposals embody a transfer of sovereignty, but
because they also prescribe changes in other respects
which would be unwelcome, even were Gibraltarian
confidence in the various assurances and safeguards
forthcoming. Many of the specific changes in admin-
istration proposed, eg the appointment of a Spanish
Governor, might be an inevitable consequence of
Gibraltar's integration with Spain, following a
transfer of sovereignty, unless such a transfer could
be accomplished in an entirely different way. A
number of comments follow on the individual elements
of the Spanish proposals but clearly these elements
must ultimately stand or fall with the proposals as a
whole cand with the basic concept bohind Wrem-.
LEGAL POSITION
5.
The proposals would need to be spelled out in
much greater detail and to place greater emphasis on
the idea of a special regime for Gibraltar. There
would have to be absolute guarantees of the contin-
uation of such a regime, within which Gibraltarian
freedoms and institutions could continue to operate
as at present.
CONFIDMPPTAL
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