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We shall see if it is the end of the road, says Bossano
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The Leader of the Opposition Joe Bossano said in parliament yesterday that the changes in the way the government operates under the new constitution is one for the present government.
A different government may organise its affairs differently - so it should not be assumed that the only way to do it is the way it is being done.
The new constitution does modernise the 1969 constitution, he added, and the one that existed in 1969 modernised the one that existed in 1964.
Such terms are the same as used in respect of other territories. Gibraltar has now fulfilled the invitation to produce proposals for a modern relationship between the colony and the administering power.
The UK is giving the view that even without this constitutional change, neither Gibraltar nor anybody else on the UN list of non-self governing territories should still be there.
What remains to be seen is whether the UK's position in the 4th Committee is compatible with the concept that the status of Gibraltar today is not the status of Gibraltar that existed in October last year.
Because if the UK comes up with Spain with the same consensus decision that they did a year ago and which they have done every year since the Brussels Agreement - and welcomed by the UN as the process under which Gibraltar's future status as a decolonised territory would be determined and agreed - then in fact this constitution is not the end of the road as the chief minister seems to think it is, said Mr Bossano.
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