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The Disabled - and air travel
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United Kingdom has still to approach Spain with a view to having the suspension formally lifted, says Gordon Nelson of The Gibraltar Local Disability Movement who has this week received a letter from Mr. David Lowe of the Committee on Petitions.
In his letter Mr. Lowe sends the GLDM a copy of the letter sent by H.E. Carlos Bastarrechethe, Spanish Ambassador to the European Union to Mr. Marein Libieki, Chairman of the Committee on Petitions. The letter represents the reply to a request for information concerning the implementation of the Cordoba Statement.
The Gibraltar Local Disability Movement (GLDM) presented a formal Petition to the European Parliament in 2006, following the implementation of the EU Regulation concerning the use of air travel by disabled and reduced mobility persons.
To persuade people with a disability to a particular aspect as the 18 September 2006 Spain aviation measure where Gibraltar Airport is concerned is absolute utter nonsense, they say.
It is important that Brussels, Spain, and our government stand by the EU law, where people with disabilities are not discriminated against in their relations with the European institutions.
The movement adds that it believes that there are no real legal justifications to stop Gibraltar in the implementation of the EU Regulation concerning the use of air travel by disabled and reduced mobility persons, but asks if the new airport will be considering the air travel by disabled issue, making provisions for the needs the disabled and reduced mobility persons may have.
The GLDM ends by adding that it will not stop in seeing the ratification of Spain?s introduction of implementation of the EU Regulation concerning the use of air travel by disabled and reduced mobility persons, and questions, why haven?t the United Kingdom who is for Gibraltar's external relations within the EU not approach Spain with a view to having the suspension formally lifted?.
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