Main hurdle in UK-Spain talks over Gibraltar is cross-border traffic

Main hurdle in UK-Spain talks over Gibraltar is cross-border traffic

Main hurdle in UK-Spain talks over Gibraltar is cross-border traffic

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Arancha Gonzalez Laya speaks during a joint news conference at the Foreign Ministry in Amman, Jordan. File/Reuters

The main hurdle in talks between Spain and Britain over Gibraltar's post-Brexit status is keeping cross-border traffic fluid, Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya said on Tuesday.

Madrid and London are negotiating how to police the land border between Spain and Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory on the southern tip of the Iberian peninsula, as it was excluded from the last-minute exit deal reached between Britain and the European Union last week.

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