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"Mr President, I think that this
situation was best summed up by Greenpeace when it planted a banner on the wreck bearing the slogan ‘vertido diplomático’ – diplomatic spillage.
The problem is in fact twofold: there is the ecological problem and then there is the diplomatic problem. However, the latter cannot be used as an excuse for not tackling the former seriously.
For example, the
incident is symptomatic of the chronic oil pollution of the Bay of Algeciras due to the failure of Gibraltar to comply with European legislation and also the excessive permissiveness of the Spanish authorities. In any case, I should like to highlight, or perhaps I should be grateful for, the sudden ecological concern of fellow Members in the Partido Popular. I get the feeling, at any rate, that the interest in the
is not so much to do with the need to tackle the ecological problem as with creating the internal opposition to which we are so accustomed.
To reiterate, I believe that there is a diplomatic problem but the fundamental problem is an ecological one which must be tackled immediately."@en1
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