Lammy hails 'historic' relationship with Spain

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Foreign Secretary David Lammy has claimed the government wants to reset its relationship with Europe, as he hailed the UK's 'historic' connection with Spain.    Mr Lammy welcomed Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Manuel Albares to 1 Carlton Gardens. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The UK and Spain share an important historic relationship.

00:18We cooperate on a range of issues, and particularly at this time, with a new government determined

00:27to have a reset with Europe, it is very important for us to be partnering and to be engaging

00:35with Spain at this moment.

00:39On central issues of security, with war in Europe particularly, having just come back

00:46from Ukraine, I'm looking forward to discussing these issues today, particularly as we head

00:53to the UN General Assembly.

00:56But also there's more that we can do together between Spain and the UK, particularly I think

01:03on climate and energy as we discuss needs going forward.

01:08And of course we hope to achieve prosperity and security for the people of Gibraltar with

01:16a new treaty cementing our relationship also with Spain and the European Union.

01:23Spain and the United Kingdom, we have a very strong bilateral relationship.

01:28It's half a million Spaniards living here in the UK and as many Britons living in Spain.

01:35We are among the main investors in each other's countries and have very strong connectivity.

01:41So we want to structure this political relation in benefit of our people.

01:48We are very happy to see that the United Kingdom wants to reset the relationship with

01:55the European Union.

01:57Having the largest Briton community in any European country, we think that it's in the

02:03benefits of everybody that the United Kingdom get as close as possible to the European Union.

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