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Bilbao (Spain) Jan 2 (EFE).- Two days after announcing a preliminary agreement between Spain and the United Kingdom on post-Brexit status of Gibraltar, the Spanish foreign minister Arancha González Laya visited the port of Bilbao on Saturday.FOOTAGE AND SOUNDBITES OF SPAIN'S FOREIGN MINISTER DURING HER VISIT ON SATURDAY:"This is a visit to Bilbao port on the first day of the year under a new commercial regulation with the UK. I wanted to come here to the port to make sure that all the preparations that Spain, the port and all the authorities have been making in the last months were working."
La Línea de la Concepción (Spain), Jan 1 (EFE), (Camera: Andrés Carrasco).- The Gibraltar fence will be demolished in a few months due to the agreement reached between Spain and the United Kingdom, by which the British colony will be part of the Schengen area and will have border controls only at the airport and the port.FOOTAGE OF GIBRALTAR.
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