Yet sovereignty was the great unmentionable at his meeting with the British foreign secretary, David Miliband, and Gibraltar's chief minister, Peter Caruana.

The spokesman said six British Tornado F3 aircraft on June 30 began a second day of training in Exercise Southern Flame, flying out of Gibraltar.

GIBRALTAR - Spain has refused to allow British air force jets to use its airspace near Gibraltar for military exercises, a spokesman for British forces in the territory said June 30.