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Foreign relations of Spain

Disputes - international: Gibraltar issue with UK; Spain controls five places of sovereignty (plazas de soberanía) on and off the coast of Morocco - the coastal enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, which Morocco contests, as well as the islands of Peñon de Alhucemas, Peñon de Vélez de la Gomera, and Islas Chafarinas; by the Vienna Treaty[?] of 1815, Spain agreed to return Olivenza[?] to Portugal, but this hasn't been done yet.

Illicit drugs: key European gateway country for Latin American cocaine and North African hashish entering the European market; transshipment point for and consumer of Southwest Asian heroin

See also : Spain



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