Spain's UK comments on Scotland hailed by SNP

The SNP has welcomed comments by Spain's Foreign Minister that his government would "have nothing to say" on independence as further evidence that Scotland will remain a member of the EU.

Spanish foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo has been widely reported in Spanish and English language newspapers insisting that the constitutional arrangements of UK nations "is their own business".
Independence critics have raised fears that Spain may veto Scotland's EU membership on the grounds that it would encourage separatism in its own country.

Speaking in London after the international conference on Somalia on Friday, he said: "If the two parts of the United Kingdom are in agreement that it is in accord with their constitutional arrangement, written or unwritten, Spain would have nothing to say. We would simply maintain that it does not affect us."

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