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Federico Trillo to be relieved as Spain’s ambassador to the UKForeign minister denies link between move and recent report on 2003 military air crash Madrid 4 ENE 2017 - 11:33 EST Federico Trillo will be relieved as Spanish ambassador to the UK, sources at the Foreign Ministry have confirmed. But the same sources denied any link between this move and a recent report by the Council of State, the government’s top advisory body, laying responsibility for a 2003 military air crash at the door of the Defense Ministry. Trillo was the defense minister at the time of the tragedy, which claimed 62 lives.In response to the report, the contents of which were revealed by EL PAÍS on Tuesday, Spain’s two largest opposition parties, the Socialist Party (PSOE) and Podemos, called for Trillo to be removed as ambassador over his responsibility for the crash of the Yakovlev-42 against a mountainside in Turkey.Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has come out in defense of Trillo, who is reportedly being relieved along with 70 other diplomats who have served out their terms.Continued: http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/01/04/inenglish/1483544808_355788.html
