Original sentence: In response, Spain completely closed the border with Gibraltar and severed all communication links
Edited sentence: In response, Spain completely closed the border with Gibraltar and severed all communication links (it is worth noting that Spanish official terminology uses the word "fence", since it does not recognise the possibility of having a "border" with its own territory).The reclamation was revived in the verge of the de-colonisation proccess during the sixties, the Spanish claim for de-colonisation of the territory being supported in the United Nations