Question of Gibraltar

The General Assembly, recalling its decision 59/519 of 10 December 2004 and the statements agreed to by the Governments of Spain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Brussels on 27 November 1984,1 and in Madrid on 27 October 2004, and noting the establishment, pursuant to the latter, of the tripartite forum for dialogue on Gibraltar, under the statement made jointly by the Governments of Spain, the United Kingdom and Gibraltar on 16 December 2004:

(a) Urges both Governments, while listening to the interests and aspirations of Gibraltar, to reach, in the spirit of the 27 November 1984 statement, a definitive solution to the question of Gibraltar, in the light of relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and applicable principles, and in the spirit of the Charter of the United Nations;

(b) Welcomes the establishment of a new tripartite forum for dialogue on Gibraltar, under the statement of 16 December 2004, separate from the Brussels Process.

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