This decision calls on Spain and the United Kingdom to reach a definitive solution within the framework of the Brussels Declaration of 1984 and in accordance with the pertinent resolutions and applicable principles of the UN General Assembly. It should be remembered that these resolutions comprise the doctrine of the United Nations on Gibraltar which considers this territory to be a colony and which indicates that this colonial situation is a violation of the territorial integrity of Spain.
Furthermore, the General Assembly, taking note of the differences that exist between Spain and the United Kingdom as a result of the Trilateral Forum of Dialogue, not recognised by Spain, made clear the need to implement a new mechanism for local cooperation between Spain and the United Kingdom under which the inhabitants of Campo de Gibraltar and Gibraltar are represented, an issue on which Spain has been insisting for some time.
Finally, the text "welcomes the efforts of the two parties to resolve the current problems and participate in a form of flexible and receptive dialogue between all the relevant and pertinent parties concerned, in an informal manner and according to needs, and that these efforts should be directed towards finding common solutions".
This text reaffirms, for another year, the position that Spain has traditionally defended on Gibraltar at all international and regional forums.
This 4th Committee of the General Assembly has focused all the issues on the goal of the decolonisation of Non-Self-Governing Territories, which underlines the colonial status of Gibraltar.
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