At its 71st plenary meeting, on 10 December 2004, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee), 49
recalling its decision 58/526 of 9 December 2003, and recalling at the same time that the statement agreed to by the Governments of Spain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at Brussels on 27 November 198450 stipulated, inter alia, the following:
“The establishment of a negotiating process aimed at overcoming all the differences between them over Gibraltar and at promoting cooperation on a mutually beneficial basis on economic, cultural, touristic, aviation,
military and environmental matters. Both sides accept that the issues of sovereignty will be discussed in that process.
The British Government will fully maintain its commitment to honour the wishes of the people of Gibraltar as set out in the preamble of the 1969 Constitution”,
urged both Governments, while listening to the interests and aspirations of Gibraltar, to reach in the spirit of that statement a definitive solution to the question of Gibraltar, in the light of relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and in the spirit of the Charter of the United Nations.
