At its 75th plenary meeting, on 17 December 2007, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee),42
recalling its decision 61/522 of 14 December 2006 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 1984,43 and in Madrid on 27 October 2004, and noting the establishment, pursuant to the latter, of the tripartite Forum for Dialogue on Gibraltar, separate from the Brussels Process, under the statement made jointly by the Governments of Spain, the United Kingdom and Gibraltar on 16 December 2004:
(a) Urged both Governments, while listening to the interests and aspirations of Gibraltar, to reach, in the spirit of the statement of 27 November 1984, 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) Welcomed the ongoing successful outcome of the first package of measures concluded in the tripartite Forum for Dialogue on Gibraltar.
