At its 62nd plenary meeting, on 10 December 2009, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee),52
recalling its decision 63/525 of 5 December 2008 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 1984,53 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 recent successful trilateral ministerial meeting of the Forum for Dialogue in Gibraltar on 21 July 2009 and the shared commitment to make progress in six new areas of cooperation.
