At its 59th plenary meeting, on 18 December 2012, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee),58 recalling its decision 66/522 of 9 December 2011:
(a) Urged the Governments of Spain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, while listening to the interests and aspirations of Gibraltar, to reach, in the spirit of the Brussels Declaration 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) Took note of the desire of the United Kingdom to continue with the trilateral Forum for Dialogue on Gibraltar;
(c) Took note of the desire of Spain to replace the Forum with a new mechanism for local cooperation in the interest of social well-being and regional economic development, in which the people of the Campo de Gibraltar and Gibraltar were represented.
