At its 64th plenary meeting, on 5 December 2008, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee),50
recalling its decision 62/523 of 17 December 2007 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 1984,51 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 implementation of the first package of measures concluded at the tripartite Forum for Dialogue on Gibraltar and the shared will to reach new agreements by July 2009.
