Spain welcomes the UN bury the Cordoba Declaration The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain, José Manuel García-Margallo, said yesterday that the conflict resolution passed Gibraltar on the 28th in the Committee on Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) of un-disclosed for Southern Europe in its 30th edition last - is a first step towards restoring normalcy which broke in 2004. The Minister referred to the UN given by buried the Cordoba Declaration, agreements sealed under the Tripartite Forum with the previous Socialist government that do not meet the current PP government. Moreover the text-to rise to the General Assembly in December, acknowledged the validity of the 1984 Brussels Declaration, which pledged Madrid and London to negotiate the sovereignty of the Rock, and other UN resolutions. As has been happening since 1965 without interruption, United Nations recommends in this article on Spain and the United Kingdom to resolve their dispute about the sovereignty of Gibraltar through bilateral negotiations, stalled by the British since 2002. The main novelties introduced the draft resolution this year are, from the standpoint of the Spanish Government, the following. First, London has agreed to refine the reference to the need for the final settlement eventually reached Spain and the United Kingdom consider the interests and aspirations of Gibraltar that are consistent with international law, said the minister. García-Margallo believes that thanks to this shade turns to the situation prior to 2004, when Spanish thesis prevailed regarding the decolonization of Gibraltar is needed to produce the principle of territorial integrity of Spain. In 2004, the socialist government that Britain accepted the text introdujese bilateral solution to the Gibraltar dispute should take into account the interests and aspirations of Gibraltar, which is not considered as a British colony for its high levels of autonomy and which could, in the future, declaring its independence from Britain. Spain also appreciates that the text of this year hold a reference to the various United Nations resolutions that constitute the doctrine on the decolonization of Gibraltar, which provide, among other things, that the colonial situation in Gibraltar destroy the territorial integrity of Spain. The resolution takes note of desire to UK to continue with the Tripartite Forum for Dialogue, but also on the position that presumed dead Spanish that forum and would replace it with a new local cooperation mechanism in which representatives are represented Gibraltar and the Campo de Gibraltar. Finally, the text notes the efforts made by Spain and the United Kingdom to solve the current problems and commit to a new flexible format for dialogue between all relevant parties on the basis of ad hoc informal meetings with the order to find common solutions for mutual benefit and progress. Garcia-Margallo interprets these ad hoc meetings, the first meeting still negotiating Spain and the United Kingdom-related matters addressed fisheries and the environment, to be the current problems, and they would have to participate in both Gibraltar and representatives of the Board of Andalusia, which would break the asymmetry representing the Tripartite Forum. europasur.es/article/gibraltar/1640026/espana/se/congratula/la/onu/entierre/la/declaracion/cordoba.html
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 12:35:33 +0000
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