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Bossano puts Gib's case at UN seminar
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At the UN seminar on decolonisation in Ecuador, JOE BOSSANO said Gibraltar had been included in the list of colonies of the United Kingdom, its administering Power, when the list was created in 1946.
“The international order that the UN Charter created in the context of colonialism was to redefine the status and the role of the former colonial Powers,” he stated. In order to bring that about, the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories had to exercise their inalienable human right to self-determination in deciding their future status.
He went on to say that the people of Gibraltar did not wish to pass under the sovereignty of Spain and that Gibraltar’s sovereignty was not a matter for negotiation between the United Kingdom and Spain. “This continues to be the position today,” he said.
He also stated that the “Committee has the independence granted to it by its mandate to take a proactive role. It is expected to look at what stage in the process of decolonization each Territory is, on a case-by-case basis.” He further noted that “no progress can or will be made unless the Committee identifies the requirements that need to be achieved by each Territory in what was always intended to be a progressive development from colonial rule to self-rule”.
07-06-12
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