ABSTRACT
In accordance with the most recent General Assembly consensus on Gibraltar, British and Spanish representatives met in Madrid on 30-31 May 1974 for talks which were described by the Foreign Office in London as ‘exploratory and non-committal’. The Madrid meeting had been proposed by the British Government on 11 April but few could have entertained serious hopes that a positive outcome would emerge as there was nothing to indicate that the attitudes of either party had changed since the breakdown of the last round of talks in 1973.
