ABSTRACT
This chapter purposes to forward the position of the United Nations in the case of Gibraltar. In 1963, Bulgaria and Cambodia requested the inclusion of the case in the agenda of the Special Committee on Decolonization, a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly in charge of the enforcement of the decolonization process. During the 1960s and early 1970s, actions taken by the UN were aimed at developing and applying a legal framework based on the principle of self-determination with the goal of putting an end to colonial situations. Moreover, despite the usual practice that consists of identifying a colonial population and people, the UN never proclaimed the inhabitants of Gibraltar as a people. The select committee constituted by the Gibraltar House of Assembly that drafted the 2001 project strove to bring about a proposal that would end the colonial status of Gibraltar in an acceptable way for the population of the territory and would result in self-determination.
