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Casemates, Thursday 4 October 2001 a demonstration attended by 12,000 people (police estimate) and all current elected members of the House of Assembly.
We, the undersigned, being all the elected Members of the House of
Assembly of Gibraltar, declare and endorse the following propositions,
which unite and reflect the views of the overwhelming majority of the
people of Gibraltar,
1. The people of Gibraltar will never, ever, compromise or give up our
inalienable right to self-determination, that is, the right to decide
our future in our land.
2. The people of Gibraltar will never compromise or give up our
sovereignty, not for good relations with anybody and not for economic
benefits either.
3. The people of Gibraltar will not compromise our right to
self-determination, still less sovereignty, in exchange for respect
for rights which are ours anyway, and which others should be made to
respect unconditionally.
AND WE
a. CALL UPON Her Majesty's Government to honour, respect and uphold
our EU rights by ensuring that we participate in all EC and EU
measures in the same manner and to the same extent as all other
citizens and territories of the European Union AND WE CONDEMN Her
Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom for capitulating under
pressure to the suspension of Gibraltar from the EU Single Skies
measures, and the Government of the Kingdom of Spain for demanding it.
b. REAFFIRM that Gibraltar wants good, neighbourly, European relations
with Spain based on reasonable dialogue and mutual respect. Spain is
obliged to respect our EU and other rights.
c. ASSERT that Gibraltar belongs to the people of Gibraltar and is
neither Spain's to claim, nor Britain's to give away.
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