Editing Self-determination (section)

=== Gibraltar ===
{{Main|Status of Gibraltar}}

[[File:Gibraltar National Day 027 (9719742224) (2).jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Gibraltar National Day, September 2013]]

The right to self-determination is referred to in the pre-amble of Chapter 1 of the [[Gibraltar Constitution Order 2006|Gibraltar constitution]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi/constitution/Gibraltar_Constitution_Order_2006.pdf |title=The Gibraltar Constitution Order 2006 |publisher=Gibraltarlaws.gov.gi |date=2006-12-14 |access-date=2013-07-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115055815/http://www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi/constitution/Gibraltar_Constitution_Order_2006.pdf |archive-date=2012-11-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and, since the United Kingdom also gave assurances that the right to self-determination of Gibraltarians would be respected in any transfer of sovereignty over the territory, is a factor in the dispute with Spain over the territory.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://law.uoregon.edu/org/oril/docs/9-1/Leathley.pdf |title=Gibraltar's Quest for Self-Determination: A Critique of Gibraltar's New Constitution |publisher=OREGON REVIEW OF INT’L LAW [Vol. 9, 2007] |year=2007 |access-date=2013-07-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117100124/http://law.uoregon.edu/org/oril//docs/9-1/Leathley.pdf |archive-date=2013-01-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The impact of the right to self-determination of Gibraltarians was seen in the [[2002 Gibraltar sovereignty referendum]], where Gibraltarian voters overwhelmingly rejected a plan to share sovereignty over Gibraltar between the UK and Spain. However, the UK government differs with the Gibraltarian government in that it considers Gibraltarian self-determination to be limited by the [[Treaty of Utrecht]], which prevents Gibraltar achieving independence without the agreement of Spain, a position that the Gibraltarian government does not accept.<ref>[http://www.gbc.gi/upload/pdf/NewGibraltarConstitution.pdf Despatch. Gibraltar Constitution Order 2006] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131107060915/http://gbc.gi/upload/pdf/NewGibraltarConstitution.pdf |date=2013-11-07 }}, section 5</ref><ref name="Fordham">{{Cite journal |last=Lincoln |first=Simon J.  |date=1994 |title=The Legal Status of Gibraltar: Whose Rock is it Anyway? |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/144226179.pdf |journal=Fordham International Law Journal |volume=18 |issue=1 |page=322}}</ref>

The Spanish government denies that Gibraltarians have the right to self-determination, considering them to be "an artificial population without any genuine autonomy" and not "indigenous".<ref name="Self-Determination of Peoples: A Legal Reappraisal">{{cite book|author=Antonio Cassese|title=Self-Determination of Peoples: A Legal Reappraisal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IVDtjzY3r2gC&q=Gibraltar+self-determination&pg=PA206|year=1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn= 9780521637527|page=209}}</ref> However, the [[Partido Andalucista]] has agreed to recognise the right to self-determination of Gibraltarians.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=30023 |title=Andalusian nationalists say 'yes' to Gibraltar's self-determination |publisher=Gibraltar Chronicle |date=11 July 2013 |access-date=11 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413144944/http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=30023 |archive-date=13 April 2014 }}</ref>