The painting commemorates an event in that same square in 1963, after chief minister Sir Joshua Hassan and Peter Isola returned from meetings with the UN Committee, in New York, when they declared that Gibraltar would stay British.
In 1963 and 1964 he went to the United Nations together with Chief Minister Sir Joshua Hassan to oppose Spain's attempt to obtain sovereignty over Gibraltar using decolonisation as an instrument to achieve its ends.
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He succeeded Maurice Xiberras as leader of the Democratic Party of British Gibraltar (DPBG), a political party in Gibraltar.
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