Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1967.

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63 versions · 1966–2025

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Reaffirms its resolutions 1514 (XV), 1654 (XVI), 1810 (XVII), 1956 (XVIII) and 2105 (XX);

No tes with satisfaction the work accomplished by the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of. Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and expresses its appreciation to that Committee for its efforts to secure the implementation of the Declaration;

Approves the report of the Special Committee covering its work during 1966 and again invites the administering Powers to implement the recommendations contained therein;

Approves the action taken and envisaged by the Special Committee for the year 1967 with respect to the list oí Territories to which the Declaration applies;

Approves the programme of work envisaged by the Special Committee during 1967, including the sending of visiting missions and the possibility of holding a series oí meetings away from Headquarters, and requests the administering Powers to allow visiting missions to be sent to the Territories under their administration ;

Declares that the continuation oí colonial rule threatens international peace and security and that the practice oí apartheid, as also ali forms oí racial discrimination, constitutes a crime against humanity;

Reaffirms its recognition of the legitimacy oí the struggle of the peoples under colonial rule to exercise

their right to self-determination and independence and urges all States to provide material and moral assistance to the national liberation movements in colonial Territories;

Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and other international relief organizations and the specialized agencies concerned to increase their economic, social and humanitarian assistance to the refugees from those Territories;

Requests all States, directly and through action in the international institutions of which they are members, including the specialized agencies, to withhold assistance of any kind to the Governments of Portugal and South Africa and to the illegal racist minority régime of Southern Rhodesia until they renounce their policy of racial discrimination and colonial domination;

Draws the attention of all States to the grave consequences of the formation in the southern part of Africa of an entente between the Governments of South Africa and Portugal and the illegal :racist minority régime of Southern Rhodesia, and calls upon all States to withhold any support or assistance to this entente, whose existence and activities run counter to the interests of international peace and security;

Requests the colonial Powers to dismantle their military bases and installations in colonial Territories and to refrain from establishing new ones and from using those that still exist to interfere with the liberation of the peoples in colonial Territories in the exercise of their legitimate rights to freedom and independence;

Condemns the activities of those foreign financial and economic interests in colonial Territories, in particular in South W est Africa, Southern Rhodesia and the Territories under Portuguese domination, which support colonial régimes and thus constitute a serious obstacle to the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, and calls upon the Governments concerned to take the necessary measures to put an end to those activities;

Condemns the policies, pursued by certain administering Powers in the Territories under their domination, of imposing non-representative régimes and constitutions, strengthening the position of foreign financia! and economic interests, misleading world public opinion and encouraging the systematic influx of foreign immigrants while displacing, deporting and transferring the indigenous inhabitants to other areas, and calls upon those Powers to desist from such manceuvres;

Requests the Special Committee to apprise the Security Council of developments in any Territory examined by the Committee which may threaten international peace and security and to make any concrete suggestions which may assist the Council in considering appropriate measures under the Charter of the United N ations;

Invites the Special Committee, whenever it considers it proper and appropriate, to recommend a deadline for the accession to independence of each Territory in accordance with the wishes of the people and the provisions of the Declaration ;

Invites the Special Committee to pay particular attention to the small Territories and to recommend to the General Assembly the most appropriate methods and also the steps to be taken to enable the populations of those Territories to exercise fully the right to selfdetermination and independence ;

Requests the Special Committee to continue to perform its tasks and to seek suitable means for the immediate and full implementation of the Declaration in all Territories which have not yet attained independence;

Requests the Secretary-General to promote, through the various organs and agencies of the United N ations, the continuous and large-scale publicizing of the Declaration and of the work of the Special Committee, in order that world opirtion may be sufficiently

aware of the situation in the colonial Territories and of the continuing struggle for liberation waged by the colonial peoples ;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide the Special Committee with all the financing and facilities necessary for the implementation of its mandate;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its twenty-second session an item entitled "Activities of foreign economic and other interests which are impeding the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Southern Rhodesia, South W est Africa and Territories under Portuguese domination and in ali other Territories under colonial domination".

13 December 1966.

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