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 1971.

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63 versions · 1966–2025

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Conference and Meeting Services Declarations Decolonization Emigration Humanitarian Assistance Information Dissemination International Security Mass Media Mercenaries Military Bases Namibia National Liberation Movements Population Transfers Programmes of Action Public Opinion Self-Determination of Peoples Southern Rhodesia Territories Under Portuguese Administration Visiting Missions

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18 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms its resolution 1514 (XV) and all its other resolutions on the question of decolonization;

Notes 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 the Special Committee for its efforts to secure the complete and effective implementation of the Declaration;

Approves the report of the Special Committee covering its work durmg 1970,12 including the programme of work envisaged for 1971;

Urges all States, in particular the administering Powers, and the specialized a~encies and other organizations within the United Nations system to give effect to the recommendations contained in the report of the Special Committee for the speedy implementation of the Declaration and the relevant United Nations resolutions;

Reaffirms its recognition of the legitimacy of the struggle of the colonial peoples and peoples under alien domination to exercise their right to selfdetermination and independence by all the necessary means at their disposal and notes with satisfaction the progress made in the colonial Territories by the national liberation movements, both through their struggle and through reconstruction programmes;

Urges all States and the specialized agencies and other organizations within the United Nations system to provide, in consultation, as appropriate, with the Organization of African Unity, moral and material assistance to national liberation movements in the colonial Territories;

12 Ibid., Supplement No. 23 (A/8023/Rev.1).

Requests all States, as well as the specialized agencies and international institutions, to withhold assistance of any kind from the Governments of Portu~al and South Africa and from the illegal racist minority regime in Southern Rhodesia until they renounce their policy of colonial domination ·and racial discrimination;

Reiterates its declaration that the practice of using mercenaries against national liberation movements in the colonial Territories constitutes a criminal act and calls upon all States to take the necessary measures to prevent the recruitment, financing and training of mercenaries in their territory and to prohibit their nationals from serving as mercenaries;

Requests the colonial Powers to withdraw immediately and unconditioµally their military bases and installations from colonial Territories and to refrain from establishing new ones;

Condemns the policies, pursued by certain colonial Powers in the Territories under their domination, of imposing non-representative regimes and constitutions, strenithening the position of foreign economic and other interests, misleadinJ world public opinion and encouraging the systematic influx of foreign immigrants while evicting, displacing and transferring the indigenous inhabitants to other areas, and calls upon those Powers to desist forthwith from such policies;

Requests the. Special Committee to continue to seek suitable means for the immediate and full implementation of the Declaration in all Territories which have not yet attained independence and, in particular, to formulate specific proposals for the elimination of the remaining manifestations of colonialism, taking

fully into account the relevant provisions of the programme of action for the full implementation of the Declaration;

Requests the Special Committee to make concrete suggestions which could assist the Security Council in considering appropriate measures under the Charter of the United Nations with regard to developments in colonial Territories which are likely to threaten international peace and security, and recommends that the Security Council take such suggestions

fully into consideration;

Requests the Special Committee to continue to examine the compliance of Member States with the Declaration and with other relevant resolutions on the question of decolonization, particularly those relating to the Territories under Portuguese domination, Namibia and Southern Rhodesia, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its twenty-sixth session;

Requests the Special Committee to continue 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 and without delay their right to self-determination and independence;

Calls upon the administering Powers to cooperate fully with the Special Committee by permitting the access of visiting groups to the colonial Territories in order to secure first-hand information concerning the Territories and to ascertain the wishes and aspirations of the inhabitants of those Territories under their administration;

Requests the Secretary-General, having regard to the suggestions of the Special Committee, to con- General Anernbly-Twenty-fifth Seuion

tinue to take concrete measures through all the media at his disposal, including publications, radio and television, to give widespread and continuous publicity to the work of the United Nations in the field of decolonization, to the situation in the colonial Territories and to the continuing struggle for liberation being waged by the colonial peoples;

Requests Member States, in particular the administering Powers, to co-operate with the Secretary- General in promoting the large-scale dissemination of information on the work of the United Nations in the implementation of the Declaration;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Special Committee with the facilities and personnel necessary for the implementation of the present resolution as well as the various resolutions relating to the question of decolonization adopted by the General Assembly and the Special Committee.

14 December 1970.

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