A/RES/68/93
United Nations
Distr.: General
17 December 2013
General Assembly
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 60
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 11 December 2013
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/68/433)]
68/93.
Question of French Polynesia
The General Assembly,
Having considered the question of French Polynesia,
Having examined the chapter of the report of the Special Committee on the
Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of
Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples for 2013 relating to French
Polynesia, 1
Reaffirming the right of peoples to self-determination as enshrined in the
Charter of the United Nations and in accordance with all relevant resolutions,
including its resolutions 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960 and 1541 (XV) of
15 December 1960,
Recalling its resolution 67/265 of 17 May 2013, entitled “Self-determination
of French Polynesia”, in which the General Assembly affirmed the inalienable right
of the people of French Polynesia to self-determination and independence in
accordance with Chapter XI of the Charter and its resolution 1514 (XV), recognized
that French Polynesia remains a Non-Self-Governing Territory within the meaning
of the Charter and declared that an obligation exists under Article 73 e of the
Charter on the part of the Government of France, as the administering Power of the
Territory, to transmit information on French Polynesia,
Expressing concern that 53 years after the adoption of the Declaration on the
Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, 2 there still remain a
number of Non-Self-Governing Territories,
Recognizing that all available options for self-determination of the Territories
are valid as long as they are in accordance with the freely expressed wishes of the
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/68/23), chap. IX.
Resolution 1514 (XV).
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