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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/91
24 January 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 18
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/54/L.50 and Add.1)]
54/91.
Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to
Colonial Countries and Peoples
The General Assembly,
Having examined the report of the Special Committee with regard to the Implementation of the
Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples,1
Recalling its resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, containing the Declaration on the Granting
of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, and all its subsequent resolutions concerning the
implementation of the Declaration, most recently resolution 53/68 of 3 December 1998, as well as the relevant
resolutions of the Security Council,
Recognizing that the eradication of colonialism is one of the priorities of the Organization for the decade
that began in 1990,
Reconfirming the need to take measures to eliminate colonialism by 2000, as called for in its resolution
43/47 of 22 November 1988,
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A/54/23 (Parts I–III). For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fourth
Session, Supplement No. 23.
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