A/RES/72/101
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 December 2017
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 62
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 7 December 2017
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/72/456)]
72/101.
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 2017 relating to French
Polynesia, 1
Taking note of the working paper prepared by the Secretariat on French
Polynesia 2 and other relevant information,
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 General Assembly 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 it 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 Territor y, to
transmit information on French Polynesia,
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17-22134 (E)
Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/72/23),
chap. IX.
A/AC.109/2017/7.
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