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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/145
10 February 1997
Fifty-first session
Agenda item 19
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/51/588)]
51/145.
Question of Tokelau
The General Assembly,
Having considered the question of Tokelau,
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 relating to the
question of Tokelau,1
Recalling the solemn declaration on the future status of Tokelau
delivered by the Ulu-o-Tokelau (the highest authority on Tokelau) on 30 July
1994, that an act of self-determination in Tokelau is now under active
consideration, together with the constitution of a self-governing Tokelau, and
that the present preference of Tokelau is for a status of free association
with New Zealand,
Recalling also the emphasis placed in the solemn declaration on the
terms of Tokelau's intended free association relationship with New Zealand,
including the expectation that the form of help Tokelau could continue to
expect from New Zealand in promoting the well-being of its people, besides its
external interests, would be clearly established in the framework of that
relationship,
Noting with appreciation the continuing exemplary cooperation of New
Zealand as the administering Power with the Special Committee relating to
1
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement
No. 23 (A/51/23), chap. XI.
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