A/RES/69/164
United Nations
Distr.: General
10 February 2015
General Assembly
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 67
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2014
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/69/487)]
69/164. Universal realization of the right of peoples
to self-determination
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the importance, for the effective guarantee and observance of
human rights, of the universal realization of the right of peoples to selfdetermination enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and embodied in the
International Covenants on Human Rights, 1 as well as in the Declaration on the
Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples contained in General
Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960,
Welcoming the progressive exercise of the right to self-determination by
peoples under colonial, foreign or alien occupation and their emergence into
sovereign statehood and independence,
Deeply concerned at the continuation of acts or threats of foreign military
intervention and occupation that are threatening to suppress, or have already
suppressed, the right to self-determination of peoples and nations,
Expressing grave concern that, as a consequence of the persistence of such
actions, millions of people have been and are being uprooted from their homes as
refugees and displaced persons, and emphasizing the urgent need for concerted
international action to alleviate their condition,
Recalling the relevant resolutions regarding the violation of the right of
peoples to self-determination and other human rights as a result of foreign military
intervention, aggression and occupation, adopted by the Commission on Human
Rights at its sixty-first 2 and previous sessions,
Reaffirming its previous resolutions on the universal realization of the right of
peoples to self-determination, including resolution 68/153 of 18 December 2013,
Reaffirming also its resolution 55/2 of 8 September 2000, containing the
United Nations Millennium Declaration, and recalling its resolution 60/1 of
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Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 3 and corrigenda
(E/2005/23 and Corr.1 and 2), chap. II, sect. A.
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