A/RES/71/292
United Nations
Distr.: General
22 June 2017
General Assembly
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 87
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 June 2017
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/71/L.73 and Add.1)]
71/292. Request for an advisory opinion of the International
Court of Justice on the legal consequences of the
separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius
in 1965
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming that all peoples have an inalienable right to the exercise of their
sovereignty and the integrity of their national territory,
Recalling the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial
Countries and Peoples, contained in its resolution 151 4 (XV) of 14 December 1960,
and in particular paragraph 6 thereof, which states that any attempt aimed at the
partial or total disruption of the national unity and the territorial integrity of a
country is incompatible with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the
United Nations,
Recalling also its resolution 2066 (XX) of 16 December 1965, in which it
invited the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland to take effective measures with a view to the immediate and full
implementation of resolution 1514 (XV) and to take no action which would
dismember the Territory of Mauritius and violate its territorial integrity, and its
resolutions 2232 (XXI) of 20 December 1966 and 2357 (XXII) of 19 December 1967,
Bearing in mind its resolution 65/118 of 10 December 2010 on the fiftieth
anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial
Countries and Peoples, reiterating its view that it is incumbent on the United
Nations to continue to play an active role in the process of decolonization, and
noting that the process of decolonization is not yet complete,
Recalling its resolution 65/119 of 10 December 2010, in which it declared the
period 2011–2020 the Third International Decade for the Eradication of
Colonialism, and its resolution 71/122 of 6 December 2016, in which it called for
the immediate and full implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of
Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples,
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