United Nations
A/RES/67/130
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 January 2013
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 60
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2012
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/67/431)]
67/130. Question of New Caledonia
The General Assembly,
Having considered the question of New Caledonia,
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 2012 relating to New
Caledonia, 1
Reaffirming the right of peoples to self-determination as enshrined in the
Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling its resolutions 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960 and 1541 (XV) of
15 December 1960,
Noting the importance of the positive measures being pursued in New
Caledonia by the French authorities, in cooperation with all sectors of the
population, to promote political, economic and social development in the Territory,
including measures in the area of environmental protection and action with respect
to drug abuse and trafficking, in order to provide a framework for its peaceful
progress to self-determination,
Noting also, in this context, the importance of equitable economic and social
development, as well as continued dialogue among the parties involved in New
Caledonia in the preparation of the act of self-determination of New Caledonia,
Taking note of the report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous
peoples on the situation of Kanak people in New Caledonia, submitted to the Human
Rights Council at its eighteenth session, held from 12 to 30 September and on
21 October 2011, 2 following his visit to the Territory in February 2011,
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1
Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 23 and corrigendum
(A/67/23 and Corr.1), chap. VIII.
2
A/HRC/18/35/Add.6, annex.
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