A/RES/72/96
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)]
72/96.
Question of American Samoa
The General Assembly,
Having considered the question of American Samoa and examined the relevant
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, 1
Taking note of the working paper prepared by the Secretariat on American
Samoa 2 and other relevant information,
Recognizing that all available options for self-determination of the Territory are
valid as long as they are in accordance with the freely expressed wish es of the people
of American Samoa and in conformity with the clearly defined principles contained
in General Assembly resolutions 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, 1541 (XV) of
15 December 1960 and other resolutions of the Assembly,
Expressing concern that 57 years after the adoption of the Declaration on the
Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, 3 there still remain
17 Non-Self-Governing Territories, including American Samoa,
Conscious of the importance of continuing the effective implementation of the
Declaration, taking into account the target set by the United Nations to eradicate
colonialism by 2020 and the plans of action for the Second 4 and Third International
Decades for the Eradication of Colonialism,
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/72/23),
chap. X.
A/AC.109/2017/1.
Resolution 1514 (XV).
A/56/61, annex.
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