A/RES/72/93
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 December 2017
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 60
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 7 December 2017
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/72/454)]
72/93.
Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence
to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies and
the international institutions associated with the United Nations
The General Assembly,
Having considered the item entitled “Implementation of the Declaration on the
Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized
agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations”,
Having also considered the report of the Secretary-General 1 and the report of
the Economic and Social Council 2 on the item,
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 2017 relating to the item, 3
Recalling its resolutions 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960 and 1541 (XV) of
15 December 1960 and the resolutions of the Special Committee, as well as other
relevant resolutions and decisions, including, in particular, Economic and Social
Council resolutions 2015/16 of 20 July 2015 and 2016/20 of 27 July 2016,
Bearing in mind the relevant provisions of the final documents of the
successive Conferences of Heads of State or Government of Non -Aligned Countries
and of the resolutions adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government
of the African Union, the Pacific Islands Forum and the Caribbean Community,
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17-22125 (E)
A/72/69.
E/2017/59.
Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/72/23),
chap. VII.
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