A/RES/69/99
United Nations
Distr.: General
16 December 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 57
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 5 December 2014
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/69/460)]
69/99.
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-General1 and the report of
the Economic and Social Council2 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 2014 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 2012/22 of 26 July 2012 and 2013/43 of 25 July 2013,
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,
Conscious of the need to facilitate the implementation of the Declaration on
the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, contained in
resolution 1514 (XV),
Noting that the large majority of the remaining Non-Self-Governing Territories
are small island Territories,
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1
A/69/66.
E/2014/11.
3
Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/69/23), chap. VI.
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