A/RES/57/138 A-B
United Nations
Distr.: General
26 February 2003
General Assembly
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 19
Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/57/528)]
57/138. Questions of American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, the
British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guam,
Montserrat, Pitcairn, St. Helena, the Turks and Caicos
Islands and the United States Virgin Islands
A
G ENERAL
The General Assembly,
Having considered the questions of the Non-Self-Governing Territories of
American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman
Islands, Guam, Montserrat, Pitcairn, St. Helena, the Turks and Caicos Islands and
the United States Virgin Islands, hereinafter referred to as “the Territories”,
Having 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, 1
Recalling its resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, containing the
Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, and
all resolutions and decisions of the United Nations relating to those Territories,
including, in particular, the resolutions adopted by the General Assembly at its fiftysixth session on the individual Territories covered by the present resolution,
Recognizing that the specific characteristics and the sentiments of the peoples
of the Territories require flexible, practical and innovative approaches to the options
of self-determination, without any prejudice to territorial size, geographical
location, size of population or natural resources,
Recalling its resolution 1541 (XV) of 15 December 1960, containing the
principles that should guide Member States in determining whether or not an
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1
A/57/23 (Part II), chap. X. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-seventh
Session, Supplement No. 23.
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