United Nations
A/RES/67/265
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 August 2013
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 60
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 May 2013
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/67/L.56/Rev.1 and Add.1)]
67/265. Self-determination of French Polynesia
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Charter of the United Nations, its resolution 1514 (XV) of
14 December 1960 containing the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to
Colonial Countries and Peoples and its resolution 1541 (XV) of 15 December 1960,
Taking into account articles 3 and 4 of the United Nations Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples 1 regarding the right of self-determination and the
recommendation of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at its eleventh
session on the implementation of basic fundamental human rights articulated in the
Declaration, particularly the right to self-determination, 2
Taking note of the resolution of the Assembly of French Polynesia, adopted in
Papeete, Tahiti, on 18 August 2011, in which it expressed its will that French
Polynesia be reinscribed on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing
Territories, and the decision taken by the Council of Ministers of the Government of
French Polynesia on 15 June 2011 to call for the reinscription,
Welcoming the decision of the Heads of State or Government of Pacific States
taken at the second “Engaging with the Pacific” regional meeting, held in Nadi, Fiji,
on 1 and 2 September 2011, to support the reinscription of French Polynesia on the
United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories,
Taking note of the communiqué of the second Polynesian Leaders Group
meeting, held in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, on 25 August 2012, in which the Group
affirmed its support for the reinscription of French Polynesia on the United Nations
list of Non-Self-Governing Territories,
Welcoming the decisions of the Pacific Islands Forum, taken at its meetings held
in Apia, from 5 to 7 August 2004, Auckland, New Zealand, on 7 and 8 September 2011,
and Rarotonga, Cook Islands, from 28 to 30 August 2012, to support the principle of
the right to self-determination of the people of French Polynesia,
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Resolution 61/295, annex.
E/2012/43, para. 39.
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