A/RES/60/117 A-B
United Nations
Distr.: General
18 January 2006
General Assembly
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 26
Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2005
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/60/472)]
60/117. Questions of American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda,
the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guam,
Montserrat, Pitcairn, Saint Helena, the Turks and
Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands
A
GENERAL
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, Saint 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 all resolutions and decisions of the United Nations relating to those
Territories, including, in particular, the resolutions adopted by the General
Assembly at its fifty-ninth session on the individual Territories covered by the
present resolution,
Recognizing that all available options for self-determination of the Territories
are valid as long as they are in accordance with the freely expressed wishes of the
peoples concerned and in conformity with the clearly defined principles contained
in resolutions 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, 1541 (XV) of 15 December 1960
and other resolutions of the Assembly,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 1541 (XV), containing the principles
that should guide Member States in determining whether or not an obligation exists
to transmit the information called for under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United
Nations,
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/60/23), chap. IX.