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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/50/39
12 February 1996
Fiftieth session
Agenda item 18
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/50/L.45 and Add.1)]
50/39.
Implementation of the Declaration on the
Granting of Independence to Colonial
Countries and Peoples
The General Assembly,
Having examined 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 its subsequent resolutions concerning the implementation of the
Declaration, most recently resolution 49/89 of 16 December 1994, as well as
the relevant resolutions of the Security Council,
Recognizing that the eradication of colonialism is one of the priorities
of the Organization for the decade that began in 1990,
Deeply conscious of the need to take, speedily, measures to eliminate
the last vestiges of colonialism by the year 2000, as called for in its
resolution 43/47 of 22 November 1988,
Reiterating its conviction of the need for the elimination of
colonialism, as well as of the need for the total eradication of racial
discrimination and violations of basic human rights,
1/
96-76573
A/50/23 (Parts I-VII).
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