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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/53/66
24 February 1999
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 18
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/53/594)]
53/66.
Question of Tokelau
The General Assembly,
Having considered the question of Tokelau,
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
relating to the question of Tokelau,1
Recalling the solemn declaration on the future status of Tokelau, delivered by the Ulu-o-Tokelau (the
highest authority on Tokelau) on 30 July 1994, that an act of self-determination in Tokelau is now under
active consideration, together with the constitution of a self-governing Tokelau, and that the present
preference of Tokelau is for a status of free association with New Zealand,
Recalling also 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, General Assembly resolution 52/77
of 10 December 1997,
1
A/53/23 (Part VII), chap. XI. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-third
Session, Supplement No. 23.
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