A/RES/58/108 A-B
United Nations
Distr.: General
17 December 2003
General Assembly
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 19
Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/58/480)]
58/108. 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
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, 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 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 fiftyseventh session on the individual Territories covered by the present resolution,
Recognizing that in the decolonization process there is no alternative to the
principle of self-determination as enunciated by the General Assembly in its
resolutions 1514 (XV), 1541 (XV) and other resolutions,
Recognizing also 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), 1541 (XV) and other resolutions of
the General Assembly,
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1
A/58/23 (Part II), chap. IX. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth
Session, Supplement No. 23.
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