United Nations
A/RES/65/114
General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 January 2011
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 59
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 10 December 2010
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/65/430)]
65/114. 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 for 2010 relating to Tokelau, 1
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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 Non-SelfGoverning Territories, in particular General Assembly resolution 64/103 of
10 December 2009,
Noting with appreciation the continuing exemplary cooperation of New Zealand
as the administering Power with regard to the work of the Special Committee
relating to Tokelau and its readiness to permit access by United Nations visiting
missions to the Territory,
Noting also with appreciation the collaborative contribution to the development
of Tokelau by New Zealand and the specialized agencies and other organizations of
the United Nations system, in particular the United Nations Development Programme,
Noting that, as a small island Territory, Tokelau exemplifies the situation of
most remaining Non-Self-Governing Territories and that, as a case study pointing to
successful cooperation for decolonization, Tokelau has wider significance for the
United Nations as it seeks to complete its work in decolonization,
Recalling that New Zealand and Tokelau signed in November 2003 a
document entitled “Joint statement of the principles of partnership”, which sets out
the rights and responsibilities of the two partners,
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 23 and corrigendum
(A/65/23 and Corr.1), chap. X.
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