United Nations
A/RES/61/130
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 January 2007
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 39
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 14 December 2006
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/61/415)]
61/130. 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, the
most recent of which was resolution 60/119 of 8 December 2005, as well as the
relevant resolutions of the Security Council,
Bearing in mind its resolution 55/146 of 8 December 2000, by which it declared
the period 2001–2010 the Second International Decade for the Eradication of
Colonialism, and the need to examine ways to ascertain the wishes of the peoples of
the Non-Self-Governing Territories on the basis of resolution 1514 (XV) and other
relevant resolutions on decolonization,
Welcoming the Plan of Implementation of the Decolonization Mandate 2006–
2007, 2 which organizes the actions of the decolonization mandate to be carried out by
the wider United Nations system,
Recognizing that the eradication of colonialism has been one of the priorities of
the United Nations and continues to be one of its priorities for the decade that began
in 2001,
Reconfirming the need to take measures to eliminate colonialism by 2010, as
called for in its resolution 55/146,
Reiterating its conviction of the need for the eradication of colonialism, as well
as racial discrimination and violations of basic human rights,
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/61/23).
A/60/853-E/2006/75, annex.