A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/48/53 26 January 1994 Forty-eighth session Agenda item 18 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [without reference to a Main Committee (A/48/L.39 and Add.1)] 48/53. Dissemination of information on decolonization The General Assembly, Having examined the chapter of the report of the Situation with regard to the Implementation of Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and dissemination of information on decolonization and the United Nations in the field of decolonization, the Special Committee on the Declaration on the Peoples relating to the publicity for the work of 1/ Recalling its resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, containing the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, and other resolutions and decisions of the United Nations concerning the dissemination of information on decolonization, in particular General Assembly resolution 47/24 of 25 November 1992, Reiterating the importance of publicity as an instrument for furthering the aims of the Declaration, and mindful of the role of world public opinion in effectively assisting the peoples of the colonial Territories to achieve self-determination and independence, Aware of the importance of non-governmental organizations in the dissemination of information on decolonization, ____________ 1/ Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/48/23), chap. III. /...