A
UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/49/47
9 February 1995
Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 18
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/49/615)]
49/47.
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 its resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, containing the
Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples,
Cognizant of the three options on future status for Non-Self-Governing
Territories contained in Principle VI of the annex to its resolution 1541 (XV)
of 15 December 1960,
Noting with appreciation that for the first time Tokelau came together
as one people and nation to speak to the United Nations Visiting Mission, in
order to address the question of Tokelau’s act of self-determination,
Aware of the special problems facing Tokelau by virtue of its isolation,
small size, limited resources and lack of infrastructure,
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