United Nations A/RES/60/116 General Assembly Distr.: General 18 January 2006 Sixtieth session Agenda item 26 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2005 [on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) (A/60/472)] 60/116. 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 Tokelau, 1 Recalling General Assembly 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 NonSelf-Governing Territories, in particular Assembly resolution 59/133 of 10 December 2004, 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, Recalling the inauguration in 1999 of a national legislative body, the General Fono, based on village elections by universal adult suffrage and the assumption by that body in June 2003 of full responsibility for the Tokelau budget, Recalling also the report of the United Nations mission dispatched in August 2002 to Tokelau at the invitation of the Government of New Zealand and the representatives of Tokelau, 2 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 _______________ 1 2 05-49456 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/60/23), chap. X. A/AC.109/2002/31.