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UN
Secretary-General urges completion of global decolonization
process |
Source :
http://www.un.org
22 May 2007 – Strategies should be found for determining
the future of each of the world’s 16 remaining territories
that are not yet self-governing, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
told a United Nations seminar on decolonization in the
Caribbean today.
“Achieving self-government for the peoples of the world has
been one of the cardinal goals of the United Nations since
its inception,” Mr. Ban told the Special Committee on
Decolonization, which is meeting in St. George, Grenada, at
a regional seminar that coincides with the Week of
Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing
Territories.
In the statement, delivered by Freda Mackay of the
Department of Political Affairs (DPA), Mr. Ban recalled that
“under the Organization's auspices, nearly 750 million
people have benefited from the exercise of the right to
self-determination, and decolonization can truly be
considered a United Nations success story.”
The regional seminars are important part of completing this
decolonization process, Mr. Ban noted, because they provide
a forum for the two million people living in the remaining
territories to air their views about the unique problems
they face, and for direct communication between the Special
Committee, the representatives of the territories and the
administering countries. |
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As a result of
that kind of dialogue, he said, the Pacific island of
Tokelau will soon hold a second referendum on the option of
self-government in free association with New Zealand, and
other territories, some in the Caribbean, have also made
considerable progress in their constitutional, political,
economic and social development, moving a long way towards
self-government.
At the time of the UN’s creation in 1945, there were 72
non-self-governing territories. The
Special Committee was established by the General
Assembly in 1961, to further the application of the 1960
Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial
Countries and Peoples.
In 1963, the Assembly approved a list of 64 territories to
which the Declaration applied. Now, just 16 such territories
remain, with France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the
United States as administering powers.
The 16 remaining territories are Western Sahara, American
Samoa, Guam, New Caledonia, Pitcairn, Tokelau, Anguilla,
Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland
Islands (Malvinas), Gibraltar, Montserrat, Saint Helena,
Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin
Islands. |
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