Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples

A/RES/2326(XXII)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1968.

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63 versions · 1966–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/105

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2025	A/RES/80/105	Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples	1,693	95%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/114	Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples	1,683	99%Compare
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15 subjects

Apartheid Conferences Foreign Interests Human Rights Immigration Information Dissemination Military Bases Participants Population Transfers Portugal Racial Discrimination Sanctions Self-Determination of Peoples South Africa Southern Rhodesia

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22 operative paragraphs

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Reaffirms its resolutions 1514 (XV). 1654 (XVI), 1810 (XVII), 1956 (XVIII), 1970 (XVIII), 2105 (XX) and 2189 (XXI);

Notes with satisfaction the work accomplished by the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and expresses its appreciation to the Special Committee for its efforts to secure the complete and effective implementation of the Declaration;

Approves the report of the Special Committee covering its work during 1967 and urges the administering Powers to give effect to the recommendations contained therein and to take all other necessary steps for the implementation of the Declaration and the relevant United Nations resolutions;

Approves the programme of work envisaged hy the Special Committee during 1968, including the sending of visiting missions. the studv of military activities and arrangements by colonial Powers in Territories under their administration which might he impeding the implementation of the Declaration, and the review of the list of Territories to which the Declaration applies;

Rrit,rat,s its declaration that the continuation of colonial rule threatens international peace and security and that the practice of apartheid and all forms of racial discrimination constitute a crime against humanity ;

Reaffirms its recognition of the legitimacy of the struggle of the colonial peoples to exercise their right to self-determination and independence and notes with satisfaction the progress made in the colonial Territories by the national liberation movements, both through their struggle and through reconstruction programmes, and urges all States to provide moral and material assistance to them ;

Expresses its appreciation to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the specialized ~encies concerned and other international relief organizations for the help they have so far given, and requests them to increase their· economic, social and humanitarian assistance to the refugees from Territories under colonial domination ;

Requests all States, directly and through action in the international institutions of which they are members, including the specialized agencies, to withhold assistance of any kind from the Governments of Portugal and South Africa and from the illegal racist minority regime of Southern Rhodesia until they renounce their policy of colonial domination and racial discrimination ;

Draws the attention of all States to the grave consequences of the development in southern Africa of the entente between the Governments of South Africa and Portugal and the illegal racist minority regime of Southern Rhodesia, the activities of which run counter to the interests of international peace and security, and calls upon all States, particularly the main trading partners of the entente, to withhold any support or assistance to the members of the entente ;

Requests the colonial Powers to dismantle their military bases and installations in colonial Territories and to refrain from establishing new ones. and from using those that still exist to interfere with the liberation of the peoples in colonial Territories in the exercise of their legitimate rights to freedom and independence ;

Once again condemns the policies, pursued by certain administering Powers in the Territories under their domination, of imposing non-representative regimes and constitutions, strengthening the position of foreign economic and other interests, misleading world public opinion and encouraging the systematic influx of foreign immigrants while displacing, deporting and transferring the indigenous inhabitants to other areas, and calls upon those Powers to desist from such mancruvres ;

Requests the Special Committee to continue to perform its task and to seek suitable means for the immediate and ,full implementation of the Declaration in all Territories which have not yet attained independence;

Requests the Special Committee to make concrete suggestions with a view to assisting the Security Council in considering appropriate measures under the Charter of the United Nations with regard to developments in colonial Territor.ies which are likely to threaten international peace and security, and recommends the Council to take such suggestions fully into consideration ;

Imtes the Special Committee, whenever it considers it proper and appropriate, to recommend a deadline for the accession to independence of each Territory RNOlntiom adopted wlthont referenee to a Main Committee I

in accordance with the wiahes of the people and the provisions of the Declaration;

Requests the Special Committee, in the performance of its tasks, to take account of the special activities envisaged in connexion with the International Year for Human Rights and in particular to particii:-te, as it considers appropriate, in the International Conference on Human Rights to be held at Teheran in April 1968;

Requests the Special Committee to examine the compliance of Member States with the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and other relevant resolutions on the question of decolonization, particularly those relating to the Territories under Portuguese domination, Southern Rhodesia and South West Africa, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its twenty-third session;

Invites the Special Committee to pay particular attention to the small Territories and to recommend to the General Assembly the most appropriate methodt and also the steps to be taken to enable the populations of those Territories to exercise fully their right to selfdetermination and independence ;

Urges the administering Powers to co-operate with the Special Committee by permitting access to the colonial Territories ·by visiting missions, in accordance with decisions previously taken by the General Assembly and by the Special Committee ;

Requests the Special Committee to consider and submit recommendations to the General Assembly at its twenty-third session regarding the holdini( early in 1969 of a special conference of representatives of colonial peoples for the purpose, inter alia, of considering the most effective means by which the international community can intensify its assistance to them in their efforts to achieve self-determination, freedom and independence;

Requests the Secretary-General to take concrete measures through all the media at his disposal, including publications, radio and television, to give effect to the provisions of its resolutions 2105 (XX), 2189 (XXI), 2262 (XXII), 2270 (XXII) and 2288

(XXII) concerning the widespread and continuous publicizing of the work of the United Nations in the field of decolonization, of the situation in the colonial Territories and of the continuing struggle for liberation being waged by the colonial peoples ;

Requests the administering Powers to co-operate with the Secretary-General in promoting the large-acale dissemination of information on the work of the United Nations in the implementation of the Declaration;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide all the finn~cing ;md facilities necessary for the implementation of the present resolution.

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16 Decen1ber 196'!.

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