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

A/RES/2465(XXIII)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1969.

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63 versions · 1966–2025

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

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
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
2023	A/RES/78/101	Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples	1,685	99%Compare
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5 subjects

Mercenaries National Liberation Movements Portugal Sanctions South Africa

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14 operative paragraphs

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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 1968, 15 including the programme of work envisaged by the Committee during 1969, and urges the administering Powers to give effect to the recommendations contained in that report for the speedy implementation of the Declaration and the relevant United Nations resolutions;

Reiterates 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-~etermination and independence, notes with sat1sfact10n the progress made in the colonial Territories by . the national liberation movements, both through the1r struggle and through reconstruction programmes, and urges all ' States to provide moral and material assistance to them;

Urg~s all States to comply strictly with the prbvisions of the various resolutions of the General Assembly and the Security Council concerning the colonial Territories, and in particular to give the necessary moral, political and material support to the peoples of those Territories in their legitimate struggle to achieve freedom and independence;

Requests all States, as well as the specialized agencies and international institutions, to withhold assistance of any kind from the Governments of Portugal and South Africa and from the illegal racist minority régime in Southern Rhodesia until they renounce their policy of colonial domination and racial discrimination;

Decla,res that the practice of using mercenaries against movements for national liberation and independence is punishable as a criminal act and that the mercenaries themselves are outlaws, and calls upan the Governments of all countries to enact legislation declaring the recruitment, financing and training of mercenaries in their territory to be a punishable offence and prohibiting their nationals from serving as mercenaries ;

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 conde-mns the policies, pursued by certain colonial Powers in the Territories under their domination, of imposing non-representative régimes 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 manreuvres ;

Requests the Special Committee to continue to perform its task and to seek suitable means for the immediate and full implementation of the Declaration 15 Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-third Session, Anne%es, addendum to agenda item 23 (A/7200/Rev.1).

in all Territories which have not yet attained indewidespread and continuous publicity to the work of the pendence;

U nited N ations in the field of decolonization, to the situation in the colonial Territories and to the continu-

Requests the Special Committee to make concrete suggestions which could assist the Security ing struggle for liberation being waged by the colonial peoples; Council in considering appropriate measures under the Charter of the United Nations with regard to develop-

Requests the administering Powers to co-operate ments in colonial Territories which are likely to with the Secretary-General in promoting the large-scale threaten international peace and security, and recomdissemination of information on the work of the United mends the Council to take such suggestions fully into N ations in the implementation of the Declaration; consideration;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide all the

Requests the Special Committee to continue to facilities necessary for the implementation of the examine the compliance of Member States with the present resolution. Declaration and with other relevant resolutions on the

G,meral. ,Assembly--,--Twenty-third Session

Tlze Preside11t of the General Assembly informed the S ecretary-Genera/16 that ALGERIA,

CAN ADA,

GHANA,

INDO- XESIA, 1foXGOLIA and TRIXIDAD A:-ID ToBAGo liad accePted the

invitatioa to ser,;e on the Preparators Committee for the Tenth Amri·uersary of the Declara/ion on the Granting of I11deprndence to Colonial C ountries anJ Peo ples established mrder paragráph 16 of the ab(Tl}e reso/11tion.

As a resu/t, the Preparatory Committee wil/ be composed of the fo/lowing 111 embcr Sta tes:

AFGHANISTAN,

ALGERIA, AUSTRALIA, BULGARIA, CANADA, ECUADOR, ETHIOPIA, GHANA, HONDURAS, IXDIA, INDONESIA, IRAN, IRAQ, hALY, IvoRY CoAsT, MADAGASCAR,

MALI,

MoNGOLlA,

NoRWAY,

PoLAND,

SIERRA LEONE,

SYRIA, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, TUNISIA, UNION OF SOVIET SocIALIST filPUBLICS,

UNITED KrNGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN lRELAND, UNITED filPUBLIC OF TAN- ZANIA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, VENEZUELA and YUGO- SLAVIA.

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