It is therefore a means of colonizing and occupying territory and opposing peoples wishes.

Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of All Colonial Territories Fighting for Freedom, Independence and Human Rights

Reaffirming further that the natural resources are the heritage of the indigenous populations of the colonial and Non Self Governing Territories,

5. The Special Committee deplores the continued alienation of land in colonial and Non Self Governing Territories, particularly in the small island Territories of the Pacific and Caribbean regions, for military installations.

Since the adoption in 1960 of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, over 60 former colonial Territories had joined the comity of independent nations.

The British Overseas Territories Act, which came into force in 2002, grants the right to full British citizenship to all inhabitants of the Territories and formally abolishes the terms colony and dependent territory .

15. The colonization of indigenous territories has affected indigenous peoples in a number of ways.

8. Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of All Colonial Territories Fighting for Freedom, Independence and Human Rights

7. The Special Committee requests the Secretary General to continue to inform world public opinion of those military activities and arrangements in colonial and Non Self Governing Territories that constitute an obstacle to the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.

7. The Special Committee requests the Secretary General to continue to inform world public opinion of those military activities and arrangements in colonial and Non Self Governing Territories which constitute an obstacle to the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.

The United Nations has identified this territory as being non autonomous, and it is a situation that is actionable under the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.

FREEDOMS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO COLONIAL AND OTHER DEPENDENT COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES

QUESTION OF THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO COLONIAL AND OTHER DEPENDENT COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES

IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO COLONIAL AND OTHER DEPENDENT COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES

Indeed, it seemed more concerned with protecting the interests of sovereignty claimants than with assisting the colonial people of a Territory to achieve decolonization.

In most cases, colonial peoples had exercised their own right to self determination, and that principle was equally applicable to most of the remaining Territories under colonial rule.

4.12 Similarly, according to the State party, it cannot be asserted that the status of metropolitan territory or colony is conferred by the State.

Argentina had never consented to the acts of force that had given rise to the Malvinas question mere passage of time did not generate rights either in favour of a colonial Power occupying foreign territories or in favour of its subjects settled there, regardless of the name that the colonial Power might give to the territories.

Her paper called for a de shrouding of the terms used to define the colonial reality, suggesting that the terms British Overseas Territory and Administering Power instead of Colonies and Colonizing Power created an illusion of partnership and equality.

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Activities of foreign economic and other interests which impede the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Territories under colonial domination

(e) To encourage the involvement of Non Self Governing Territories in the dissemination of information on decolonization

(e) To encourage the involvement of the Non Self Governing Territories in the dissemination of information on decolonization

In the case of the Malvinas Islands, the people colonized cannot be distinguished from the colonizer since they are the descendants of the colonists whom the occupying Power, after carrying out an act of usurpation in 1833, settled in the territory, expelling by force the pre existing Argentine population, which was thereafter prevented from residing freely in the territory or acquiring land.

1. Stresses the need to dispatch periodic visiting missions to Non Self Governing Territories in order to facilitate the full, speedy and effective implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples with respect to those Territories

The historic Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples had accelerated decolonization across the world, yet 2 million people still lived in 16 Non Self Governing Territories.

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As for the Special Committee on Decolonization, its goal consisted in ensuring self determination for colonies, and there had been cases in which colonies had been de listed as Self Governing Territories after the United Nations had become convinced that they had exercised their right to self determination.

Military activities and arrangements by colonial Powers in territories under their administration

In the case of colonies, the concept of the indigenous population is relatively easy to apply.

13. Decides to follow the situation in the colonial and Non Self Governing Territories so as to ensure that all economic activities in those Territories are aimed at strengthening and diversifying their economies in the interest of the indigenous peoples and at promoting the economic and financial viability of those Territories, in order to facilitate and accelerate the exercise by the peoples of those Territories of their right to self determination and independence

A critical tool was the dissemination of information on decolonization to the people in the Territories.

AGENDA ITEM 91 ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN ECONOMIC AND OTHER INTERESTS WHICH IMPEDE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECLARATION ON THE GRANTING OF INDEPENDENCE TO COLONIAL COUNTRIES AND PEOPLES IN TERRITORIES UNDER COLONIAL DOMINATION

AGENDA ITEM 91 ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN ECONOMIC AND OTHER INTERESTS WHICH IMPEDE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECLARATION ON THE GRANTING OF INDEPENDENCE TO COLONIAL COUNTRIES AND PEOPLES IN TERRITORIES UNDER COLONIAL DOMINATION (continued)

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A similar workplan for the remaining Territories, pursuant to General Assembly resolutions, would accelerate the decolonization process elsewhere.

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That people desired and deserved the decolonization of their Territory.

Agenda item 91 Activities of foreign economic and other interests which impede the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Territories under Colonial Domination (continued)

Agenda item 91 Activities of foreign economic and other interests which impede the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Territories under colonial domination (continued)

Agenda item 91 Activities of foreign economic and other interests which impede the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Territories under colonial domination (continued)

Indigenous communities, peoples and nations are those which, having a historical continuity with pre invasion and pre colonial societies that developed on their territories, consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing in those territories, or parts of them.

Emphasis was placed on several important aspects of the working paper that referred to existing Member States of the United Nations, but also to indigenous peoples and territories that could be classified as colonies, non self governing territories or States in free association with another State.