General Assembly

Distr. GENERAL  

22 November 1988

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                                                        A/RES/43/47
                                                        59th plenary meeting
                                                        22 November 1988
 
         International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism
 
    The General Assembly,
 
    Recalling that the year 1990 will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the
 Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples,
 
    Bearing in mind the related recommendation contained in the Final Document
 adopted by the Conference of Foreign Ministers of Non-Aligned Countries, held
 at Nicosia from 7 to 10 September 1988,
 
    Bearing in mind also the important contribution of the United Nations in
 the field of decolonization, in particular through the Special Committee on
 the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the
 Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples,
 
    1.     Declares the period 1990-2000 as the International Decade for the
 Eradication of Colonialism;
 
    2.     Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at
 its forty-fourth session a report that would enable the Assembly to consider
 and adopt an action plan aimed at ushering in the twenty-first century a world
 free from colonialism.