A/RES/59/134 A-B. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2004

• Resolution Number: A/RES/59/134 A-B
• Year: 2004
• Session: 59th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/59/134 A-B

General Assembly Distr.: General

25 January 2005

Fifty-ninth session

Agenda item 20

04-48430

Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly on 10 December 2004

[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee

(Fourth Committee) (A/59/478)]

59/134. Questions of American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda,

the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guam,

Montserrat, Pitcairn, Saint Helena, the Turks and

Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands

A

G

ENERAL

The General Assembly

,

Having considered

the questions of the Non-Self-Governing Territories of

American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman

Islands, Guam, Montserrat, Pitcairn, Saint Helena, the Turks and Caicos Islands and

the United States Virgin Islands, hereinafter referred to as “the Territories”,

Having examined

the relevant chapter of the report of 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

Recalling

all resolutions and decisions of the United Nations relating to those

Territories, including, in particular, the resolutions adopted by the General

Assembly at its fifty-eighth session on the individual Territories covered by the

present resolution,

Recognizing

that all available options for self-determination of the Territories

are valid as long as they are in accordance with the freely expressed wishes of the

peoples concerned and in conformity with the clearly defined principles contained

in General Assembly resolutions 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, 1541 (XV) of

15 December 1960 and other resolutions of the Assembly,

Recalling

General Assembly resolution 1541 (XV), containing the principles

that should guide Member States in determining whether or not an obligation exists

to transmit the information called for under Article 73

e

of the Charter of the United

Nations,

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1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/59/23), chap. IX.