A/RES/71/115. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2016

• Resolution Number: A/RES/71/115
• Session: 71st
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

A/RES/71/115

General Assembly

Distr.: General

28 December 2016

Seventy-first session

Agenda item 58

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 6 December 2016

[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee

(Fourth Committee) (A/71/502)]

71/115. Question of Pitcairn

The General Assembl y,

Havi ng consi dered t he ques tion of Pitcairn ,

Havi ng ex amined the releva nt ch apter of t he re port of t he Sp ecial Commit tee

on the Situ ation with re gard to the Impl ementat ion of the Decl aration on the

Gran ting of Indep endence to Co lonial Cou ntries and Pe oples for 201 6, related to

Pitcairn,

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Taki ng not e of the working pape r prep ared by the Secr etariat on Pitcairn

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and

othe r releva nt infor mation,

Recognizing that all avai lable optio ns for self-d etermina tion of the Terri tory

are valid as long as th ey ar e in accor dance with the freely expres sed w ishes of t he

peop le of P itcairn and in confor mity wi th the clearl y define d princ iples c ontained in

Gene ral A ssembly reso lutions 15 14 (XV) of 14 Decemb er 196 0, 15 41 (XV ) of

15 Dec ember 1 960 and other r esolutio ns of th e Assem bly,

Expr essing conce rn th at 56 years after the adopti on o f the Decl aration on the

Gran ting of In depende nce to Co lonial Co untries a nd Peo ples,

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ther e still re main

17 Non -Self-G overnin g Territ ories, in cluding Pitcair n,

Conscious of the importa nce of contin uing t he effe ctive i mplemen tation of the

Decl aration, ta king into acco unt the targe t se t b y t he United Na tions to eradi cate

colo nialism by 2 020 an d the plans of act ion fo r the Second

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and Third Intern ational

Deca des for the Erad ication of Colo nialism,

Recognizing that the s pecific char acterist ics a nd th e as piration s of the peopl e

of Pitca irn require flex ible, practi cal and innovat ive appro aches to the options fo r

self- determi nation, wit hout any preju dice to territor ial size, geogr aphical loc ation,

size of popu lation o r natura l resour ces,

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1

Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/71/23), chap. X.

2

A/AC.109/2016/12.

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Resolution 1514 (XV).

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A/56/61, annex.