A/RES/73/295. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2019

• Resolution Number: A/RES/73/295
• Year: 2019
• Session: 73rd
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

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/RES /73/ 295

General Assembly

Distr. : Genera l

24 Ma y 2019

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Seventy -third sess ion

Agen da item 88

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 22 May 2019

[without reference to a Main Commit tee (A/73/L.84/Rev.1 an d A/73/L.84/Rev.1/Add.1)]

73/295. Advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice o n the legal

consequences of the sepa ration of t he Cha gos Archipelago from

Mauritius in 1965

The General Assembly ,

Guid ed by t he prin ciples ensh rined i n the C harter of t he Unit ed Nati ons,

inclu ding th e inalie nable ri ght of s elf-de terminat ion of p eoples,

Cons ider ing th at resp ect for the obligatio ns ari sing fr om the Charte r and other

instr uments a nd rule s of inte rnationa l law is a mong th e basic p urposes and prin ciples

of th e Unite d Nation s,

Reca llin g i ts res olution 71 /292 o f 22 Ju ne 201 7, by whi ch it dec ided, in

acco rdance wit h A rticle 96 of th e Charter, to r equest the I nternati onal Court o f J ustice,

purs uant t o Artic le 65 of t he Sta tute of th e Cour t, to rende r an advisor y opi nion o n

the follow ing t wo qu estions rela ting t o the lega l con sequence s of the separa tion of

the Chagos Ar chipelag o from M auritiu s in 196 5:

(a) “ Was the proc ess of de coloniza tion of M auritius lawfully complet ed when

Maur itius wa s grante d indepe ndence in 1968, followin g the se paratio n of the Chagos

Arch ipelago f rom Maur itius and h aving reg ard t o in ternatio nal l aw, inc luding

obli gations ref lected in Gene ral A ssembly re solution s 1514 (X V) of 14 D ecembe r

1960 , 2066 ( XX) of 16 Dec ember 1965 , 2232 (XXI ) of 2 0 Decemb er 196 6 and

2357 (XXI I) o f 19 De cember 1967?”,

(b) “W hat are t he conseq uences u nder inte rnationa l law, inclu ding obli gations

refle cted in the abov e-menti oned reso lutions, arisi ng fr om th e con tinued

admi nistrati on by the U nited Kingdo m of Great Britai n and Northe rn Ire land o f the

Chag os Archipe lago, incl uding wit h respect to the inabil ity of Maur itius to im plement

a progr amme for th e resettle ment on the Ch agos Archip elago of its n ationals, i n

part icular th ose of Chagossi an orig in?”,