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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 May 2013
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/67/L.56/Rev.1
and Add.1)]
67/265. Self-determination
of French Polynesia
The
General Assembly,
Recalling the Charter of
the United Nations, its resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960 containing the Declaration on
the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and its
resolution 1541 (XV) of 15 December 1960,
Taking
into account articles 3 and 4 of the United Nations Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples[1]
regarding the right of self-determination and the recommendation of the
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at its eleventh session on the
implementation of basic fundamental human rights articulated in the
Declaration, particularly the right to self-determination,[2]
Taking
note of the resolution of the Assembly of French Polynesia, adopted in
Papeete, Tahiti, on 18 August 2011, in which it expressed its will that
French Polynesia be reinscribed on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing
Territories, and the decision taken by the Council of Ministers of the
Government of French Polynesia on 15 June 2011 to call for the
reinscription,
Welcoming
the decision of the Heads of State or Government of Pacific States taken at the
second “Engaging with the Pacific” regional meeting, held in Nadi, Fiji, on 1
and 2 September 2011, to support the reinscription of French Polynesia on
the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories,
Taking
note of the communiqué of the second Polynesian Leaders Group meeting, held
in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, on 25 August 2012, in which the Group affirmed
its support for the reinscription of French Polynesia on the United Nations
list of Non-Self-Governing Territories,
Welcoming the decisions
of the Pacific Islands Forum, taken at its meetings held in Apia, from 5 to
7 August 2004, Auckland, New Zealand, on 7 and 8 September 2011, and Rarotonga, Cook Islands,
from 28 to 30 August 2012, to support the principle of the right to
self-determination of the people of French Polynesia,
Welcoming also the Final Document of the Sixteenth
Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries,[3]
held in Tehran from 26 to 31 August 2012, affirming the inalienable right
of the people of French Polynesia to self-determination in accordance with
Chapter XI of the Charter and General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV),
Recalling
that French Polynesia, as the former French Establishments in Oceania, was
originally considered a Non-Self-Governing Territory in General Assembly
resolution 66 (I) of 14 December 1946, and noting that the Government
of France has not transmitted any further information regarding French
Polynesia since 1946,
1. Affirms the inalienable right of the
people of French Polynesia to self-determination and independence in accordance
with Chapter XI of the Charter of the United Nations and General Assembly
resolution 1514 (XV), recognizes that French Polynesia remains a
Non-Self-Governing Territory within the meaning of the Charter, and declares
that an obligation exists under Article 73 e of the Charter on the part of the Government of France, as the
administering Power of the Territory, to transmit information on French
Polynesia;
2. Requests the Special Committee on the
Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting
of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples to consider the question of French Polynesia at its next session and to report
thereon to the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session;
3. Requests the Government of France, as the Administering
Power concerned, to intensify
its dialogue with French Polynesia in order to facilitate rapid progress
towards a fair and
effective self-determination process, under which the terms and timelines for
an act of self-determination will be agreed, and to extend its cooperation to
the Special Committee in the implementation of the present resolution.
82nd plenary meeting
17 May 2013
17 May 2013
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