Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples

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Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples


30 May 1964 Sub-Committee on Southern Rhodesia of the Special Committee of 24 on the ending of colonialism, London Airport (from left to right): Mr. Godfrey K. J. Amachree, UN Under-Secretary for Trusteeship and Non-Self-Governing Territories; Mr. Gershon Collier (Sierra Leone); Mr. Sori Coulibaly (Mali), Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Southern Rhodesia; Mr. Danilo Lekic (Yugoslavia); and Mr. Tesfaye Gebre-Egzy (Ethiopia), Secretary of the Sub-Committee on Southern Rhodesia. [Read more]	8 March 1966 Opening of the 1966 session of the Special Committee of 24 on the ending of colonialism, United Nations Headquarters, New York: Mr. Pedro Zuloaga (Venezuela), making a statement (right), next to Mr. Danilo Lekic (Yugoslavia).	19 April 1966 Special Committee of 24 on the ending of colonialism, United Nations Headquarters, New York: Mr. Danilo Lekic (Yugoslavia), addressing the Committee in the debate on the question of Southern Rhodesia.	21 February 1967 Special Committee of 24 on the ending of colonialism, United Nations Headquarters, New York: Mr. John S. Malecela (Republic of Tanzania), Chairman of the Committee (left), conversing with Mr. Mateo Marques-Sere (Uruguay), during the Committee’s consideration of the situation of six Caribbean territories (Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, St. Lucia and St. Vincent).


4 November 1974 Twenty-ninth Session of the General Assembly, Fourth Committee (Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories), United Nations Headquarters, New York (sitting at the table, from left to right): Mr. Tang Ming Chao, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Trusteeship and Decolonization; Mr. Buyantyn Dashtseren (Mongolia), Chairman; and Mr. Najmuddine Rifai, Committee Secretary. [Read more]	14 December 1975 Exhibit in commemoration of the fifteenth anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, United Nations Headquarters, New York: Reproduction of a map showing the world as it was in 1945.	14 December 1975 Exhibit in commemoration of the fifteenth anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, United Nations Headquarters, New York: Reproduction of a map showing the world as it was in 1960.	14 December 1975 Exhibit in commemoration of the fifteenth anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, United Nations Headquarters, New York: Reproduction of a map showing the world as it was in 1975.


8 October 1986 Forty-first Session of the General Assembly, Fourth Committee Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories), United Nations Headquarters, New York. [Read more]

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