United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1541 of 15 December 1960, titled "Principles which should guide members in determining whether or not an obligation exists to transmit the information called for under
Article 73e of the
Charter" was a
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of the
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during its fifteenth session with annexes of 12 principles, that affirmed that to ensure
decolonisation
Decolonization or decolonisation is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas. Some scholars of decolonization focus especially on independence m ...
, complete compliance with the principle of
self-determination is required.
See also
*
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV)
The Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, also known as the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1514, was a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly during its fifteenth session, that aff ...
A Declaration on the Granting of
Independence
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to
Colonial
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Architecture
* American colonial architecture
* French Colonial
* Spanish Colonial architecture
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Countries and
Peoples
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, ...
*
Decolonization
Decolonization or decolonisation is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas. Some scholars of decolonization focus especially on separatism, in ...
*
Self-determination
External links
United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/1541(XV): Principles which should guide members in determining whether or nor an obligation exists to transmit the information called for under Article 73e of the Charter.United Nations Trusteeship Agreements or were listed by the General Assembly as Non-Self-Governing
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1541
1960 in law
1960 in the United Nations
December 1960 events
Decolonization