Managua (Nicaragua), 20/05/2015 (SPS) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon excluded yesterday, Tuesday, Morocco from the list of the four administering Powers running the 17 Non-Self-Governing Territories remaining in the world.
In a message, delivered by Josiane Ambiehl, Chief of the Decolonization Unit, Department of Political Affairs, at the opening session of the Caribbean Regional Seminar on the Implementation of the Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, Ban Ki-moon said: “today, 17 Territories, with a total population of 1.6 million people, and administered by four administering Powers, remain on the list”, recalling that they were 72 in 1946.
Actually, the four recognized administering Powers are USA, UK, New Zealand and France.
“Much has been achieved, yet we have not completed the task of decolonization or reached the goal of eradicating colonialism,” stated Ban.
Non-autonomous territories are Anguilla, Bermuda, Gibraltar, Guam, the Cayman Islands, the Falkland Islands (Malvinas), the Turks and Caicos, the British Virgin Islands, the Virgin Islands of the United States, Montserrat, New Caledonia, Pitcairn, Western Sahara, American Samoa, St. Helena, Tokelau.
Members of the UN Committee of Decolonization are Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Chile, China, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Ethiopia, the Russian Federation, Fiji, Granada, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mali, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Congo, the United Republic of Tanzania, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sierra Leone, Syria, Timor-Leste, Tunisia and Venezuela. (SPS)
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