Resolution on the Comoro Islands


CM/Res. 152 (XI)



RESOLUTION ON THE COMORO ISLANDS



The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its Eleventh Ordinary Session in Algiers, Algeria, from 4 to 12 September 1968,


Reaffirming the inalienable rights of all the peoples and territories of Africa to freedom and independence,


Considering that the Comoro Island are not inscribed on the list of colonial Territories under the terms of the UN Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples,


Having regard to the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples contained in Resolution 1514 (XV) of the United Nations General Assembly,


  1. CALLS UPON the French Government to take immediate measures to enable the people of the Comoro Islands to exercise their inalienable right to self determination and independence;


  1. INVITES the African Group at the United Nations to request the inclusion of the Comoro Islands on the list of non-self-governing territories of the Decolonization Committee of the United Nations;


  1. ASKS the Administrative Secretary General to communicate to the Chairman of the UN Decolonization Committee the request of the OAU concerning the inclusion of the Comoro Island on the list of the Decolonization Committee.

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