Administrative error led to the omission of the islands of the former Netherlands Antilles from the UN list of non self-Governing Territories. | SMN NEWS

Islands were never formally decolonized by the United Nations general assembly

Removal from the list of Non-Self-Governing Territories (NSGT’s): the capstone of decolonization.

Removal from the UN list of NSGT’s is the final step in the decolonization of a colony. Only the UN General Assembly is authorized to issue a resolution authorizing the removal from that list.

The example of French Polynesia and New Caledonia:

These are examples of territories which were not included in the 1963 list of NSGT’s, while the UN had never declared that “Chapter XI of the Charter no longer applied”. In the 1940s ...

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