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Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples

United Nations General Assembly resolution adopted in 1960

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Source revisionSep 23, 2026

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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 affirmed independence for countries and peoples under colonial rule.

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This entry incorporates text from “Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.