Question of Equatorial Guinea (Fernando Póo and Río Muni)

UN General Assembly, Question of Equatorial Guinea (Fernando Póo and Río Muni), A/RES/2067, UN General Assembly, 16 December 1965, https://www.refworld.org/legal/resolution/unga/1965/en/7115 [accessed 19 April 2025]
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XX. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE FOURTH COMMITTEE
2067. Question of Equatorial Guinea (Fernando Póo and Río Muni)

The General Assembly, Having examined the situation in the Territories of Fernando Póo and Río Muni, Having heard the statements of the administering Power and the petitioners, Recalling its resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960 containing the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, Taking particularly into account the conclusions and recommendations of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples relating to the aforesaid Territories, [1] Noting that the Territories of Fernando Póo and Río Muni have been merged and named Equatorial Guinea,

1. Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of Equatorial Guinea to self-determination and independence;

2. Requests the administering Power to set the earliest possible date for independence after consulting the people on the basis of universal suffrage under the supervision of the United Nations;

3. Invites the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples to follow the progress of the implementation of the present resolution and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its twenty-first session.

1398th plenary meeting,
16 December 1965.
[1] Ibid., Nineteenth Session, Annexes, annex No. 8 (part I) (A/5800/Rev.1), chapter IX, para. 111.
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