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| • | The United Nations maintains a list of territories that do not govern themselves. The list is prepared by the Special Committee on Decolonization and presented to the General Assembly. This list is called the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. Only permanently inhabited territories are considered for inclusion in this list.
United Nations emphasise that the list is one that draws its origins from the period of Colonialism. Thus, Western Sahara is included not solely on the grounds that it is under Moroccan occupation (and seen as an integral part of the Kingdom) but also because it was a former Spanish colony. The same can be said about the status Namibia (excluded in 1990), which was seen as a vestige of German colonial legacy in Africa. According to this criterion of pertaining to the process of decolonisation, criticism from many activists, most notable of which are pro-Tibetan activists, is found groundless.The list is controversial, due to the fact that it includes many dependencies that have democratically elected to maintain their territorial status, and rejected independence (or in some cases the parent state periodically organizes referenda, as in the United States Virgin Islands, but there is insufficient voter interest), while other non-self-determining areas (many of the French overseas territories) are excluded. Many critics charge the Committee that drafts this list of using it as a purely ulterior political instrument.
It is worth noting that territories which have been annexed and incorporated into the legal framework of the controlling state (such as the overseas departments of France) are considered by the UN to have been decolonized, since they then no longer constitute "non-self-governing" entities, but rather their populations are assumed to have agreed to merge with their former parent state. However, in 1986, New Caledonia then a territoire d'outre-mer was included in the list, an act that caused protest from France. New Caledonia is the only French territory present in the list although it has been enjoying the status of a collectivité sui generis, a unique one in the Republic.
Source: [wikipedia: united nations list of non-self-governing territories]
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