A request to include Guadeloupe in the list of countries to be decolonized, submitted to the United Nations
Anti-colonial organizations intervened today, Friday, at the headquarters of the United Nations, which is holding its 78th General Assembly, to demand that Guadeloupe be included in the list of countries to be decolonized. To date, the United Nations recognizes 17 territories belonging to colonial powers. Two overseas territories are part of it, but not Guadeloupe.
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The Guadeloupe delegation participates in the 78th sessiony The United Nations General Assembly this week at its headquarters in New York. It consists of members of several local national organizations: Alyans nasyonal Gwadloup (ANG), Fos pou konstwui nasyon Gwadloup (FKNG), International Movement for Reparations (MIR), Initiative Committee for an Alternative Political Project (CIPPA), International Committee for Reparations (MIR), Committee Initiative for an Alternative Political Project (CIPPA), International Committee for Reparations (MIR). Blacks (CIPN), Union People’s Liberation of Guadeloupe (UPLG) And Kolèktif pou sové Gwadloup (KSG). Along with them were representatives of anti-colonial forces in Guyana and Martinique.
Nathalie Menacci (ANG) and Jean-Jacob Bissep (UPLG) spoke on behalf of those present in Guadeloupe, on Friday, September 22, 2023.
This delegation will request that Guadeloupe be included in the list of countries to be decolonized.
ANG press release
In fact, there is a special committee on decolonization within the United Nations. It is responsible for supporting the demands of regions around the world that aspire to their sovereignty and have not yet achieved autonomy.
in this time, The United Nations still considers 17 regions non-independentWhere less than two million people live. The Antilles and Guyana are not part of it, unlike Polynesia and New Caledonia, as far as French overseas territories are concerned.
In 1945, when the United Nations was founded, nearly a third of the world’s population was dependent on colonial powers, or 750 million people. Since then, more than 80 former colonies have gained independence, and the United Nations has worked extensively to encourage decolonization there. It continues its work in this sense.
The Guadeloupe delegation received an invitation from Azerbaijan, the country that currently holds the presidency.Non-linear movement“, notes UPLG in a press release. In New York, it participated in a meeting on decolonization, during which “The state of the last French colonies” was discussed. In his intervention, the Secretary-General of the UPLG, Jean-Jacob Bissep, in addition to calling for Guadeloupe to be re-included in the UN list of countries to be decolonized, presented reparations as “a fundamental pillar of decolonization.”
The final declaration of this meeting called “Decolonization: Quiet Revolution” will be sent to the governing bodies of the United Nations. UPLG welcomes this great initiative that puts the colonial situation of our country and other French colonies in the international spotlight and helps bring us out of our current isolation.
Press release from UPLG
See also/ “The United Nations and Decolonization: Yesterday and Today“:
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