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UN head in renewed decolonization call

Tags: Ban Ki-moon, Society, World, News
 
Feb 26, 2010 18:15 Moscow Time
United Nations head Ban Ki-moon. Photo: EPA
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United Nations head Ban Ki-moon has renewed a call for a speedy end to dependencies and colonies in the modern world.At the time when the UN came into being in 1945, one third of the world’s people lived in colonies. In the period since the 1960 UN decolonization manifesto, the foreign-ruled entities have gone down to just 16 British-, American-, New Zealand-, Dutch- and French-governed island territories in the Caribbean and the South Pacific. The smallest such territory is the British Pacific island of Pitcairn, with a population of just 48.  

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