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Decolonization in East Timor
Following the end of the Second World War a general awakening of the peoples in dependent territories in the world ensued, giving them the impetus to chart their own destiny and to strife for a political status of their own choice. This led to the incorporation in the Charter of the United Nations the recognition that in these territories the interests of Thee its peoples are paramount. Subsequently United Nations General Assembly resolutions 1514 (XV) and 1541 (X) laid down principles concerning the exercise of the right to self-determination. Affirming the inalienable right to self-determination of colonial peoples, resolution 1541 (XV) elucidates that such an exercise provides three alternatives: option one is independence, option two is association with an independent country and option three is integration with an independent country. Nowhere in the annals of decolonization are two cases alike. This explains why no rigid procedures are prescribed as to how the exercise of the right to self-determination is to be executed. Past experience amply peoples tater that it is wig and a roper to leave I keeping indie traditional values, they attach to it. In the case of East Timor, the process of decolonization was initiated by the people of East Timor themselves in & manner Consonant with their own historic and I cultural traditions.
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