Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples

Russia Post released a stamp to celebrate the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples on 31st July 2020 depicting a symbolic image of the declaration - hands breaking the chains.

The declaration on granting independence to colonial countries and peoples was adopted on the initiative of the USSR on December 14, 1960 at the 15th session of the UN General Assembly. The document proclaimed the need to put an end to colonialism and any practice of segregation and discrimination associated with it, and also confirmed the inalienable right to full independence and freedom of the peoples of all colonial countries and other non-self-governing territories.