合起来以确保各国人民的基本自决权，它能够取得何等成就。2020年还标志着第三个铲除殖民主义十年的结束，它提醒我们，我们联合国在这方面还有未完成的工作。非自治领土上我们的许多兄弟姐妹，包括西撒哈拉人民，尚未行使他们的基本自决权。
Timor-Leste is a proud example of what the United Nations can achieve when it combines common sense of purpose and action to ensure the fundamental right of peoples to self-determination. 2020 Also marks the end of the third decade for the eradication of colonialism and we are reminded that we the United Nations have unfinished business in this regard. Many of our brothers and sisters in non-self governing territories, including the people of Western Sahara, have not exercised their fundamental right to self-determination.