State your opinion: The credit of decolonisation can be attributed to the United Nations Organisation (UNO).

Answer: I partly agree with this statement.

• The UN Charter accepted the right of self-determination. Its Trusteeship Council supervised trust territories and prepared them for independence.
• In 1960 the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and set up a committee on decolonisation.
• The UN gave a forum where newly free nations such as India raised the issue of colonies and of apartheid.
• However, the main credit goes to the freedom struggles of the people themselves and to the weakening of the colonial powers after the Second World War.

So the UNO helped and speeded up decolonisation, but it was not the only reason.