Opening of 2018 Session of Special Committee on Decolonization

Secretary-General António Guterres (left) greets Walton Alfonso Webson, Permanent Representative of Antigua and Barbuda to the United Nations and newly-elected Chair of the Special Committee on Decolonization, at the opening session of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. At right is Catherine Pollard, Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly Affairs and Conference Management.