English
We are living in a fast-changing world. The number of UN members has more than doubled. Most of the new members are newly-independent countries. Most of the new members are newly-independent countries. This fact mirrors an important feature of our epoch-the rise of the national-liberation movement and collapse of the old colonial empires. Today only 1.5 per cent of the world's population live in colonial or dependent countries. The break-up of the colonial regimes is nearing completion. Empires built in the course of centuries have crumbled in less than two decades.
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