Non-Compliance of the Government of Portugal with Chapter Xi of the Charter of the United Nations and with General Assembly Resolution 1542 (Xv)

A/RES/1699(XVI)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1962.

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5 subjects

Establishment Information Dissemination Members Petitions Territories Under Portuguese Administration

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Cond,emns the continuing non-compliance of the Government of Portugal with its obligations under Chapter XI of the Charter of the United Nations and with the terms of General Assembly resolution 1542 (XV), and its refusal to co-operate in the work of the Committee on Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories; General ABsembly-Sixteenth Session=----------------- Considers it necessary that, pending the fulfilment of these obligations by the Government of Portugal, the General Assembly must, for its part, continue to discharge its own obligations and responsibilities towards the inhabitants of the Non-Self-Governing Territories under Portuguese administration;

Decides to establish a Special Committee of seven members to be elected by the General Assembly to examine as a matter of urgency, within the context of Chapter XI of the Charter and relevant resolutions of the Assembly, such information as is available concerning Territories under Portuguese administration, and to formulate its observations, conclusions and recommendations for the consideration of the Assembly and any other body which the Assembly may appoint to assist it in the implementation of its resolution 1514 (XV);

Requests the Secretary-General, pending the compliance by Portugal with its obligations under Chapter XI of the Charter to transmit information on conditions in the Territories under its administration, to prepare for the us~ of the Special Committee, on the basis of available information, background papers containing information on conditions prevailing in the Territories under the administration of Portugal;

Authorizes the Special Committee, in order that information available to it may be as up to date and authentic as possible, to receive petitions and hear petitioners concerning conditions prevailing in Portuguese Non-Self-Governing Territories;

Requests the Secretary-General to furnish the Special Committee with such necessary secretarial and other assistance as it may require in the performance of its tasks;

Requests Member States to use their influence to secure the compliance of Portugal with its obligations under the Charter and the relevant resolutions of the General As!,embly;

Further requests Member States to deny Portugal any support and assistance which it may use for the suppression of the peoples of its Non-Self-Governing Territories.

19 December 1961.

LON, COLOMBIA, CYPRUS, GUATEMALA, GUINEA and NIGERIA.

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