Question of Guam

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 24 Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, published in 1978.

What other versions does this mandate have?

25 versions · 1977–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/96

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/96	Question of Guam	2,755	95%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/105	Question of Guam	2,637	94%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/92	Question of Guam	2,737	95%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/140	Question of Guam	2,650	92%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/96	Question of Guam	2,743	94%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Declarations Development Assistance Guam Guam Question Permanent Sovereignty Self-Determination of Peoples Visiting Missions

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

I.

Approves the chapter of the report 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 relating to Guam;22 2.

Reaffirms the inalienable right of the peopk of Guam to self-determination and independence in accordance with the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples;

Reaffirms its conviction that questions of territorial size, geographical location and limited resources should in no way delay the implementation of the Declaration with respect to the 'fterritory;

Calls upon the Government of the United States of America, as the administering Power, in consultation with the freely elected representatives of the people, to continue to take all the necessary steps to ensure the full and speedy attainment of the goals set forth in the Declaration with respect to Guam;

Reaffirms its strong conviction that the presence of United States bases on Guam should not prevent the people of the Territory from freely exercising their right to self-determination in accordance with the Declaration and the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations;

Calls upon the administering Power to take all possible steps to diversify the economy of the Territory and to work out concrete programmes of assistance and economic development for Guam;

Takes note of the attitude of the Government of the United States regarding visiting missions and

requests the Chairman of the Special Committee to conitnue his consultations with a view to gaining access for such a mission to the Territory;

Urges the administering Power, with the cooperation of the Government of Guam, to safeguard the inalienable right of the people of the Territory to the enjoyment of its natural resources by taking effective measures which guarantee the right of the people to own and dispose of those natural resources and to establish and maintain control of their future development;

Requests the administering Power to continue to enlist the assistance of the speciaJ.ized agencies and other organizations within the United Nations system in accelerating progress in all sectors of the national life of Guam;

Requests the Special Committee to continue to seek the best ways and means for the implementation of the Declaration with respect to Guam, including the possible dispatch of a visiting mission in consultation with the administering Power, and to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-third session on the implementation of the present resolution.

VII.

21 lbid., Thirty-second Session, Fourth Committee, 17th meeting, paras. 47-50. 23/Rev.l ), vol. I, chaps. III and V, and vol. HI, chap. XXII.

::3/Rev.1 ), vol. III, chap. XXII.

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