Question of American Samoa, Samoa, Guam, New Hebrides, Pitcairn, St. Helena and Solomon Islands

A/RES/3290(XXIX)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1975.

What subjects does this mandate have?

13 subjects

American Samoa American Samoa Question Guam Guam Question Nuclear Weapon Tests Oceania Pitcairn Pitcairn Question Saint Helena Saint Helena Question Solomon Islands Vanuatu Visiting Missions

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Reaffirms the inalienable right of the peoples of those i:erritories to self~determination and independence m accordance with the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples;

3_. ~eaffi_rms its conviction that the questions of temtonal size, geographical isolation and limited resources should in no way delay the implementation of the Declaration with respect to the Territories concerned;

Calls upon the administering Powers concerned to take all the necessary steps, without further delay, to ensure. the full and speedy attainment of the goals set forth m the Declaration with respect to the Territories and, in that regard, to establish, in consultation with t~e fr~ely elected representatives of the people, a specific t1me-t'.3-bl: for the !re~ exercise by the peoples of the Temtones of theIT nght to self-determination and independence;

25 Sec Official Records of the General Assembly Twentyninth Session. Supplemnt No. 23 (A/9623/Rev.l ), ~hap. XX, annex, chap. XXI, annex I, and chap. XXII, annex I.

26 Ibid., chaps._X, XV, XVII and XXI. General Anembly-Twenty•nlnth Senion

Strongly deprecates any attempt aimed at the partial or total disruption of the national unity and territorial integrity of colonial Territories and the establishment of military bases and installations in those Territories as being incompatible with the purposes and principles of tbe Charter of the United Nations and of General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) ;

Calls upon the Governments of France and the United States of America, as the administering Powers

concerned, to reconsider their attitude towards receiving United Nations visiting missions and to permit access by such missions to the Territories under their administration;

Calls upon the Government of France, as an administering Power, to participate in the relevant proceedings of the Special Committee concerning the Territory of the New Hebrides and, in particular, to report to the Special Committee on the implementation of the present resolution;

Calls upon the administering Powers concerned to take all possible measures to diversify the economies of the Territories listed above;

Urges the administering Powers to safeguard the inalienable right of the peoples of those Territories to the enjoyment of their natural resources by taking effective measures which guarantee the rights of the peoples to own and dispose of those natural resources and to establish and maintain control of their future development;

Reiterates its deep concern at the testing of nuclear weapons which continued to take place in 1974 in the South Pacific, despite the stn,ng opposition to such testing as evidenced in General Assembly resolution 3156 (XXVIII) and in the relevant chapters of the report of the Special Committee, and as expressed by the peoples of the South Pacific, including those of the Non-Self-Governing Territories in the region;

Requests the organizations of the United Nations system to assist in accelerating progress in all sectors of the national life of the Territories listed above;

Invites the Secretary-General, having regard to the mandate entrusted to him by the General Assembly in its resolution entitled "Dissemination of information on decolonization",27 to pay particular regard to the need to intensify widespread dissemination of information on the process of decolonization in respect of the Territories listed above and, in particular, to consider intensifying the activities of the information centres concerned;

Requests the Special Committee to continue to give full consideration to this question, including .in particular the dispatch of visiting missions to the Territories, as appropriate, and to report to the General Assembly at its thirtieth session on the implementation of the present resolution.

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