Question of the New Hebrides

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1979.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1977–1979

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1979	A/RES/34/10	Question of the New Hebrides	561	25%Compare
1979	A/RES/33/30	Question of the New Hebrides	780	33%Compare
1977	A/RES/31/51	Question of the New Hebrides	723	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Development Assistance Economic Assistance Marine Resources Permanent Sovereignty Property Rights Vanuatu Visiting Missions

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

Recalling its resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, containing the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples,

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 the New Hebrides;6 2.

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

Reaffirms the territorial integrity and national unity of the New Hebrides;

Welcomes the joint commitment of the two administering Powers to independence for the New Hebrides, as reiterated in their letter dated 11 April 1978 to the Secretary-General, 5 and urges them to continue their efforts towards the early independence of the Territory, in consultation with all the people of the Territory;

Requests the administering Powers to take all appropriate measures to strengthen the economy of the New Hebrides, to continue taking steps to unify the administration of the Territory and to work out concrete programmes of assistance and economic development;

Urges the administering Powers to continue their efforts, in co-operation with the people of the Territory, to promote a unitary system of education;

Requests the administering Powers to continue to enlist the assistance of the specialized agencies and other organizations within the United Nations system in accelerating progress in all sectors of the national life of the Territory;

Urges the administering Powers, in co-operation with the Government of the New Hebrides, to safeguard the inalienable right of the people of the Territory to the enjoyment of their natural resources by

taking effective measures which guarantee the rights of the people to own and dispose of those natural resources and to establish and maintain control of their future development;

Requests the administering Powers, in particular, to take all necessary measures to safeguard the full enjoyment by the people of the Territory of their

4 Ibid., 24th meeting, paras. 23-30, and 32nd meeting, para. 57.

5 See A/33/80.

6 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-third Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/33/23/Rev.1), vol. III, chap. XIII. marine resources, through such measures as guarding against over-exploitation and contamination, and to ensure that the rights of the people with regard to ownership of land are fully safeguarded and respected;

Requests the Governments of France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to facilitate the early dispatch of a United Nations visiting mission to the New Hebrides;

Requests the Special Committee to continue to seek the best ways and means for the implementation of the Declaration with respect to the New Hebrides, including the early dispatch of a visiting mission to the Territory, and to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-fourth session on the implementation of the present resolution.

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