Question of Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, and Turks and Caicos Islands — A/RES/3427(XXX) | UN Mandate Registry

Question of Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, and Turks and Caicos Islands

A/RES/3427(XXX)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1976.

What subjects does this mandate have?

11 subjects

Bermuda Bermuda Question British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands Question Cayman Islands Cayman Islands Question Development Assistance Self-Determination of Peoples Turks and Caicos Islands Turks and Caicos Islands Question Visiting Missions

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

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Approves the chapters 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 Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands;40

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

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

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Calls upon the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 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

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attainment of the goals set forth in the Declaration with respect to the Territories;

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Calls upon the administering Power to take all possible steps to diversify the economies of the Territories listed above and to work out concrete programmes of assistance and economic development for those Territories;

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Urges the administering Power, with the cooperation of the Governments of the Territories concerned, 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;

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Welcomes the positive attit11de of the administering Power with respect to the receiving of United Nations visiting missions in the Territories under its administration and requests the Chairman of the Special Committee to continue his consultations with a view to the dispatch of such missions, as appropriate;

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

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Requests the Special Committee to continue to seek the best ways and means for the implementation of the Declaration with respect to Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands, including the possible dispatch of visiting missions in consultation with the administering Power, and to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-first session on the implementation of the present resolution.

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34 Ibid., chaps. IV and XXI.

as Ibid., Thirtieth Session, Fourth Committee, 2166th meeting.

36 Ibid., Twenty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/9623/ 38 Ibid., chaps. IV, XXV and XXVII. Rev.I), chap. XXI, annex I.

39 Jbid., Thirtieth Session, Fourth Committee, 2166th meeting,

37 Ibid., Thirtieth Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/10023/ 40 Ibid., Thirtieth Session, Supplement No. 23 (Al 10023/ Rev .1 ) , chap. XXI.

Rev .1 ) , chaps. XXV and XXVII.

41 Ibid., chaps. IV and XIX.

42 Ibid., Twenty-eiglzth Session, Supplement No. 30 (Al 9030), p. 111, item 23.

45 Ibid., Thirtieth Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/10023/ 43 Ibi4,, Twenty-nintlz Session, Supplement No. 31 (A/9631),

Rev. I), chap. XIX. p. 116, item 23.

46 Ibid., chaps. IV, XXIII and XXVI.

47 See Al AC.109/SC.3/SR.229, 234, 235 and 240.

44 lbid., Thirtieth Session, Fourth Committee, 2168th meeting.