Question of the United States Virgin Islands

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1985.

What other versions does this mandate have?

23 versions · 1977–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/103

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/103	Question of the United States Virgin Islands	1,977	91%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/112	Question of the United States Virgin Islands	2,109	92%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/99	Question of the United States Virgin Islands	2,181	99%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/147	Question of the United States Virgin Islands	2,178	90%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/103	Question of the United States Virgin Islands	2,375	89%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Declarations Members Natural Resources Programme Implementation Social Development United States Virgin Islands United States Virgin Islands Question Visiting Missions

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

Approves the chapter of the report of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting oflndependence to Colonial Countries and Peoples relating to the United States Virgin Islands;29

Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of the United States Virgin Islands to self-determination and independence in conformity with the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, contained in General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV);

Reiterates the view that such factors as territorial size, geographical location, size of population and limited natural resources should in no way delay the speedy exercise by the people of the Territory of their inalienable right to self-determination and independence in conformity with the Declaration contained in General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV), which fully applies to the United States Virgin Islands;

Reiterates that it is the responsibility of the administering Power to create such conditions in the United States Virgin Islands as will enable the people of the Territory to exercise freely and without interference their inalienable right to self-determination and independence in conformity with General Assembly resolution I 5 I 4 (XV);

Calls upon the administering Power, taking into account the wish of the people of the United States Virgin Islands, to take all necessary steps to expedite the process of decolonization in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and the Declaration, as well as all other relevant resolutions and decisions of the General Assembly;

Notes that the Senate of the United States Virgin Islands has established a Select Committee to ascertain the views of the people of the Territory on their future status and to make recommendations in that regard to the Legislature and further notes that public hearings are being held throughout the Territory:

Reaffirms the responsibility of the administering Power under the Charter for the economic and social development of the Territory:

Urges the administering Power, in co-operation with the territorial Government, to strengthen the economy of the Territory by taking additional measures of diversification in all fields and developing an adequate infrastructure with a view to reducing its economic dependence on the administering Power;

Notes with satisfaction the recent admission of the United States Virgin Islands as an associate member of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and its subsidiary body, the Caribbean Development and Co-operation Committee, and calls upon the administering Power to facilitate the participation of the Territory in other organizations of the United Nations system;

Urges the administering Power, in co-operation with the Government of the United States Virgin Islands, to safeguard the inalienable right of the people of the Territory to the enjoyment of their natural resources by taking effective measures to guarantee their right to own and dispose of those resources and to establish and maintain control of their future development;

l l. Also urges the administering Power, in co-operation with the territorial Government, to continue to improve social conditions and to pay particular attention to overcoming problems of public housing, health care. education and crime and, in that connection, notes that

further efforts are necessary to revitalize the health care programme, to improve crime prevention, to discourage juvenile delinquency and to expand and upgrade school facilities;

Further urges the administering Power to continue to take all necessary measures to comply fully with the purposes and principles of the Charter, the Declaration and the relevant resolutions and decisions of the General Assembly relating to military activities and arrangements by colonial Powers in Territories under their administration;

Considers that the possibility of sending a further visiting mission to the United States Virgin Islands at an appropriate time should be kept under review;

Requests the Special Committee to continue the examination of this question at its next session, including the possible dispatch of a further visiting mission to the United States Virgin Islands at an appropriate time and in consultation with the administering Power, and to report

26 See A/ AC. I 091778, para. 20.

28 Ibid .. Thirty-ninth Session, Fourth Committee, 17th meeting, paras. 27 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-ninth Session, Supple- 73-82. ment No. 23 (A/39/23), chaps. IV, VI and XXV.

29 Ibid .. Thirtl'-ninth Session Supplement No. 23 (A/39/23), chap. XXV.

30 Ibid., chaps. IV and XX\' II 33 Sec Official Remrds of the General Assembly, Thirty-ninth Session, 31 A/AC.1091799.

Fourth Committee, I 4th meeung, paras. I and 2. J2see A/AC.1091772 34 lb,d., 16th meeting, paras. 45-50.

35 lh1d.. Th,rtv-n,nrh Scsswn, Supplement No. 23 (A/39/23), chap. XXVII.

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