Question of the United States Virgin Islands

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1988.

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?

7 subjects

Development Military Activity Natural Resources Self-Determination of Peoples United States Virgin Islands United States Virgin Islands Question Visiting Missions

What’s in this document?

11 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 of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples relating to the United States Virgin Islands;28 2.

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; size, geographical locatio!l, size of population and limited natural resources should m no way delay the speedy exercise by the people of the Territory of their in_alienable ri~ht to self-determination and independence m conformity with the Declaration, which fully applies to the United States Virgin Islands;

Reiterates that it is the responsibility of the United States of America, as 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 selfdetermination and independence in conformity with resolution 1514 (XV) and all other relevant resolutions of the General Assembly;

Reaffirms that it is ultimately for the peop~e of t~e United States Virgin Islands themselves t~ determme their future political status in accorda~ce with_ the relevant provisions of the Charter of the l!mted Nations, the Declaration and the relevant resolutions of the General ~ssembly and, in that connection, ~alls upon _the_ admmistering Power, in co-operation with th~ _territonal _Goyernment, to facilitate programmes of pohtical education m the Territory to foster an awareness amo~g the pe?pl~ of the possibilities open to them in the exercise of thetr nght to self-determination;

Reaffirms the responsibility of the administering Power under the Charter to promote the economic and social development of the United States Virgin Islands;

Urges the administering Power, in co-operation with the territorial Government, to strengthen the economy of the Territory by, inter alia, taking additional measures of diversification and continuing to develop the Territory's infrastructure with a view to reducing the heavy economic dependence of the Territory on the administering Power;

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 natur8:l r~sources by taking effective measures to guarantee thetr _nght to ow!1 a~d dispose of those resources and to estabhsh and mamtam control of their future development;

Requests the administering Power to seek for the territorial Government a status similar to that of other dependent Territories within the Caribbean Group for Cooperation in Economic Development;

Reiterates its call upon the administering Power _to facilitate further the participation of the United States Vtrgin Islands in various intergovernmental bodies a!ld organizations, including the organization~ of the Un~ted_ Nations system and regional and subregional orgamzattons;

Urges the administering Power to continue to take all necessary measures to comply fully with t~e purposes and principles of the Charter, the Declaration and the relevant resolutions and decisions of the General Assembly relating to militar~ ae:tivities and _arrang_ef!lents_ by colonial Powers in Terntones under thetr admm1stratton;

Requests the Special Committee to continue the examination of this question at its next session, including the possible dispatch of a further visiting !llissi?n to t~e United States Virgin Islands at an appropnate time and m consultation with the administering Power, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its forty-third session.

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