The Future of the Trust Territory of the Cameroons Under United Kingdom Administration

A/RES/1350(XIII)No PDF available

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1959.

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2 versions · 1959–1961

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Appointment of Officials Cameroons Under British Administration Plebiscites Questionnaires Voting

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Recommends that the Administering Authority, in pursuance of Article 76 b of the Charter of the United Nations, take steps, in consultation with a United Nations Plebiscite Commissioner, to organize, under the supervision of the United Nations, separate plebiscites in the northern and southern parts of the Cameroons under United Kingdom administration, in order to ascertain the wishes of the inhabitants of the Territory concerning their future ;

Recommends further that in the northern part of the Territory the plebiscite should take place about the middle of November 1959, that the people of the northern part of the Territory should be asked :

" (a) Do you wish the Northern Cameroons to be part of the Northern Region of Nigeria when the Federation of Nigeria becomes independent?

or " ( b) Are you in favour of deciding the future of the Northern Cameroons at a later date?"

41 Official Records of the Trusteeship Council, Twrnt:y-third Session, Supplement No. 2 (T /1440), documents T /1426 and Add.I. General Asaembly-Thirt-nth Sea.Iand that the plebiscite should be conducted on the basis of the electoral register at present being compiled for the elections to the Federal House of Representatives;

Recommends further that the plebiscite in the southern part of the Territory should be conducted during the next dry season between the beginning of December 1959 and the end of April 1960;

Decides that the two alternatives to be put to the people of the southern part of the Territory and the qualifications "for voting in the plebiscite there should be considered by the General Assembly at its fourteenth session;

Expresses the hope that all concerned in the Territory will endeavour to reach agreement before the opening of the fourteenth session of the General Assembly on the alternatives to be put in the plebiscite in the Southern Cameroons and the qualifications for voting in it ;

Decides to appoint a United Nations Plebiscite Commissioner who shall exercise, on behalf of the General Assembly, all the necessary powers and functions of supervision, and who shall be assisted by observers and staff to be appointed by the Secretary-General in consultation with him ;

Requests the United Nations Plebiscite Commissioner to submit to the Trusteeship Council a report in two parts on the organization, conduct and results of the plebiscites, the first part of the report, which shall deal with the northern part of the Territory, to be submitted in time for transmission to the General Assembly for consideration before the end of its fourteenth session;

Requests the Trusteeship Council to transmit to it the reports of the United Nations Plebiscite Commissioner, together with any recommendations and observations it considers necessary.

13 March 1959.

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