Question of Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea

A/RES/2227(XXI)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1967.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 1967–1971

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/2700(XXV)

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1971	A/RES/2700(XXV)	Question of Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea	527	45%Compare
1970	A/RES/2590(XXIV)	Question of Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea	439	34%Compare
1969	A/RES/2427(XXIII)	Question of Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea	363	20%Compare
1968	A/RES/2348(XXII)	Question of Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea	105	23%Compare
1967	A/RES/2227(XXI)	Question of Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea	307	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Discrimination Elections Military Activity Papua New Guinea Self-Determination of Peoples

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of Papua and New Guinea to self-determination and independence in accordance with General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) ;

Deplores the failure of the administering Power to implement General Assembly resolution 2112 (XX);

Calls upon the administering Power to implement

fully resolution 1514 (XV) and to inform the Trusteeship• Council at its thirty-fourth session and the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples of the action taken in this regard ;

C alls upon the administering Power to implement the following measures :

Removal of all discriminatory electoral qualifications;

( b) Abolition of all discriminatory practices in the economic, social, health and educational fields ;

Holding of elections on the basis of universal adult suffrage with a view to transferring power to the people of the Territories;

( d) Fixing oí an early date for independence;

Further calls upan the administering Power to refrain from utilizing the Territories for military activities incompatible with the Charter of the United Nations;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit the present resolution to the administering Power.

20 Deceinber 1966.

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