Question of the Trust Territory of Nauru

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1968.

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3 versions · 1966–1968

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1966A/RES/2111(XX)Question of the Trust Territory of Nauru

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5 topics

Decolonization Members Nauru Newly-Independent States Trusteeship Agreements

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24 operative paragraphs

Appeals to all Member States to render all necessary assistance to the people of the Territory in their struggle to obtain freedom and independence;

Requests the Special Committee to continue its examination of the situation in the Territory and to consider the establishment of a sub-committee on Oman;

Requests the Secretary-General to take, in consultation with the Special Committee, appropriate measures for the implementation of the relevant General Assembly resolutions and to report thereon to the Assembly at its twenty-third session.

12 December 1967.

2311 (XXII). Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations

Recognizes that the specialized agencies, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the international institutions associated with the United Nations should extend their full co-operation to the United Nations in achieving the objectives of General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV);

Expresses its appreciation to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and to the specialized agencies which "have co-operated with the United Nations in seeking to implement the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly;

Recommends the specialized agencies and international institutions concerned to take urgent and effective measures to assist the peoples struggling for their liberation from colonial rule, and in particular to extend, within the scope of their respective activities, all necessary aid to the oppressed peoples of Southern Rhodesia and the Territories under Portuguese domination and to work out, in co-operation with the Organization of African Unity and through it with the national liberation movements, concrete programmes to this end;

Also recommends the specialized agencies and international institutions not to grant any assistance to South Africa and Portugal until they renounce their policy of racial discrimination and colonial domination ;

Requests all States, directly and through action in the specialized agencies and international institutions of which they are members, to facilitate the implementation of the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly;

Requests the Economic and Social Council to consider, in consultation with the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, appropriate measures for the co-ordination of the policies and activities · of the specialized agencies in implementing the f'elevant resolutions of the General Assembly;

Requests the Secretary-General to assist the specialized agencies and the international institutions

concerned in working out appropriate measures to implement the relevant resolutions and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its twenty-third session ;

Requests the Special Committee to examine this question and to report to the General Assembly at its twenty-third session.

14 December 1967.

234 7 (XXII). Question of the Trust Territory of Nauru

Notes the formal announcement by the Administering Authority that, following the resumed talks between representatives of the Nauruan people and of the Administering Authority, it was agreed that Nauru should accede to independence on 31 January 1968 ;12

Welcomes the statement made in the Fourth Committee by the representatives of the Governments of Australia. New Zealand and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as the Administering Authority that the Administering Authority has complied with the request of the representatives of the Nauruan people for full and unqualified independence;

Resolves accordingly, in agreement with the Administering Authority, that the Trusteeship Agreement for the Territory of Nauru approved by the General Assembly on 1 November 1947 shall cease to be in force upon the accession of Nauru to independence on 31 January 1968;

Calls upon all States to respect the independence and the territorial integrity of the independent State of Nauru;

Urges the organs of the United Nations concerned and the specialized agencies to render all possible assistance to the people of Nauru in their endeavour to build a new nation.

19 December 1967.

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Pursuant to Article 86 of the Charter of the United Nations, NEW ZEALAND will cease to be a member of the Trusteeship Council on the accession of Nauru to independmce on 31 //Jfluary 1968. As from that date the Council will therefore be c<>mposed of the following Member States: AUSTRAUA, CHINA,

2348 (XXII). Question of Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea

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) ;

Reaffirms its previous position as set forth in General Assembly resolutions 2112 (XX) and 2227 (XXI);

Calls upon the administering Power to take the necessary measures to implement without delay the provisions of the above-mentioned resolutions.

19 December 1967.

11 Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenfy-.serond Session, Annexes, agenda item 13, document A/6926.

12 Jbid., document A/6903.

2349 (XXII). Question of the consolidation and integration of the sp~ial educational and training programmes for South West Africa,

the sp~ial training programme for Territories under Portuguese administration and the educational and training programme for South Africans

Decides to integrate the special educational and training programmes for South West Africa, the special training programme for Territories under Portuguese administration and the educational and training programme for South Africans ;

Decides further to include in the United Nations Training and Educational Programme assistance to persons from Southern Rhodesia, provided that this is done only in so far as it does not interfere with existing United Nations schemes for educational assistance for such persons and that it is done with due regard to Security Council resolutions 216 ( 1965) of 12 November 1965 and 217 ( 1965) of 20 November 1965 relating to non-recognition of the illegal regime in Southern Rhodesia;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to study the means of promoting the further development and expansion of the Programme and, to this end, to continue his consultations with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the heads of other appropriate agencies and organs, and the Administrative Secretary- General of the Organization of African Unity ;

Decides that in the implementation of the present resolution the United Nations shall co-operate closely with the bureau for the placement and education of refugees that is being set up within the Organization of African Unity ;

Requests the Secretary-General to include in the Programme the granting of subventions to educational and training institutions in Africa in order to enable those institutions to provide places for persons who come under the Programme and to make it possible for those persons to be trained in Africa as far as practicable;

18 Ibid., agenda items 65, 67 and 68, document A/6890.

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