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

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1969.

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55 versions · 1968–2025

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Bank Loans Declarations National Liberation Movements Portugal Sanctions South Africa Specialized Agencies

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Reiterates its appeal to the specialized agencies, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the international institutions associated with the United Nations to extend their full co-operation to the U nited N ations in the achievement of the objectives and provisions of General Assembly rescilution 1514 (XV) and other releYant resolutions;

E).·presses its appreciation ,to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and to those specialized agencies and the international institutions which have co-operated with the United Nations in the implementation of the relevant General Assembly resolutions;

Recommends that the specialized agencies and international institutions concerned should assist the peoples struggling for their liberation from colonial rule and, in particular, should work out, within the scope of their respective activities and in co-operation with the Organization of African Unity and, through it, with the national liberation movements, concrete programmes for assisting the oppressed peoples of Southern Rhodesia, Namibia and the Territories under Portuguese domination ;

Appeals once again to ali the specialized agencies and international institutions, and in particular the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and International Monetary Fund, to take all

8 !bid., agenda item 69, A/7301.

9[bid., Twenty-third Sessio11, S11pplement No. 3 (A/7203), chapter XVI, section C; ibid., Supp/ement No. 3A (A/7203/ Add.1), chapter VII, section A.

10 ]bid., Twenty-tltird Session, Annexes, addendum to agenda item 23 (A/7200/Rev.l), chapter III. General A11embly-Twenty-third Se11ion

necessary steps to withhold from the Governments of Portugal and South Africa financia!, economic, technical and other assistance until they renounce their policies of racial discrimination and colonial domination;

Recommends that the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development should withdraw the loans and credits it has granted to the Governments of Portugal and South Africa, which are being used by those Governments to suppress the national liberation movement in the Portuguese colonies and in Namibia, and against the African population of South Africa;

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

Req11ests 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 relevant General Assembly resolutions;

I n·vites the Secretary-General:

To continue to assist the specialized agencies and international institutions concerned in working out appropriate measures for implementing the relevant General Assembly resolutions and to report thereon to the Assembly at its twenty-fourth session;

( b) To obtain and transmit to the Special Committee for its consideration concrete suggestions from the specialized agencies and international institutions concerrted regarding the best ways and means of achieving the full and speedy implementation of the relevant resolutions;

Req11ests the Special Committee to continue to examine the question lind to report to the General Assembly at its twenty-fourth session.

18 December 1968.

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