Activities of Foreign Economic and Other Interests Which Are Impeding the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Southern Rhodesia, Namibia and Territories Under Portuguese Domination and in All Other Territories Under Colonial Domination and Efforts to Eliminate Colonialism, Apartheid and Racial Discrimination in Southern Africa

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1970.

What other versions does this mandate have?

7 versions · 1969–1975

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/3299(XXIX)

1975A/RES/3299(XXIX)Activities of foreign economic and other interests which are impeding the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Southern Rhodesia, Namibia and Territories under Portuguese domination and in all other Territories under colonial domination and efforts to eliminate colonialism, apartheid and racial discrimination in southern AfricaLatestCompare with previous version
1974A/RES/3117(XXVIII)Activities of foreign economic and other interests which are impeding the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Southern Rhodesia, Namibia and Territories under Portuguese domination and in all other Territories under colonial domination and efforts to eliminate colonialism, apartheid and racial discrimination in southern AfricaCompare with previous version
1973A/RES/2979(XXVII)Activities of foreign economic and other interests which are impeding the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Southern Rhodesia, Namibia and Territories under Portuguese domination and in all other Territories under colonial domination and efforts to eliminate colonialism, apartheid and racial discrimination in southern AfricaCompare with previous version
1972A/RES/2873(XXVI)Activities of foreign economic and other interests which are impeding the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Southern Rhodesia, Namibia and Territories under Portuguese domination and in all other Territories under colonial domination and efforts to eliminate colonialism, apartheid and racial discrimination in southern AfricaCompare with previous version
1971A/RES/2703(XXV)Activities of foreign economic and other interests which are impeding the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Southern Rhodesia, Namibia and Territories under Portuguese domination and in all other Territories under colonial domination and efforts to eliminate colonialism, apartheid and racial discrimination in southern AfricaCompare with previous version

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13 topics

Apartheid Conference and Meeting Services Decolonization Foreign Interests Namibia National Liberation Movements Permanent Sovereignty Portugal Sanctions Self-Determination of Peoples South Africa Southern Rhodesia Territories Under Portuguese Administration

What does this mandate say?

9 operative paragraphs

Approves the report of the Special Comrnittee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of lndependence to Colonial Countries and Peoples relating to this question;

Reafjirms the inalienable right of the peoples of dependent Territories to self-determination and independence and to the natural resources of their Territories, as well as their right to dispose of these resources in their best interest in the light of the eighth preambular paragraph of General Assembly resclution 1514 (XV);

Af]irms that foreign economic and other interests operating in colonial Territories which are exploiting those Territories constitute a major obstacle to political independence as well as to the enjoyment of the natural resources of these Territories by the indigenous inhabitants;

Declares that any adrninistering Power, by depriving the colonial peoples of the exercise of their rights or by subordinating them to foreign economic and financia! interests, violates the obligations it has assumed under Chapters XI and XII of the Chartcr of the United Nations and impedes the implementation of resolution 1514 (XV);

Condemns the exploitation of the colonial Territories and peoples and the methods practised in the Territories under colonial domination by those foreign economic, financia! and other interests which are designed to perpetuate colonial rule;

Deplores the attitude of the colonial Powers and States concemed which have not taken any action to implement the relevant provisions of General Assembly resolutions;

Requests the administering Powers and States concemed whose companies and nationals are engaged in such activities to take immediate measures to put an end to all practices which exploit the Territories and peoples under colonial rule, in conforrnity with General Assembly resolutions 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, 2288 (XXII) of 7 December 1967 and 2425 (XXIII) of 18 December 1968, in particular by preventing new investments, especially in southern Africa, which ron counter to the objectives of the above-mentioned resolutions;

Requests all States to take effective measures to cease forthwith the supply of funds or other forms of economic and technical assistance to colonial Powers which use such assistance to repress the national liberation movements;

Requests the Special Comrnittee to continue to study this question and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its twenty-fifth session;

1 O. Requests the Secretary-General to use ali the facilities at bis disposal to render assistance to the Special Committee in the pursuit of this study.

12 December 1969.

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