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Question of Niue

A/RES/3155(XXVIII)No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1974.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1974–1975
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/3285(XXIX)
  • 1975A/RES/3285(XXIX)Question of NiueLatestCompare with previous version
  • 1974A/RES/3155(XXVIII)Question of Niue

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 topics
DecolonizationNiueSelf-Determination of PeoplesSpecial Missions

What does this mandate say?

7 operative paragraphs
1
Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of Niue to self-determination in conformity with General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV);
• 8 Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 21 (A/9023/Rev.l ), chaps. III and XVI.
49 lbid., Twenty-eighth Session, Fourth Committee, 2067th meeting.
IIO Ibid., Twenty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 23 (Al 8723/Rev.1), chap. XVI, annex J.
51 Jbid., Twenty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/9023/ Rev.1), chap. XVI, annex, para. 19.
2
Approves the chapter of the report of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples relating to Niue52 and endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Special Committee on the question;
3
Notes with approval that, during the period since the United Nations Mission visited Niue in June 1972, the Government and people of Niue resolved to achieve self-government in 1974 and that agreement has been reached with the Government of New Zealand, as the administering Power, on a specific time-table for the free exercise by the people of Niue of their right to self-determination;
4
Welcomes the invitation extended by the administering Power to the Secretary-General for the United Nations to observe the act of self-determination in Niue in 1974;
5
Requests ·the Special Committee, in consultation with the administering Power and the Government of Niue, to appoint a special mission to Niue in 1974 which will observe the proceedings relating to the act of self-determination by the people of Niue and to report to the General Assembly at its twenty-ninth session;
6
Requests the administering Power and the Government of Niue, as well as the Secretary-General, to provide all the necessary assistance and facilities to the special mission in the discharge of its task;
7
Requests the Special Committee to report on this question to the General Assembly at its twenty~ninth session.
2202nd plenary meetinf?
14 December 197 3

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