Question of American Samoa, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Guam, New Hebrides, Pitcairn, St. Helena, Seychelles and Solomon Islands

A/RES/3156(XXVIII)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1974.

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American Samoa American Samoa Question Guam Guam Question Kiribati Military Bases Nuclear Weapon Tests Permanent Sovereignty Pitcairn Pitcairn Question Saint Helena Saint Helena Question Seychelles Solomon Islands South Pacific Ocean Region Tuvalu Vanuatu Visiting Missions

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Approves the chapters 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 the Territories of American Samoa, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Guam, New Hebrides, Pi,tcairn, St. Helena, Seychelles and Solomon Islands;54

Reaffirms the inalienable right of the peoples of those Territories to self-determination and independ •1 :ce in accordance with the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples;

Calls upon the administering Powers concerned to take all the necessary steps, without further delay, to ensure the full and speedy attainment of the goals set forth in the Declaration with respect to the Territories and, in that regard, to establish, in consultation with the freely elected representatives of the people, a specific time~table for the free exercise by the peoples

54 Ibid., chaps. X, XV, XVII and XVIlI. of the Territories of their right to self-determination and independence;

Reaffirms its conviction that the questions of territorial size, geographical isolation and limited resources should in no way delay the implementation of the Declaration with respect to the Territories concerned;

Strongly deprecates any attempt aimed at the partial or total disruption of the national unity and territorial integrity of colonial Territories and the establishment of military bases and installations in those Territories as being incompatible with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations nd of General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV);

Calls upon the Governments of France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America, as the administering Powers concerned, to reconsider their attitude t?wards the receiving of United Nations visiting missions to the above-mentioned Territories and to permit access by such missions to Territories under their administration;

Calls upon the Governments of France and the United Kingdom, as the administering Powers, to participate in the relevant proceedings of the Special Committee concerning the Territories under their acministration and, in particular, to report to the Special Committee on the implementation of the present resolution;

Calls upon the administering Powers concerned to take all possible steps to diversify the economies of the Territories listed above;

Urges the administering Powers to safeguard the inalienable right of the peoples of those Territories to the enjoyment of their natural resources by taking effective measures which guarantee the rights of the peoples to own and dispose of those natural resources and to establish and maintain control of their future development;

Calls upon the United Kingdom, as the administering Power concerned, formally to consult, in the presence of a United Nations mission, the people of Pitcairn about their views on present constitutional arrangements and the future status of the Territory;

Calls upon the administering Power concerned, in view of its responsibility towards the welfare of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories in the region, to discontinue any further nuclear atmospheric testing in the South Pacific area, in order not to endanger the life and environment of the peoples of the Territories concerned;

Requests the organizations of the United Nations system to assist in accelerating progress in all sectors of the national life of the Territories listed above;

Invites the Secretary-General, having regard to the mandate entrusted to him in General Assembly resolution 3164 (XXVIII) of J4 December 1973, to pay particular regard to the need to intensify widL:spread dissemination of information on the process of decolonization in respect of the Territories listed above and, in particular, to consider intensifying the activities of the information centres concerned;

Requests the Special Committee to continue to give full consideration to this question, including m particular the dispatch of visiting missions to those

Territories, and to report to the Genera,} Assembly at its twenty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution.

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