Question of Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands and United States Virgin Islands

A/RES/3157(XXVIII)No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1974.

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2 versions · 1974–1975

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/3289(XXIX)

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1974A/RES/3157(XXVIII)Question of Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands and United States Virgin Islands

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14 topics

Bermuda Bermuda Question British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands Question Cayman Islands Cayman Islands Question Montserrat Montserrat Question Permanent Sovereignty Turks and Caicos Islands Turks and Caicos Islands Question United States Virgin Islands United States Virgin Islands Question Visiting Missions

What does this mandate say?

11 operative paragraphs

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 Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands and United States Virgin Islands;66

Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of those Territories to self-determination and independence 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 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;

Calls upon the Governments of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America, as the administering Powers

concerned, to reconsider their attitude towards 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 Government of the United Kingdom. as an administering Power, to participate in the relevant proceedings of the Special Committee concerning the Territories under its administration 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 economics of the Territories listed above;

Urges the administering Powers to safeguard the inalienabl.e 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 di~pose of those natural resources and to establish and maintain control of their future development;

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

Invites the Secretary-General, having regard to the mandate entrusted to him in General Assembly resolution 3164 (XXVIII) of 14 December '.~,7~, to pay particular regard to the need to intensi· widespread dissemination of information on the pi, ~·~ss 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 c;>ntinue to give full consideration to this question, including in

M Ibid., chaps. XXIIT-XXV.

particular the dispatch of visiting missions to those Territories, and to report to the General Assembly at

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