Question of East Timor

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 93 Question of East Timor, published in 1978.

What other versions does this mandate have?

9 versions · 1978–2002

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/56/282

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2002	A/RES/56/282	Question of East Timor	356	22%Compare
2000	A/RES/54/194	Question of East Timor	233	13%Compare
1999	A/RES/53/240	Question of East Timor	431	7%Compare
1982	A/RES/37/30	Question of East Timor	1,941	15%Compare
1981	A/RES/36/50	Question of East Timor	659	—

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Declarations East Timor Question Humanitarian Assistance Self-Determination of Peoples Timor-Leste Visiting Missions

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of East Timor to self-determination and independence. and the legitimacy of their struggle to achieve that right;

Reaffirms its resol utions 3485 (XXX) and 31 / 53 and Security Council resolutions 384 (1975) and 389 (1976);

Rejects the claim that East Timor has been integrated into Indonesia, inasmuch as the people of the Territory have not been able to exercise freely their right to self-determination and independcnce;

Requests the Special Committee on ,the Situation with regard to the Implementation of thc Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples to keep the situation in the Territory under aotive consideration, to follow the implementation of the present resolution, to dispatch to the Territory as soon as possible a visiting mission with a view to the ful] and speedy implementation of the Declaration and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its thirtythird session;

Requests the Secretary-General in consultation with the Chairman of the Special Committee, in the meantime to send urgently a special representative to East Timor for the purpose of making a thorough, onthe-spot assessment of the existing situation in the Territory and of establishing contact with the representatives of the Frente Revolucionária de Timor Leste Independente and the Government of Indonesia, as well as the Governments of other States concerned, in arder to prepare the ground for a visiting mission of the Special Committee, and to report thereon to the Special Committee;

Draws the attention of the Security Council, in conformity with Article 11, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, to the critica! situation in the Territory of East Timor and recommends that it should take ali effective stcps far thc implementation of its resolutions 384 (1975) and 389 (1976) with a view ,to securing the full exercise by the people of East Timor of their right to self-determination and independence;

Calls upon the Government of Indonesia and the leadership of the Frente Revolucionária de Timor Leste Independente to facilitate the entry into East Timor of the International Committee of the Red Cross and other relief organizations in order to assist the people of the Territory;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-third session the ítem entitled "Question of East Timor".

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