Question of Spanish Sahara

A/RES/3292(XXIX)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1975.

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8 documents · 1970–1976

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1976	A/RES/3458(XXX)[B]	Question of Spanish Sahara	—	–
1976	A/RES/3458(XXX)A-B	Question of Spanish Sahara	—	–
1976	A/RES/3458(XXX)[A]	Question of Spanish Sahara	—	–
1975	A/RES/3292(XXIX)	Question of Spanish Sahara	650	–
1974	A/RES/3162(XXVIII)	Question of Spanish Sahara	156	–

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5 subjects

Advisory Opinions Foreign Interests Visiting Missions Western Sahara Western Sahara Question

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Decides to request the International Court of Justice, without prejudice to the application of the principles embodied in General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV), to give an advisory opinion at an early date on the following questions:

"I.

Was Western Sahara (Rio de Oro and Sakiet El Hamra) at the time of colonization by Spain a territory belonging to no one (terra nullius)?" If the answer to the first question is in the negative,

"II.

What were the legal ties between this territory and the Kingdom of Morocco and the Mauritanian entity?";

Calls upon Spain, in its capacity as administering Power in particular, as well as Morocco and Mauritania, in their capacity as interested parties, to submit to the International Court of Justice all such information and documents as may be needed to clarify those questions;

Urges the administering Power to postpone the referendum it contemplated holding in Western Sahara until the General Assembly decides on the policy to be followed in order to accelerate the decolonization process in the Territory, in accordance with resolution 1514 (XV), in the best possible conditions, in the light of the advisory opinion to be given by the International Court of Justice;

Reiterates its invitation· to all States to observe the resolutions of the General Assembly regarding the activities of foreign economic and financial interests in the Territory and to abstain from contributing by their investments or immigration policy to the maintenance of a colonial situation in the Territory;

Requests the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Jmplementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples to keep the situation in the Territory under review, including the sending of a visiting mission to the Territory, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its thirtieth session.

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