Activities of Foreign Economic and Other Interests Which Are Impeding the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Southern Rhodesia and Namibia and in All Other Territories Under Colonial Domination and Efforts to Eliminate Colonialism, Apartheid and Racial Discrimination in Southern Africa

A/RES/3398(XXX)No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1976.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1976–1979

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/33/40

1979A/RES/33/40Activities of foreign economic and other interests which are impeding the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Southern Rhodesia and Namibia and in all other Territories under colonial domination and efforts to eliminate colonialism, apartheid and racial discrimination in southern AfricaLatestCompare with previous version
1978A/RES/32/35Activities of foreign economic and other interests which are impeding the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Southern Rhodesia and Namibia and in all other Territories under colonial domination and efforts to eliminate colonialism, apartheid and racial discrimination in southern AfricaCompare with previous version
1976A/RES/3398(XXX)Activities of foreign economic and other interests which are impeding the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Southern Rhodesia and Namibia and in all other Territories under colonial domination and efforts to eliminate colonialism, apartheid and racial discrimination in southern Africa

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What subjects does this mandate have?

8 topics

Foreign Interests Namibia Question Natural Resources Non-Self-Governing Territories Permanent Sovereignty Sanctions South Africa Southern Rhodesia

What does this mandate say?

10 operative paragraphs

Reaffums the inalienable right of the peoples of dependent Territories to self-determination and independence and to the enjoyment of the natural resources of their Territories, as well as their right to dispose of those resources in their best interests;

Reiterates that any administering P?wer whic_h deprives the colonial peoples of the exerc1se of their legitimate rights over their natural resources or subordinates the rights and interests of those peoples to foreign economic and financia! interests violates the solemn obligations it has assumed under the Charter of the United Nations;

Reaffirms that, by their depletive exploitation of natural resources, the continued accumulation and repatriation of huge profits and the use of those profits for the enrichment of foreign settlers and the entrenchment of colonial domination over the Territories, the activities of foreign economic, financia! and other interests operating at present in the colonial Territories of southem Africa constitute a major obstacle to political independence and to the enjoyment of the natural resources of those Territories by the indigenous inhabitants;

Candemns the policies of the colonial Powers and other States which continue to support or collaborate with those foreign economic and other interests engaged in exploiting the natural and human resources of the Territories, thus violating the political, economic and social rights and interests of the i_ndigenous p~oples and obstructing the full and speedy 1mplementat1on of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in respect of those Territories;

Calls upan the colonial Powers, as well as th~se Govemments which have not yet done so, to take leg1slative administrative or other measures in respect of their 'nationals and the bodies corporate under their jurisdiction who o~ and operate. enterp~ises in col~- nial Territories, parttcularly m Afnca, wh1ch are detr1- mental to the interests of the inhabitants of those Territories, in order to put an end to such enterprises General Aasembly-Thirtieth Session

and to prevent new investments that run counter to the interests of the inhabitants;

Requests all States to take effective measures to end the supply of funds and other forms of assistance, including military supplies and · equipment, to those régimes which use such assistance to repress the peoples of the colonial Territories and their national liberation movements;

Calls upon ali States to discontinue all economic, financia! or trade relations with South Africa concerning Namibia and to refrain from entering into economic, financia! or other relations with South Africa, acting on behalf of or concerning Namibia, which may lend support to its continued illegal occupation of that Territory;

Calls upan the administering Powers to abolish every discriminatory and unjust wage system wh~ch prevails in the Territories under their administrat1on and to apply in each Territory a uniform system of wages to ali the inhabitants without any discrimination;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to give the widest possible publicity to the adverse etfects of the activities of foreign economic and other interests in ali colonial Territories, as well as to the decisions of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of lndependence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and of the General Assembly on this question, and requests all Govemments to assist the Secretary-General in that regard;

Requests the Special Committee to continue to examine this question and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its thirty-first session.

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