Question of the United States Virgin Islands

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 19 Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, published in 1981.

What other versions does this mandate have?

23 versions · 1977–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/103

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/103	Question of the United States Virgin Islands	1,977	91%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/112	Question of the United States Virgin Islands	2,109	92%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/99	Question of the United States Virgin Islands	2,181	99%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/147	Question of the United States Virgin Islands	2,178	90%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/103	Question of the United States Virgin Islands	2,375	89%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Development Natural Resources United States Virgin Islands United States Virgin Islands Question Visiting Missions

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

Approves the chapter 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 United States Virgin Islands;8 2.

Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of the United States Virgin Islands to self-determination and independence in accordance with the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples;

Reaffirms its conviction that questions of territorial size, geographical location, size of population and limited natural resources should in no way delay the speedy implementation of the Declaration with regard to the Territory;

Requests the Government of the United States of America, as the administering Power, to take all necessary measures, in consultation with the freely elected representatives of the people of the United States Virgin Islands, to expedite the process of the decolonization of the Territory in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and the Declaration contained in General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV);

Reaffirms that it is the obligation of the administering Power, in consultation with the freely elected representatives of the people of the Territory, to inform the local people of the possibilities open to them in the exercise of their inalienable right to self-determination and independence and to. enable them to exercise that right freely and without interference in accordance with General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV);

Reaffirms that the administering Power has the responsibility for taking such measures as will ensure the preservation of the identity and cultural heritage of the people of the Territory;

Urges the administering Power, in consultation with the freely elected representatives of the people of the United States Virgin Islands, to safeguard the inalienable right of the people of the Territory to the enjoyment of their natural resources by aking effective measures which guarantee the right of the ople to own and dispose of those resources and to estab ish and maintain control over their future development;

s the responsibility of the administering Reaffi Power, unde the Charter, for the economic and social development o the United States Virgin Islands and in this regard notes hat, although steady economic progress has continued in he Territory, especially in the area of service industries, t re are still problems which need to be resolved, inclu ing those relating to unemployment and the infrastructure 9.

Notes he sustained efforts undertaken by the territorial Gove ent to diversify the economy and urges the administerin Power, acting in co-operation with the Government of t e United States Virgin Islands, to strengthen the economy f the Territory by, wherever possible, taking additional m asures of diversification in all fields;

Req sts the administering Power to continue to enlist the as · stance of the specialized agencies and other organization of the United Nations system in the development and trengthening of the economy of the United States Virgin Islands;

keq sts the Special Committee to continue the examination f this question at its next session, including the possible ispatch of a further visiting mission to the United State Virgin Islands at an appropriate time and in

VII. consultation with the administering Power, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its thirty-seventh session.

6 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirry-sixth Session. Supplement No. 23 (A/36/23/Rev.l), chaps. III, IV and XXIII.

1 Ibid., Thirty-sixth Session, Fourth Committee, 14th meeting, para,.

' Ibid., Thirty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/36/23/Rev. I), chap.

XXIII

• Ibid., chaps. III and XXVlll.

10 Ibid., Thirty-sixth Session, Fourth Committee, 14th meeting, paras. 1-8.

11 A/AC.109/679 and Add.I.

13 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-~-ixth Session, Sup- ' 4 Ibid., chap. Vil. plement No. 23 (A/36/23/Rev.l), chap. XXVlll.

" A/36/563.

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