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Petitions From the Ngoa-Ekele Community, Cameroons Under French Administration, Concerning Adjustment of Their Land Complaint

A/RES/757(VIII)No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1954.

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 topics
Cameroons Under French AdministrationCompensationIndigenous PeoplesLand RightsLegal RemediesPetitionsResettlement

What does this mandate say?

5 operative paragraphs
1
Notes the steps already taken by the Administer~ ing Authority to assist the Ngoa-Ekele Community to settle on other lands ;
2
Suggests to the Administering Authority to take all necessary steps which can in a satisfactory manner 23 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Eighth Session, Supplement No. 4.
u See, docui;aent A/C,.__4/255.
25 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Eighth Session, Fourth Committee, 382nd and 387th meetings.
26 Ibid. General AHemhly-Eighth Session alleviate the difficulties experienced by the N goa-Ekele Community in the process of their re-establishment;
Recommends that assistance be also given by the Administering Authority to the Ngoa-Ekele Community for it to avail itself of whatever legal recourse remains open in connexion with the lands on which they were originally settled and whatever further compensation might be possible;
4
Recommends to the Administering Authority to
further its purpose of allotting to the Ngoa-Ekele Community an adequate area of lands by delimiting these lands in accordance with the legal procedures obtaining in the Trust Territory;
5
Invites the Trusteeship Council to examine this question in the light of the present resolution and to include in its next report to the General Assembly the results of its examination.
9 December 1953.

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