A/RES/1607(XV) GA

10 General Assembly - Fifteenth Session to be constituted in Ruanda-Urundi will give urgent consideration to these problems",5 Recalling that the Trusteeship Council and the Com- mittee on Rural Economic Development have in the past made various studies of the problem of population, land utilization and land tenure system in Ruanda- U rundi, Bearing in mind that the majority of the petitioners are agreed that this problem is of vital importance to the Territory, Considering that a satisfactory land tenure system is essential to the peaceful evolution and satisfactory eco- nomic development of newly independent territories, 1. Recommends that the Administering Authority urgently request the United Nations and the specialized agencies, under the technical assistance programmes, to dispatch an expert mission to study the problem of land tenure and land utilization in Ruanda-Urundi, in co- operation with the local authorities, with a view to de- termining how far the present system is prejudicial to the Territory's social and economic development, and to recommend corrective measures; 2. Expresses the hope that the Technical Assistance Board and the specialized agencies concerned will give favourable consideration to such a request. 994th plenary meeting, 21 April 1961. 1607 (XV). Dissemination of information on the United Nations and the International Trusteeship Sy,stem in Trust Territories The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 1276 (XIII) of 5 December 1958 and resolution 1410 (XIV) of 5 December 1959 whereby the General Assembly, inter alia, requested the Secretary-General to initiate discussions with the Ad- ministering Authorities of Trust Territories with a view to establishing, during 1960, in at least some of the larger Trust Territories, such as Tanganyika, Ruanda- Urundi and New Guinea, United Kations information centres in which the responsible positions would be occupied preferably by indigenous inhabitants of the Trust Territories concerned, Having perused the report of the Secretary-General6 prepared in accordance with General Assembly resolu- tion 1410 (XIV), and observing therefrom that the dissemination of information on the United Nations among the peoples of the Trust Territories is still far from satisfactory, Keeping in view the special status of Trust Territories and their inhabitants and also the General Assembly's own special responsibilities under Chapters XII and XIII of the Charter of the United Nations, Reiterating that it is essential, in the General As- sembly's view, that the peoples of Trust Territories should receive adequate information concerning the purposes and operation of the United Nations and of the International Trusteeship System, the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples contained in Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, 5 Official Records of the General Assl'mbly, Fifteenth Session, Supplement No. 4 (A/4404), part II, chapter II, para. 184. 'Ibid., Fifteenth Session, Annexes, agenda item 46, docu- ments A/4542 and Add.I. 1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on dissemination of information on the United Nations and the International Trusteeship System in Trust Territories ; 2. Considers that United Nations information centres constitute one of the most important means of dissemi- nating information about the United Nations in these Territories; 3. Takes note of the statement of the representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland that, as a result of discussions between the Secretary-General and the Administering Authority, steps have been taken to establish, in the near future, a United Nations information centre in Tanganyika; 4. Takes further note of the recommendation in paragraph 224 of the interim report of the United Nations Commission for Ruanda-Urundi3 that a United Nations information centre should be set up with all possible speed in Ruanda-l:'rundi; 5. Requests the Secretary-General to take the neces- sary action to establish, without any further delay, in Tanganyika, Ruanda-Urundi and New Guinea, United Nations information centres in which the responsible positions would be occupied by indigenous inhabitants of the Trust Territories concerned; 6. Invites the Administering Authorities to extend their co-operation and assistance to the Secretary- General in implementing the present resolution ; 7. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure the im- mediate and mass publication and the widest possible circulation and dissemination, in all the Trust Terri- tories through all media of mass communication, of the Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples ; 8. Requests that the information referred to in the present resolution should be disseminated in the prin- cipal local languages as well as in the language of the Administering Authority; 9. Further requests the Secretary-General to prepare for the Trusteeship Council at its twenty-seventh ses- sion and for the General Assembly at its sixteenth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution. 994th plenary meeting, 21 April 1961. 1608 (XV). The future of the Trust Territory of the Cameroons under United Kingdom administration The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 1350 (XIII) of 13 March 1959 concerning the future of the Trust Territory of the Cameroons under United Kingdom administration in which the General Assembly recommended, inter alia, that the Administering Authority take steps, in comultation with the L'nited Nations Plebiscite Com- missioner for the Cameroons under United Kingdom Administration, to organize, under the supervision of the United Nations, separate plebiscites in the northern and southern parts of the Cameroons under United Kingdom administration, in order to ascertain the wishes of the inhabitants oi the Territory concerning their future, and that the plebiscite in the Northern Cameroons be held about the middle of November 1959

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