A/RES/2431(XXIII) GA

Resolutions adopted on the reporta of the Fourth Committee 65 5. Urges the administering Powers to allow United Nations visiting groups to visit the Territories and to extend to them ful! co-operation and assistance ; 6. Decides that the United Nations should render ali help to the peoples of these Territories in their efforts freely to decide their future status; 7. Requests the Special Committee to continue to pay special attention to these Territories and to report to the General Assembly at its twenty-fourth session on the implementation. of the present resolution. 1747th plenary meeting, 18 December 1968. 2431 (XXIII). United Nations Educational and Training Programme for Southern Africa The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 2349 (XXII) of 19 Decem- ber 1967 by which the special educational and training programP-Ies for South West Africa, the special train- ing programme for Territories under Portuguese ad- ministration and the educational and training pro- ~ramme for South Africans were consolidated and 11].tegrated, and its resolution 2372 (XXII) of 12 J une 1968 on the question of Namibia, H aving considered the report of the Secretary- General,21 Recalling paragraph 14 of its resolution 2395 (XXIII) of 29 November 1968 concerning the question of the Territories under Portuguese administration, in which it invited the Secrctary-General to develop and expand training programmes for inhabitants of these Territories, and chapter II, section D, of the report of the United Nations Council for Namibia,22 21 [bid., agenda item 70, documents A/7284 and Add.1. 22 [bid., Twenty-third Session, agenda item 64, document A/ 7338 and Corr.1. * N oting with concern -that the voluntary contributions in 1968 have been inadequate and sharing the Secretary- General' s concern over the future of the United Nations Educational and Training Programme for Southern Africa, Strongly convinced that the provision of assistance for the education and training of persons from the Territories concerned is essential and that it is therefore desirable to strengthen and expand the Programme, l. Appeals to ali States, organizations and indivi- duals to make generous contributions to the United N ations Educational and Training Programme for Southern Africa; 2. Requests the Secretary-General to establish an Advisory Committee on the United Nations Educa- tional and Training- Programme for Southern Africa composed of representatives of Member States to advise him: (a) On the strengthening and expansion of the Pro- gramme, including, in particular, the promoting of contributions ; ( b) On the granting of subventions to educational and training institutions in Africa in order to enable them to provide places for persons who come under this Programme ; (e) On any other matters concerning the Programme on which the Secretary-General may seek advice; 3. Decides that as a further transitional measure provision shall be made under section 12 of the regular budget for the financia! year 1969 of an amount of $100,000 to ensure the continuity of the Programme pending- the receipt of adequate voluntary contribu- tions; 4. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its twenty-fourth session on the progress of the Programme. 1747th plenary meeting, 18 December 1968. * * Other decisions lmplementation of the Declaration on the Grantii1,,, of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peopfos (ltem 23) At its 1692nd plenary meeting, on 11 October 1968, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Fourth Committee,23 adopted the following text as representing the consensus of the members oí the Assembly: "l. Having considered the chapter of the report 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 relating to Equatorial Guinea,24 including the report of the United Nations Mission for the Supervision of the Referendum and the Elections in Equatorial Guinea (1968),25 the General Assembly takes note of that report and expresses its appreciation of the work done by the Mission. "2. The General Assembly also expresses its appreciation to the ad- ministering Power for making it possible for the United Nations presence to be established in the Territory as called for in General Assembly resolntion 2355 (XXII) of 19 December 1967 and to the Secretary-Gener;il for the action taken by him in this regard. 23 [bid., Twenty-third Session, Annexes, agenda item 23, document A/7265, para. 5. 24 [bid., addendum to agenda item 23 (A/7200/Rev.l ), chapter IX. 25 [bid., chapter IX, annex VI.

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