A/RES/2590(XXIV) GA

Resolutions adopted on the reports ol the Fourth Committee 73 5. Requests the Secretary-General to intensify, in consultation with the Special Committee on the Situa- tion with regard to the Implementation of the Declara- tion on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, the wide dissemination of infor- mation about conditions in the Territory; 6. Requests the Special Committee to follow devel- opments in the Territory and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its twenty-fifth session. 1831 st plenary meeting, 12 December 1969. 2590 (XXIV). Question of Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea The General Assembly, Recalling the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, Recalling further its resolutions 2227 (XXI) of 20 December 1966, 2348 (XXII) of 19 December 1967 and 2427 (XXIII) of 18 December 1968, Having considered the report of the Trusteeship Council covering the period from 20 June 1968 to 19 June 196923 and the relevant chapter of the report of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Grant- ing of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peo- ples, 24 Having heard the statement of the representative of the administering Power,25 Taking into account the observations of the Special Committee and the Trusteeship Council regarding de- velopments in Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea, Taking into account the views expressed by the Special Committee urging the administering Power to reconsider its position concerning visiting missions and allow a sub-committee to visit Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea, Mindful of the responsibilities of the United Nations to render all help to the people of Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea in their efforts freely to decide their own future, 1. Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea to self- determination and independence in accordance with General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) and the Trusteeship Agreement of 13 December 1946; 2. Reaffirms further its previous resolutions regard- ing Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea; 3. Calls upon the administering Power to take all necessary steps to transfer full powers in the executive and legislative branches of government to elected repre- sentatives of the people, in accordance with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples of the Territories; 4. Requests the administering Power to intensify and accelerate the education and technical and admin- istrative training of the indigenous peoples of the Terri- tories; 23 fbid., Twenty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 4 (A/7604). 24 Ibid., Supplement No. 23 (A/7623/Rev.I ), chapter XX. 25 fbid., Twenty-fourth Session, Fourth Committee, 1859th meeting. 5. Requests the Trusteeship Council to include in its periodic visiting missions to the Trust Territory of New Guinea non-members of the Trusteeship Council, in consultation with the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colo- nial Countries and Peoples and the Administering Authority, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations; 6. Calls upon the Administering Authority to co- operate fully with the visiting mission and to provide it with all the necessary facilities and assistance in the performance of its tasks; 7. Requests the Trusteeship Council and the Spe- cial Committee to continue to examine this question and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its twenty-fifth session. 1835th plenary meeting, 16 December 1969. 2591 (XXIV). Question of Spanish Sahara The General Assembly, Having examined 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 relat- ing to the Territory of the so-called Spanish Sahara,26 Recalling its resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960 containing the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, Recalling also the decision concerning the Terri- tories under Spanish administration taken by the As- sembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity at its third ordinary session, held at Addis Ababa from 5 to 9 November 1966, Reaffirming its resolutions 2072 (XX) of 16 De- cember 1965, 2229 (XXI) of 20 December 1966, 2354 (XXII) of 19 December 1967 and 2428 (XXIII) of 18 December 1968, 1. Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of the so-called Spanish Sahara to self-determination in accordance with General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV); 2. Approves the chapter of the report of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Imple- mentation of the Declaration on the Granting of Inde- pendence to Colonial Countries and Peoples relating to the Territory of the so-called Spanish Sahara; 3. Regrets that it has not yet been possible for the consultations to take place which the administering Power was to conduct in connexion with the holding of a referendum in the so-called Spanish Sahara; 4. Again invites the administering Power to deter- mine at the earliest possible date, in conformity with the aspirations of the indigenous people of the so-called Spanish Sahara and in consultation with the Govern- ments of Mauritania and Morocco and any other in- terested party, the procedures for the holding of a referendum under United Nations auspices with a view to enabl~ng the ind~genc:ms population of t~e Territory to exercise freely its nght to self-determmation and to this end: ' 26 Jbid., Twenty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 23 (Al 7623/Rcv.l), chapter X.

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