A/RES/2700(XXV) GA

92 General Auembl:,-Twenty-fifth Seuion that a United Nations fund be established to provide Noting that the Special Committee on the Situation assistance to Namibians who have suffered from perse- with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration cution and to finance a comprehensive educational and on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Coun- training programme for Namibians, with particular tries and Peoeles has received and examined during regard to their future administrative responsibilities in 1970 three petitions concerning Namibia, in accordance the Territory, with paragraph 3 of General Assembly resolution 1805 Taking into account the assistance provided to (XVII) of 14 December 1962 and within the con- Namibians at present from United Nations agencies and text of the implementation of the Declaration, funds, notably the United Nations High Commissioner Noting further that these petitions relate, inter alia, for Refugees, the United Nations Educational and to the general situation and recent developments con- Training Programme for Southern Africa and the cerning Namibia, to the refusal by South Africa to im- United Nations Trust Fund for South Africa, plement General Assembly resolutions 2145 (XXI) 1. Decides that a comprehensive United Nations and 2248 (S-V) and, in particular, to the continued Fund for Namibia shall be established; implementation by South Africa of the recommenda- 2. Requests the Secretary-General to make a de- tions of the Odendaal Commission, 8 including the re- tailed study and report to the General Assembly at its moval of Africans from their ancestral lands, twenty-sixth session on the development, planning, 1. Notes that the Special Committee on the Situa- execution and administration of a comprehensive pro- tion with regard to the Implementation of the Declara- gramm.e of assistance to Namibians in various fields; tion on the Granting of Independence to Colonial 3. Further requests the Secretary-General to take Countries and Peoples has taken these petitions into into account the observations made during the present account in its consideration of the situation in Namibia session of the General Assembly in regard to the within the context of the implementation of the Declara- establishment of such a programme; tion; 4. Invites the specialized agencies, the Advisory 2. Notes further that those petitions which raised Committee on the United Nations Educational and matters of concern to the United Nations Council for Training Programme for South.em Africa, the Com- Namibia have been brought to the latter's attention by mittee of Trustees of the United Nations Trust Fund the Secretariat and have been taken into consideration for South Africa, the Ad Hoe Sub-Committee estab- by the Council in the performance of the functions lished in pursuance of Security Council resolution 276 assigned to it by the General Assembly in resolutions (1970) of 30 January 1970, the United Nations 2248 (S-V), 2325 (XXII), 2403 (XXIII) and 2517 Council for Namibia, the United Nations Hi~ Com- (XXIV); missioner for Refugees and the Organization° African 3. Draws the attention of the petitioners concerned Unity to provide advice and assistance, as may be re- to the report on the Territory submitted by the Special quired by the Secretary-General, in the preparation of the study and the report referred to in paragraph 2 Committee, 8 to the resolutions on the question of above; Namibia adopted by the General Assembly at its twenty-fifth session and to the report of the United 5. Decides that, in anticipation of the report of the Nations Council for Namibia.to Secretary-General on the matter, a decision on the ex- tent of the financial implications of the programme 1923rd plenary meeting, should be deferred to the twenty-sixth session of the 9 December 1970. General Assembly; 6. Authorizes the Secretary-General, in the mean- time, in consultation with the Chairman of the Ad- visory Committee on the United Nations Educational and Training Programme for Southern Africa, the Chairman of the Committee of Trustees of the United Nations Trust Fund for South Africa and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to make interim grants from the regular budget of the United Nations for 1971, not exceeding a total amount of $50,000 over and above the assistance provided at present, in order to enable the existing Umted Nations programmes to provide greater assistance, as necessary, to Nanuoians. 1923rd plenary meeting, 9 December 1970. 2680 (XXV). Petition& concerning Namibia The General Assembly, Bearing in mind the special responsibilities of the United Nations with regard to Namibia, including in particular those set out in General Assembly resolu- tions 2145 (XXI) of 27 October 1966, 2248 (S-V) of 19 May 1967, 2325 (XXII) of 16 December 1967, 2403 (XXIII) of 16 December 1968 and 2517 (XXIV) of 1 December 1969, 2700 (XXV). Question of Papua and the Tru•t 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 containing the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, Recalling its previous resolutions concerning Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea, in particular resolution 2590 (XXIV) of 16 December 1969, Having considered the report of the Trusteeship Council covering the period from 20 June 1969 to 19 June 197011 and the relevant chapter of the report of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Grantinf ()f Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, 1 s Commission of Enquiry into South West Africa Affain, established in 1962 by the Government of South Africa under the chairmanship of Mr. F. H. Odenda.al. 8 Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/8023/Rev.1), chapter V. 10 Ibid., Supplement No. 24 {A/8024). 11 Ibid., Supplement No. 4 (A/8004). 12 Ibid., Supplement No. 23 (A/8023/Rev.1), chapter XIV. Resolutions adopted on the reporta of the Fourth Committee 9S Having heard the statement of the representative of the administering Power,13 Having heard the statements of the petitioners, 13 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, Mindful of the responsibility 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. Takes note of the arrangements made by the Trusteeship Council, in accordance with paragraph 5 of resolution 2590 (XXIV) and in consultation with the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Grant- ing of Independence to Colonial Countries and Pec>J>les, concerning the composition of its forthcoming pencxlic visiting mission to the Trust Territory of New Guinea in 1971; 4. Invites the administering Power to co-operate fully with the visiting mission and to provide it with all the necessary facilities and assistance in the per- formance of its tasks; 5. Calls upon the administering Power to prescribe, in consultation with the freely elected representatives of the people, a specific time-table for the free exercise by the people of Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea of their right to self-determination and in- dependence, and to report to the Trusteeship Council and to the Special Committee on the action taken in that regard; 6. Requests the administering Power to intensify and accelerate the education and technical and ad- ministrative training of the indigenous peoples of the Territories and the localization of the public service; 1. Requests the Trusteeship Council and the Special Committee to continue to examine this question and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its twenty-sixth session. 1928th plenary meeting, 14 December 1970. 2701 (XXV). Information from Non-Sell-Govern• ing Territories transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 1970 (XVIII) of 16 De- cember 1963, in which it requested the Special Com- mittee on the Situation with regard to the Implemen- tation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples to study the information transmitted to the Secretary- 13 Ibid., Twenty-fifth Session, Fourth Committee, 1905th meeting. General in accordance with Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations and to take such information fully into account in examining the situation with re- gard to the implementation of the Declaration, Rec.-..lling also its resolution 2422 (XXIII) of 18 December 1968 by which the General Assembly, inter alia, requested the Special Committee to continue to discharge the functions entrusted to it under resolu- tion 1970 (XVIII), in accordance with the procedures approved by the Assembly in its resolution 2109 (XX) of 21 December 1965, Recalling further the provisions of paragraph 6 of its resolution 2558 (XXIV) of_ 12 December 1969, in which it once again urged the administerini Powers concerned to transmit, or continue to transmit, to the Secretary-General the information prescribed in Article 73 e of the Charter, as well as the fullest possible in- formation on political and constitutional developments in the Territories concerned, Having examined the chapter of the report of the Special Committee dealing with the transmittal of in- formation under Article 73 e of the Charter and the action taken by it in respect of that information, 14 Having also examined the report of the Secretary- General on this item, 1G 1. Approves the chapter of the report of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Im- plementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples re- lating to the information from Non-Self-Governing Ter- ritories transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations; 2. Deeply deplores that, despite the repeated rec- ommendations of the General Assembly and the Special Committee, some Member States having responsibilities for the administration of Non-Self-Governing Ter- ritories still have not seen fit to transmit information under Article 73 e of the Charter, have transmitted insufficient information or have transmitted informa- tion too late; 3. Condemns the Government of Portugal for its continued refusal to transmit information under Article 73 e of the Charter with regard to ,the colonial Ter- ritories under its domination, despite repeated requests by the General Assembly; 4. Considers that, in the absence of a decision by the General Assembly itself that the Territories of An- tigua, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, St. Lucia and St. Vincent have attained a full measure of self-government in terms of Chapter XI of the Charter, the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland should continue to trans- mit information under Article 73 e of the Charter with respect to those Territories; 5. Once again urges the administering Powers con- cerned to transmit, or continue to transmit, to the Secretary-General the information prescribed in Article 73 e of the Charter, as well as the fullest possible in- formation on political and constitutional developments in the Territories concerned; 6. Reiterates its request that the administering Powers concerned transmit such information as early 14 Ibid., Twenty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/8023/ Rev.1), chapter XXI. u Ibid., Twenty-fifth Session, Annexes, agenda item 61, documents A/8134 and Add.I.

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