A/RES/2879(XXVI) GA

Resolutions adopted without referenee to a Main Committee 17 the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and poses a threat to international peace and security; 5. Reaffirms its recognition of the legitimacy of the struggle of the colonial peoples and peoples under alien domination to exercise their right to self-deter- mination and independence by all the necessary means at their disposal, and notes with satisfaction the progress made in the colonial Territories by the national liberation movements, both through their struggle and through reconstruction programmes; 6. Condemns the policies, pursued by certain colonial Powers in the Territories under their domina- tion, of imposing non-representative régimes and consti- tutions, strengthening the position of foreign economic and other interests, misleading world public opinion and encouraging the systematic influx of foreign immi- grants while evicting, displacing and transferring the indigenous inhabitants to other areas, and calls upan those Powers to desist forthwith from such policies; 7. Urges all States and the specialized agencies and other organizations within the United N ations system to provide, in consultation, as appropriate, with the Organization of African Unity, moral and material assistance to all peoples struggling for their freedom and independence in the colonial Territories and, in particular, to the national liberation movements of the Territories in southern Africa, and in that connexion draws the attention of all States to the Assistance Fund for the Struggle against Colonialism and Apartheid of the Organization of African Unity;50 8. Requests all States, directly and through their action in the specialized agencies and other organiza- tions within the United Nations system, to withhold or continue to withhold assistance of any kind from the Governments of Portugal and South Africa and from the illegal racist minority régime in Southern Rhodesia until they renounce their policy of colonial domination and racial discrimination; 9. Requests the colonial Powers to withdraw imme- diately and unconditionally their military bases and installations from colonial Territories and to refrain from establishing new ones; 1 O. Requests the Special Committee to continue to seek suitable means for the immediate and full implementation of General Assembly resolutions 1514 (XV) and 2621 (XXV) in all Territories which have not yet attained independence and, in particular, to formulate specific proposals for the elimination of the remaining manifestations of colonialism and report thereon to the General Assembly at its twenty-seventh session; 11. Requests the Special Committee to make con- crete suggestions which could assist the Security Coun- cil in considering appropriate measures under the Charter with regard to developments in colonial Terri- tories which are likely to threaten international peace and security, and recommends that the Council take such suggestions fully into consideration; 12. Requests the Special Committee to undertake a special study on the compliance of Member States with the Declaration and with other relevant resolu- tions on decolonization, particularly those relating to the Territories under Portuguese domination, Namibia and Southern Rhodesia, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its twenty-seventh session; 50 lbid., Supplement No. 23 (A/8423/Rev.1), chap. V, annex, appendix V. 13. Requests the Special Committee to intensify its consideration of the small Territories and to recom- mend to the General Assembly the most appropriate methods and also the steps to be taken to enable the populations of those Territories to exercise fully and without further delay their right to self-determination and independence; 14. Endorses the proposal of the Special Com- mittee to take steps, in consultation with the Organiza- tion of African Unity, to enable representatives of national liberation movements in the colonial Ter- ritories in southern Africa to participate, whenever necessary and in an appropriate capacity, in its delibera- tions relating to those Territories; 15. Requests the administering Powers to co-operate with the Special Committee in the discharge of its mandate and, in particular, to participate in the work of the Committee relating to the Territories under their administration; 16. Calls upan the administering Powers to co- operate fully with the Special Committee by permitting the access of visiting groups to the colonial Territories in arder to secure first-hand information conceming the Territories and to ascertain the wishes and aspira- tions of the inhabitants of those Territories under their administration; 17. Requests the Special Committee to assist the Economic and Social Council in the study envisaged in Council resolution 1651 (LI) of 29 October 1971, bearing in mind the need to enlist the support of non-govemmental organizations in consultative status with the Council in the achievement of the objectives of the Declaration and in the implementation of the relevant rcsolutions of the United Nations; 18. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Special Committee with the facilities and personnel necessary for the implementation of the present resolu- tion as well as the various resolutions on decoloniza- tion adopted by the General Assembly and the Special Committee. 2028th plenary meeting, 20 December 1971. 2879 (XXVI). Dissemination of information on decolonization The General Assembly, Having examined the chapters 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 relating to the question of publicity for the work of the United Nations in the field of decolonization,~1 Recalling its resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 Decem- ber 1960, containing the Declaration on the Granting of lndependence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, and its resolution 2621 (XXV) of 12 October 1970, containing the programme of action for the full imple- mentation of the Declaration, Conscious of the urgent need to intensify widespread and continuous dissemination of information on the work of the United Nations in the field of decoloniza- tion, on the situation in the colonial Territories and on the continuing struggle for liberation being waged 51 /bid., chap. I, paras. 86-101, and chap. V. 18 General Assembly-Twenty-sixth Session by the colonial peoples and the activities of their national liberation movements, Taking into account the suggestions of the Special Committee as well as the views of the Office of Public Information on the implementation of these suggestions, as reflected in the relevant chapters of the report of the Special Committee, Taking into account the recommendations of the Fifth Committee112 relating to the report of the Secretary- General on the review and reappraisal of United Nations information policies and activities,113 and noting the report of the Secretary-General on the joint meeting 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, the Special Committee on Apartheid and the United Nations Council for Namibia,114 Recognizing the importance of publicity as an instru- ment for furthering the aims and purposes of the Dec- laration and the need for the Office of Public Informa- tion to intensify its efforts to acquaint world public opinion with ali aspects of the problems of decoloniza- tion, l. Approves the chapters 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 relating to the question of publicity for the work of the United Nations in the field of decolonization; 2. Atfirms the vital importance of urgently effecting the widest possible dissemination of information on the evils and dangers of colonialism, the continuing struggle for liberation being waged by the colonial peo- ples, particularly in southern Africa, and the efforts being made by the intemational community to eliminate the remaining vestiges of colonialism in all its forms and manifestations; 3. Requests the Secretary-General, having regard to the suggestions of the Special Committee, to con- tinue to take concrete measures through all the media at bis disposal, including publications, radio and television, to give widespread and continuous publicity to the work of the United Nations in the field of decolonization, to the situation in the colonial Terri- tories and to the continuing struggle for liberation being waged by the colonial peoples and, inter alia: (a) To intensify the activities of the information centres Iocated in southern Africa, including the estab- lishment of an additional information centre where appropriate; ( b) To maintain a close working relationship with the Organization of African Unity by holding periodic 112 A/C.5/L.1068/Rev.2. For the text of this document, see Offecial Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-sixth Ses- sion, Annexes, agenda item 76, document A/8531/ Add.1, para. 137. ll3 A/C.5/1320/Rev.1 and Add.1. 114 A/8388. * consultations and a systematic exchange of the relevant information with that organization; (e) To enlist, from the non-govemmental organiza- tions in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and from those non-govemmental organ- izations having a special interest in the field of de- colonization, support in the dissemination of the relevant information; (d) To continue to publish, in consultation with the Special Committee, selected issues of the periodical Objective: Justice and the bulletin "United Nations and Southern Africa" in other languages besides English and French; 4. Requests Member States, in particular the ad- ministering Powers, to co-operate fully with the Secre- tary-General in the discharge of the tasks entrusted to him under paragraph 3 above; 5. Invites all States, the specialized agencies and other organizations within the United Nations system and non-govemmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, as well as other non-govemmental organizations having a special interest in the field of decolonization, to under- take, in co-operation with the Secretary-General and within their respective spheres of competence, the large-scale dissemination of the information referred to in paragraph 2 above; 6. Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the Special Committee, to collect and prepare on a continuous basis for redissemination by the Office of Public Information, basic material, studies and articles relating to various aspects of the problems of decolonization; 1. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Special Committee on the implementation of the present resolution; 8. Requests the Special Committee to continue to examine the question at its next session and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its twenty-seventh session. 2028th plenary meeting, 20 December 1971. 2903 ,(XXVI). Appointment of the Secretary• General of the United Nations The General Assembly, Acting in accordance with the recommendation con- tained in Security Council resolution 306 (1971) of 21 December 1971,55 Appoints Mr. Kurt Waldheim Secretary-General of the United Nations for a tenn of office beginning on 1 January 1972 and ending on 31 December 1976. 2031st plenary meeting, 2 2 December 1971. 55 See Offecial Records of the General Assembly, Twenty- sixth Session, Annexes, agenda item 18, document A/8496. * *

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