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VII. Resolutions adopted on the reports of the Fourth Committee 127 Samoa and to work out concrete programmes of as- sistance and economic development for the Territory; 6. Requests the administering Power to consider favourably inviting a United Nations mission to visit American Samoa for the purpose of observing condi- tions in the Territory and learning first-hand of the aspirations of the people concerning their political status; 7. Urges the administering Power, with the co- operation of the Government of American Samoa, to safeguard the inalienable right of the people of the Territory to the enjoyment of their natural resources by taking effective measures which guarantee the rights of the people to own and dispose of those natural resources and to establish and maintain control of their future development; 8. Requests the administering Power to continue to enlist the assistance of the specialized agencies and other organizations within the United Nations system in accelerating progress in all sectors of the national life of American Samoa; 9. Requests the Special Committee to continue to seek the best ways and means for the implementation of the Declaration with respect to American Samoa, including the possible dispatch of a visiting mission in consultation with the administering Power, and to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-second ses- sion on the implementation of the present resolution. 85th plenary meeting I December 1976 31/ 56. Question of Brunei The General Assembly, Having considered the question of Brunei, Having examined 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,54 Recalling its resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, containing the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, as well as other relevant resolutions and decisions of the United Nations relating to the Territory, including in particular the consensus on the question adopted by the General Assembly on 13 December 197 4, 55 Recalling also its resolution 3424 (XXX) of 8 December 1975, 1. Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of Brunei to self-determination and independence in ac- cordance with the Declaration on the Granting of Inde- pendence to Colonial Countries and Peoples; 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 Brunei; 3. Notes that no progress has been achieved so far in the implementation of General Assembly resolution 3424 (XXX); 54 Jbid., chap. XVIU. 55 Ibid., Twenty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 31 (A/9631 ), p. 117, item 23. 4. Calls upon all parties concerned to work towards the early implementation of resolution 3424 (XXX); 5. Calls again upon the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, con- sistent with its responsibility as the administering Power, to take all steps within its competence to facil- itate expeditiously the holding of free and democratic elections by the appropriate government authorities in Brunei, in consultation with and under the supervision of the United Nations, in accordance with the inalien- ab!,e right of the people of Brunei to self-determination and independence, and further calls, prior to the elec- tions, for the lifting of the ban on all political parties and the return of all political exiles to Brunei so that they can participate freely and fully in the elections; 6. Calls upon the administering Power, in conform- ity with the provisions of the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, to extend full co-operation to the Special Committee; 7. Requests the Special Committee to continue to keep the situation in the Territory under review and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its thirty- second session. 85th plenary meeting 1 December 1976 31/57. Question of the United States Virgin Islands The General Assembly, Having considered the question of the United States Virgin Islands, Having examined the relevant chapters 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,"6 RPcalling its resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, containing the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, and all other resolutions and decisions of the United Nations relating to the United States Virgin Islands, Conscious of the need to promote progress towards the full implementation of the Declaration with respect to the United States Virgin Islands, Bearing in mind the constructive results achieved as a consequence of previous visiting missions to Non- Self-Governing Territories and reiterating its conviction that the dispatch of such missions is essential for secur- ing adequate and first-hand information in regard to the conditions prevailing in those Territories and to the views, wishes and aspirations of the peoples therein with respect to their future status, Mindful that the United States Virgin Islands requires the continued attention and assistance of the United ~ations in t!1e a~hievement by its people of the objec- tives embodied m the Charter of the United Nations and in the Declaration, Aware of the special circumstances of the geo- graphical location and economic conditions of the Ter- ritory, and stressing the necessity of diversifying its 56 Ibid., Thirty-first Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/31/23/ Rev.I), chaps. III and XXXI.

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