A/RES/3157(XXVIII) GA

Resolutions adopted on the reports of the Fourth Committee 107 Territories, and to report to the Genera,} Assembly at its twenty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution. 2202nd plenary meeting 14 December 1973 3157 (XXVIII). Question of Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands and United States Virgin Islands The General Assembly, Having considered the question of Bermuda, Briti-h Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands and 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, 65 Recalling its resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, containing the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, and its resolution 2621 (XXV) of 12 October 1970, con• taining the programme of action for the full implementa- tion of the Declaration, Recalling also its previous resolutions relating to the Territories listed above, in particular resolution 2984 (XXVII) of 14 December 1972, Noting with concern that many of the provisions of the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, as well as the related recommendations of the Special Committee, remain unimplemented as regards those Territories, in particular with respect to the establish- ment of a specific time-table for the exercise by the peoples of those Territories of their right to self- determination and independence, Deploring the continued refusal of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in contravention of the provisions of the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, to co-operate with the Special Committee in its examination of the Terri- tories under that Government's administration, Deeply deploring the attitude of the administering Powers concerned, which continue to refuse to allow United Nations missions to visit the Territories under their administration, Concerned that the economies of those Territories are based mainly on fluctuating activities such as tourism, land sales and tax haven arrangements, Bearing in mind that recent visiting missions to small Territories have demonstrated their usefulness, and reiterating its conviction that the dispatch of visiting missions to the above-mentioned Territories is indis- pensable for securing adequate and first-hand informa- tion in regard to the political, economic and social conditions in the Territories and to the views, wishes and aspirations of the people therein, Mindful that those Territories require the continued attention and assistance of the United Nations in the achievement by their peoples of the objectives embodied in the Charter of the United Nations and in the Dec- claration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, 1111 Ibid., chaps. II and XXIII-XXV. Aware of the special circumstances of the geogra- phical location and economic conditions of the Terri- tories, 1. Approves the chapters 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 Territories of Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands and United States Virgin Islands;66 2. Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of those Territories to self-determination and independence in accordance with the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples; 3. Calls upon the administering Powers concerned to take all the necessary steps, without further delay, to ensure the full and speedy attainment of the goals set forth in the Declaration with respect to the Terri- tories and, in that regard, to establish, in consultation with the freely elected representatives of the people, a specific time-table for the free exercise by the peoples of the Territories of their right to self-determination and independence; 4. Reaffirms its conviction that the questions of territorial size, geographical isolation and limited re- sources should in no way delay the implementation of the Declaration with respect to the Territories concerned; 5. Calls upon the Governments of the United King- dom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America, as the administering Powers concerned, to reconsider their attitude towards the receiving of United Nations visiting missions to the above-mentioned Territories and to permit access by such missions to Territories under their administration; 6. Calls upon the Government of the United King- dom. as an administering Power, to participate in the relevant proceedings of the Special Committee concern- ing the Territories under its administration and, in particular, to report to the Special Committee on the implementation of the present resolution; 7. Calls upon the administering Powers concerned to take all possible steps to diversify the economics of the Territories listed above; 8. Urges the administering Powers to safeguard the inalienabl.e right of the peoples of those Territories to the enjoyment of their natural resources by taking effective measures which guarantee the rights of the peoples to own and di~pose of those natural resources and to establish and maintain control of their future development; 9. Requests the organizations of the United Nations system to assist in accelerating progress in all sectors of the national life of those Territories; 10. Invites the Secretary-General, having regard to the mandate entrusted to him in General Assembly resolution 3164 (XXVIII) of 14 December '.~,7~, to pay particular regard to the need to intensi· wide- spread dissemination of information on the pi, ~·~ss of decolonization in respect of the Territories listed above and. in particular, to consider intensifying the activities of the information centres concerned; 11. Requests the Special Committee to c;>ntinue to give full consideration to this question, including in M Ibid., chaps. XXIIT-XXV. 108 General Assembly-Twenty-eighth Seasion particular the dispatch of visiting missions to those Territories, and to report to the General Assembly at its twenty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution. 2202nd plenary meeting 14 December 197 3 3158 (XXVIII). Question of the Seychelles The General Assembly, Having considered the question of the Seychelles, Having examined the relevant chapters of the report of the Jpecial Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples,57 Recalling its resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, containing the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, and its resolution 2621 (XXV) of 12 October 1970, con- taining the programme of action for the full implementa- tion of the Declaration,, Recalling also its resolutions 2985 (XXVII) of 14 December 1972 concerning the question, . Reaffirming that the Seychelles should accede to ~ndep:ndence without any prejudice to their territorial mtegnty, Deploring that it has not been possible to send a special. mission of the United Nations to the Territory, as envisaged under General Assembly resolution 2866 (XXVI) of 20 December 1971, I. Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of !he Seychel_Ies 1£? self-determination and independence m conformity with General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV), and calls upon the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as the administering Power, to take all necessary meas~res to enable the people to exercise that right without further delay; . 2. Request~· .the administering Power, in accordance with the prov1s1ons of the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, to receive the special mission of the United Nations envisaged under resolution 2866 (XXVI) and to make the necessary arrangements in consultation with the special mission, for the holding as soon as practicable of a referendum on the future status of the Territory; 3. Requests the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries ~nd P~ople~ to co~tinue its examination of the question, mcludmg m particular the dispatch of the special mission referred to above, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its twenty-ninth session. 2202nd plenary meeting 14 December 1973 3159 (XXVIII). Question of Brunei The General Assembly, Having considered the question of Brune~, Having examined the relevant chapters of the report of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard n Ibid .. chaps. III, V and X. to the Implernen,tation of the Declaration on the Grant- ing of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples,58 Recalling its resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 Decem- ber 1960, containing the Declaration on the Granting of Independence 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, Recalling further its resolution 2978 (XXVII) of 14 December 1972, whereby it reaffirmed inter alia that, in the absence of a decision by the General Assem- bly itself that a Non-Self-Governing Territory has attained a full measure of self-government in terms of Chapter XI of the Charter of the United Nations, the administering Power concerned should continue, to transmit information under Article 73 e of the Charter with respect to that Territory, 1. Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of Brunei to self-determination in conformity 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 Brunei;59 3. Requests the administering Power, in accordance with the recommendation of the Special Committee, to furnish such information as may be required by the Special Committee and, in partirular, to participate, in conformity with the provisions of related resolutions of the General Assembly, in the relevant proceedings of the Special Committee, as well as to receive in the Territory a United Nations visiting mission composed of members drawn from the Special Committee; . 4. Req_uests the Special Committee to report on this question to the General Assembly at its twenty- ninth session. 2202nd plenary meeting 14 December 1973 3160 (XXVIII). Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) The General Assembly, Having considered the question of the Falkland Islands ( Malvin as), Recalling its resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 Decem- ber 1960 containing the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, Recalling also its resolution 2065 (XX) of 16 De- cember 1965, in which it invited the Governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nort~e~n Ireland to proceed without delay with the negotiat10ns recommended by the Special Com- mittee on the Situation with regard to the Implementa- tion of the Declaration on the Granting of Inde- pendence to Colonial Countries and Peoples with a view to finding a peaceful solution to the problem of the ~~lkland Isla~ds (Malvinas), bearing in mind the prov1s1ons and obJectives of the Charter of the United Nations and of resolution 1514 (XV) and the interests of the population of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas), 58 Ibid., chaps. III and XXI. 119 lbid., chap. XXI.

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