A/RES/3159(XXVIII) GA

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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