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Resolutions adopted on the reports of the Fourth Committee Ill of educational and training grants and facilities and, at the same time, to ensure that adequate resources are made available for the education and training of the people of Zimbabwe; 11. Requests the Government of the United King- dom, in keeping with its express readiness to do so,67 to co-operate with the Special Committee on the Situ- ation with regard to the Implementation of the Dec- laration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in the discharge of the mandate entrusted to the latter by the General Assembly, and to report to the Special Committee and to the Assem- bly at its thirtieth session on the implementation of the present resolution; 12. Invites all Governments, the specialized agen- cies and other organizations within the United Nations system, the United Nations bodies concerned and non- governmental organizations having a special interest in the field of decolonization, as well as the Secretary- General, to take steps, as appropriate, to give wide- spread and continuous publicity through all the media at their disposal to information on the situation in Zim- babwe and the relevant decisions and actions of the United Nations, with particular reference to the appli- cation of sanctions against the illegal regime; 13. Requests the Special Committee to keep the situation in the Territory under review and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its thirtieth session. 2318th plenary meeting 13 December 1974 3298 (XXIX). Question of Southern Rhodesia The General Assembly, Having examined the increasingly critical and de- teriorating situation in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), which the Security Council, in its resolution 277 ( 1970) of 18 March 1970, reaffirmed as constituting a threat to international peace and security, Strongly deploring the increasing collaboration which certain States, particularly South Africa, in violation of Article 25 of the Charter of the United Nations and of the relevant decisions of the United Nations, main- tain with the illegal racist minority regime, thereby seriously impeding the effective application of the sanc- tions and other measures taken so far against the illegal regime, Seriously concerned at the continued importation of chrome and nickel into the United States of America from Southern Rhodesia, in violation of the relevant decisions of the Security Council and in disregard of the related resolutions of the General Assembly, Deeply disturbed at recent reports of widespread vio- lations of United Nations sanctions, including the oper- ation of Southern Rhodesian aircraft for international passenger and cargo traffic and the participation of "Southern Rhodesian" teams in various sporting events, as well as the continued functioning of information and airlines offices of the illegal regime outside South- ern Rhodesia and the resultant influx of foreign tourists into the Territory, Bearing in mind the views expressed by the repre- sentatives of the Zimbabwe African People's Union and the Zimbabwe African National Union, 6, Ibid., Twenty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/9623/ Rev.I), chap. Ill, annex II. Reaffirming its conviction that the sanctions will not put an end to the illegal racist minority regime unless they are comprehensive, mandatory, effectively super- vised, enforced and complied with, particularly by South Africa, I. Calls upon the Government of the United King- dom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, having regard to its continued failure to bring down the illegal regime, to take forthwith all effective and decisive measures to terminate that regime, so as to restore to the people of the Territory their inalienable right to self-determination and independence as set forth in the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Co- lonial Countries and Peoples, contained in General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960; 2. Strongly condemns the policies of the Govern- ments, particularly the Government of South Africa, which, in violation of the relevant resolutions of the United Nations and in open contravention of their specific obligations under Article 25 of the Charter of the United Nations, continue to collaborate with the illegal racist minority regime, and calls upon those Gov- l!mments to cease forthwith all such collaboration; 3. Condemns all violations of the mandatory sanc- tions imposed by the Security Council, as well as the continued failure of certain Member States to enforce those sanctions strictly, as being contrary to the obli- gations assumed by them under Article 25 of the Charter; 4. Condemns the continued importation of chrome and nickel from Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) into the United States of America, and calls upon the Gov- ernment of the United States to repeal speedily any legislation permitting such importation; 5. Calls upon all Governments which so far have not done so: (a) To take stringent enforcement measures to en- sure strict compliance by all individuals, associations and bodies corporate under their jurisdiction with the sanctions imposed by the Security Council and to pro- hibit any form of collaboration by them with the illegal regime; (b) To take effective steps to prevent or discourage the emigration to Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe,) of any individuals or groups of individuals under their jurisdiction; ( c) To discontinue any action which mi~ht confer a semblance of legitimacy on the illegal regime, inter alia, by forbidding the operation and activities of Air Rhodesia, the Rhodesia National Tourist Board and the Rhodesian Information Office, or any other activi- ties which contravene the aims and purposes of the sanctions; (d) To invalidate passports and other documents for travel to the Terri~ory; 6. Reiterates its conviction that the scope of the sanctions against the illegal regime must be widened to include all the measures envisaged under Article 4 I of the Charter and requests the Security Council tn consider taking the necessary measures in that regard as soon as possible; 7. Appeals to those permanent members of the Security Council whose negative votes on various pro· posals relating to the question have continued to ob-- struct the effective and faithful discharge by the Coun- 112 General Assembly-Twenty-ninth Session cil of its responsibilities under the relevant provisions of the Charter to reconsider their negative attitude with a view to the elimination forthwith of the threat to international peace and security · resulting from the explosive situation obtaining in the Territory; 8. Requests the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples to follow the implementation of the pres- ent resolution, and invites the Security Council Com- mittee established in pursuance of resolution 253 ( 1968) concerning th~ question of Southern Rhodesia to continue to co-operate in the related work of the Special Committee. 2318th plenary meeting 13 December 1974 3299 (XXIX). Activities of foreign ~onomic and other interest& which are impeding the im• plementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Coun- tries and Peoples in Southern Rhodesia, Namibia and Territories under Portuguese domination and in all other Territories un- der colonial domination and efforts to elim• inate colonialism, apartheid and racial dis- crimination in southern Africa The General Assembly, Having considered the item entitled "Activities o_f foreign economic and other interests which are imped- ing the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Southern Rhodesia, Namibia and Terri- tories under Portuguese domination and in all other Territories under colonial domination and efforts to eliminate colonialism, apartheid and racial discrimina- tion in southern Africa", Having examined the chapter 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 re- lating to this question, 68 Taking into consideration the parts of the report of the United Nations Council for Namibia relating to this question, 69 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 prQgramme of action for the full imple- mentation of the Declaration, as well as all other resolutions of the United Nations relating to the item, Reaffirming the solemn obligation of the administer- ing Powers under the Charter of the United Nations to promote the political, economic, social and educa· tional advancement of the inhabitants of the Terri- tories under their administration and to protect the human and natural resources of those Territories against abuses, Reaffirming that any economic or other activity which impedes the implementation of the Declaration and obstructs efforts aimed at the elimination of co- 68 /hid., chap. IV. 69 ibid., Supplement No. 24 (A/9624) and Supplement No.14A (A/9624/ Add. I). lonialism, apartheid and racial discrimination in south- ern Africa and other colonial Territories violates the political, economic and social rights and interests of the peoples of the Territories aad is therefore incom- patible with the purposes and principles of the Charter, Condemning the increasingly intensified activities of those foreign economic, financial and other interests which continue to exploit the natural and human re- sources of the colonial Territories and to accumulate and repatriate huge profits to the detriment of the in- terests of the inhabitants, particularly in southern Af- rica, thereby impeding the realization by the peoples of the Territories of their legitimate aspirations for self-determination and independence, Strongly condemning the support which South Africa and the illegal racist minority regime in Southern Rho- desia continue to receive from those foreign economic, financial and other interests which are collaborating with them in their exploitation of the natural and hu- man resources of, and in the further entrenchment of their illegal and racialist domination over, the interna- tional Territory of Namibia and the Non-Self-Govern- ing Territory of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) re- spectively, Noting with satisfaction the increasingly widespread public opinion against the nefarious involvement of foreign economic, financial and other interests which impede the implementation of the Declaration, 1. Rea,ffirms the inalienable right of the peoples of dependent Territories to self-determination and inde- pendence and to the enjoyment of the natural resources of their Territories, as well as their right to dispose of those resources in their best interests; 2. Reiterates that any administering Power which deprives the colonial peoples of the exercise of their legitimate rights over their natural resources or subor- dinates the rights and interests of those peoples to foreign economic and financial interests violates the solemn obligations it has assumed under the Charter of the United Nations, 3. Reaffirms that, by their depletive exploitation of natural resource~, the continued accumulation and re- patriation of huge profits and the use of those profits for the enrichment of foreign settlers and the entrench- ment of colonial domination over the Territories, the activities of foreign economic, financial and other in- terests operating at present in the colonial Territories of southern Africa constitute a major obstacle to po· litical independence and to the enjoyment of the natural resources of those Territories by the indigenous in- habitants; 4. Condemns the policies of the colonial Powers and other States which continue to support or collabo- rate with those foreign economic and other interests engaged in exploiting the natural and human resources of the Territories, thus violating the political, economic and social rights and interests of the indigenous peo- ples and obstructing the full and speedy implementa- tion of the Declaration on the Granting of Indepen- dence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in respect of those Territories; 5. Calls upon the colonial Powers, as well as those Governments which have not yet done so, to take legis- lative, adminis1rative or other measures in respect of their national., and the bodies corporate under their jurisdiction who own and operate enterprises in co-

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