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182 General Assembly-Thirty-third Session. Having heard the statements made on the subject of East Timar, including the statement by the repre- sentative of the Frente Revolucionaria de Timar Leste Independente, 52 Deeply concerned at the continuing critical situation in the Territory, resulting from the persistent refusal on the part of the Government of Indonesia to comply with the provisions of the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Security Council, Bearing in mind the part of the Declaration of the Conference of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Non- Aligned Countries, held at Belgrade from 25 to 30 July 1978, relating to East Timor,53 Mindful that all States should, in conformity with Article 2, paragraph 4, of the Charter, refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or national independence of any State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations, 1. Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of East Timor to self-determination and independence, and the legitimacy of their struggle to achieve that right; 2. Reaffirms its resolutions 3485 (XXX), 31/53 and 32/34 and Security Council resolutions 384 (1975) and 389 (1976); 3. Requests the Special Committee on the Situa- tion with regard to the Implementation of the Decla- ration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples to keep the situation in the Territory under active consideration, to follow the implementation of the present resolution, to dispatch to the Territory as soon as possible a visiting mission with a view to the full and speedy implementation of the Declaration and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its thirty-fourth session; 4. Draws the attention of the Security Council, in conformity with Article 11, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, to the critical situation in the Territory of East Timar and recommends that it take all effective steps for the implementation of its reso- lutions 384 (1975) and 389 (1976) with a view to securing the full exercise by the people of East Timar of their right to self-determination and independence; 5. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-fourth session the item entitled "Question of East Timor". 81 st plenary meeting 13 December 197 8 33/40. Activities of foreign economic and other interests which are impeding the imple- mentation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Southern Rho- desia and Namibia and in all other Ter- ritories under colonial domination and efforts to eliminate colonialism, apartheid and racial discrimination in southern Africa The General Assembly, Having considered the item entitled "Activities of foreign economic and other interests which are imped- 52 fbid., Thirty-third Session, Fourth Committee, 21st meet- ing, paras. 10-27. 53 A/33/206, annex I, para. 133. ing the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Southern Rhodesia and Namibia and in all other Territories under colonial domination and efforts to eliminate colonialism, apartheid and racial discrimi- nation 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 relating to this question,54 Taking into consideration the parts of the report of the United Nations Council for Namibia relating to the question, 55 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 im- plementation of the Declaration, as well as all other resolutions of the United Nations relating to the item, Taking into account the Maputo Declaration in Sup- port of the Peoples of Zimbabwe and Namibia and the Programme of Action for the Liberation of Zimbabwe and Namibia,"6 adopted by the International Confer- ence in Support of the Peoples of Zimbabwe and Na- mibia, held at Maputo from 16 to 21 May 1977, as well as the Lagos Declaration for Action against Apartheid, 57 adopted by the World Conference for Action against Apartheid, Recalling the Declaration on Namibia and the Pro- gramme of Action in Support of Self-Determination and National Independence for Namibia, contained in resolution S/9-2 of 3 May 1978, adopted by the Gen- eral Assembly at its ninth special session, Bearing in mind the relevant resolutions adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity at its fifteenth or- dinary session, held at Khartoum from 18 to 22 July 1978,58 Bearing in mind also the Declaration of the Con- ference of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Non- Aligned Countries, held at Belgrade from 25 to 30 July 1978,59 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 Territories 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 on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries 54 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-third Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/33/23/Rev.1), vol. I, chap. IV. 55 fbid., Supplement No. 24 (A/33/24), vol. I. 56 A/32/109/Rev.1-S/12344/Rev.l, annex V. For the printed text, see Official Records of the Security Council, Thirty-second Year, Supplement for July, August and Sep- tember 1977. 57 Report of the World Conference for Action against Apart- heid, Lagos, 22-26 August 1977 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.77.XIV.2 and corrigendum), sect. X. 58 A/33/235 and Corr.I, annex II, resolutions AHG/Res.86 (XV) and AHG/Res.89 (XV). 59 See A/33/206, annex I. VII. Resolutions adopted on the reports of the Fourth Committee 183 and Peoples and obstructs efforts aimed at the elimina- tion of colonialism, apartheid and racial discrimination in southern Africa and other colonial Territories vio- lates the political, economic and social rights and in- terests of the peoples of the Territories and is therefore incompatible with the purposes and principles of the Charter, Reaffirming that the natural resources of all Ter- ritories under colonial and racist domination are the heritage of the peoples of those Territories and that the exploitation and depletion of those resources by foreign economic interests, in particular of southern Africa, in association with the illegal racist minority regimes constitutes a direct violation of the rights of the peoples and of the principles stated in the Charter and all relevant resolutions of the United Nations, Noting with profound concern that the colonial Powers and certain States, through their activities in the colonial Territories, have continued to disregard United Nations decisions relating to the item and that they have failed to implement in particular the relevant provisions of General Assembly resolutions 2621 (XXV) of 12 October 1970 and 32/35 of 28 No- vember 1977, by which the Assembly called upon the colonial Powers and those Governments which had not yet done so to take legislative, administrative or other measures in order to put an end to enterprises in colonial Territories, particularly in Africa, which are owned by their nationals or bodies corporate under their jurisdiction, whenever such enterprises are detri- mental to the interests of the inhabitants of those Territories, and to prevent new investments which run counter to such interests, Condemning the intensified activities of those foreign economic, financial and other interests which continue to exploit the natural and human resources of the co- lonial Territories and to accumulate and repatriate huge profits to the detriment of the interests of the inhabitants, particularly in southern Africa, thereby impeding the realization by the peoples of the Ter- ritories of their legitimate aspirations for self-determi- nation and independence, Strongly condemning the support which the racist minority regime of South Africa and the illegal racist minority regime in Southern Rhodesia continue to re- ceive from those foreign economic, financial and other interests which are collaborating with them in their exploitation of the natural and human resources of, and in the further entrenchment of their illegal and racialist domination over, the international Territory of Namibia and the Non-Self-Governing Territory of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), respectively, Strongly condemning the investment of foreign capi- tal in the illegal production of uranium and the collab- oration by certain Western countries and other States with the racist minority regime of South Africa in the nuclear field which, by providing that regime with nuclear equipment and technology, enables the latter to develop nuclear and military capabilities, thereby promoting South Africa's continued illegal occupation of Namibia and enabling it to become a nuclear Power, Deeply concerned at the fact that foreign economic, financial and other interests continue to deprive the in- digenous populations of other colonial Territories, in- cluding those in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean regions, of their rights over the wealth of their coun- tries, and at the continued loss of ownership of land by the inhabitants of those Territories as a result of the failure of the administering Powers to take effective steps to safeguard such ownership, Conscious of the continuing need to mobilize world public opinion against the involvement of foreign eco- nomic, financial and other interests in the exploitation of natural and human resources, which impedes the independence of colonial Territories and the elimina- tion of racism, particularly in Africa, l. Reaffirms the inalienable right of the peoples of dependent Territories to self-determination and in- dependence and to the enjoyment of the natural re- sources of their Territories, as well as their right to dispose of those resources in their best interests; 2. Reaffirms the relevant provisions of the Maputo Declaration in Support of the Peoples of Zimbabwe and Namibia and the Programme of Action for the Liberation of Zimbabwe and Namibia, adopted by the International Conference in Support of the Peoples of Zimbabwe and Namibia, as well as the Lagos Decla- ration for Action against Apartheid, adopted by the World Conference for Action against Apartheid; 3. Reiterates that any administering or occupying Power which deprives the colonial peoples of the ex- ercise of their legitimate rights over their natural re- sources or subordinates the rights and interests of those peoples to foreign economic and financial in- terests violates the solemn obligations it has assumed under the Charter of the United Nations; 4. Reaffirms that, by their depletive exploitation of natural resources, the continued accumulation and repatriation 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 na- tural resources of those Territories by the indigenous inhabitants; 5. Condemns the activities of foreign economic and other interests in the colonial Territories that impede the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and the efforts to eliminate colonialism, apart- heid and racial discrimination; 6. Strongly condemns the collusion of all States which collaborate politically, diplomatically, economi- cally and militarily with South Africa in flagrant vio- lation of the relevant United Nations resolutions, par- ticularly that of Belgium, France, Germany, Federal Republic of, Israel, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America; 7. Strongly condemns the collusion of France, Germany, Federal Republic of, Israel and the United States with South Africa in the nuclear field, and calls upon all other Governments to continue to refrain from supplying the racist minority regime of South Africa, directly or indirectly, with installations that might enable it to produce uranium, plutonium and other nuclear materials, reactors or military equipment; 8. Calls once again upon all Governments which have not yet done so to take legislative, administrative 184 General As11emhly-Thirty-third Session or other measures in respect of their nationals and the bodies corporate under their jurisdiction who own and operate enterprises in colonial Territories, particularly in Africa, which are detrimental to the interests of the inhabitants of those Territories, in order to put an end to such enterprises and to prevent new invest- ments that run counter to the interests of the in- habitants of those Territories; 9. Requests all States to refrain from making any investments in, or extending loans to, the minority racist regimes in southern Africa and to refrain from any agreements or measures to promote trade or other economic relations with them; 10. Expresses its conviction that the scope of the sanctions adopted against the illegal regime in Southern Rhodesia should be expanded to cover all the meas- ures contemplated in Article 41 of the Charter and calls upon the Security Council to consider adopting appropriate measures to this end; 11. Condemns all violations of the mandatory sanctions imposed by the Security Council against the illegal racist minority regime in Southern Rhodesia, as well as the continued failure of certain Member States to enforce those sanctions, as being contrary to the obligations assumed by them under Article 25 of the Charter; 12. Strongly condemns the supply of petroleum and petroleum products to Southern Rhodesia by United Kingdom oil companies which, by that delib- erate act, are circumventing United Nations sanctions and strengthening the illegal regime of Ian Smith; 13. Deplores the complicity of successive Govern- ments of the United Kingdom in the violation of United Nations sanctions by United Kingdom oil companies, as exposed in the Bingham report60 on the supply of petroleum and petroleum products to the illegal regime of Ian Smith; 14. Condemns those oil-producing or oil-exporting countries which supply crude oil and petroleum prod- ucts to the racist regime of South Africa and demands that they cease forthwith all exports of crude oil and petroleum products to the racist regimes in southern Africa and take the necessary measures against oil companies which, in violation of United Nations reso- lutions on sanctions, continue to deliver oil to those regimes; 15. Requests all States to take effective measures to end the supply of funds and other forms of assist- ance, including military supplies and equipment, to the regimes which use such assistance to repress the peoples of the colonial Territories and their national liberation movements; 16. Reiterates that the exploitation and plundering of the natural resources of Namibia by South African and other foreign economic interests, in violation of the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Security Council and of Decree No. 1 for the Protection of the Natural Resources of Namibia, en- acted by the United Nations Council for Namibia on 27 September 197461 is illegal and contributes to the maintenance of the illegal occupation regime; 60 T. H. Bingham and S. M. Gray, Report on the Supply of Petroleum and Petroleum Products to Rhodesia (London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office for the Foreign and Common- wealth Office, 1978). 61 Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 24A (A/9624/ Add.1 ), para. 84. The Decree has been issued in final form in Namibia Gazette No. 1. 17. Strongly condemns South Africa for its con- tinued exploitation and plundering of the natural re- sources of Namibia in complete disregard of the legiti- mate interests of the Namibian people; 18. Calls once again upon all States to discontinue all economic, financial or trade relations with South Africa concerning Namibia and to refrain from enter- ing into economic, financial or other relations with South Africa, acting on behalf of or concerning Na- mibia, which may lend support to its continued illegal occupation of that Territory; 19. Strongly condemns the racist minority regime of South Africa which, in violation of the relevant resolutions of the United Nations and in open contra- vention of its specific obligations under Article 25 of the Charter, continues to collaborate with the illegal racist minority regime in Southern Rhodesia, and calls upon the Security Council to implement the decisions contained in the present resolution by imposing eco- nomic sanctions against South Africa, including an oil embargo and the withdrawal of investments from that country; 20. Invites all Governments and organizations within the United Nations system, having regard to the relevant provisions of the Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order, contained in General Assembly resolution 3201 (S-VI) of 1 May 197 4, and of the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States, contained in Assembly resolution 3281 (XXIX) of 12 December 1974, to ensure in particular that the permanent sovereignty of the colonial Territories over their natural resources is fully respected and safeguarded; 21. Calls upon the administering Powers to abolish every discriminatory and unjust wage system which prevails in the Territories under their administration and to apply in each Territory a uniform system of wages to all the inhabitants without any discrimination; 22. Requests the Secretary-General to undertake, through the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat, a sustained and broad campaign with a view to informing world public opinion of the facts con- cerning the pillaging of natural resources in colonial Territories and the exploitation of their indigenous populations by foreign monopolies and the support they render to the colonialist and racist regimes; 23. Requests the Special Committee on the Situa- tion with regard to the Implementation of the Decla- ration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples to continue to examine this question and to report thereon to the General Assem- bly at its thirty-fourth session. 82nd plenary meeting 13 December 1978 33/41. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations The General Assembly, Having considered the item entitled "Implementa- tion of the Declaration on the Granting of Indepen- dence to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the spe-

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