A/RES/38/49 GA

230 General Assembly --Thirty-eighth Session ------------------------ social conditions and to pay particular attention to over- coming problems of unemployment, public housing, health care, education and crime and, in that connection, notes with satisfaction the efforts to revitalize health care programmes and to discouragc juvenile delinquency, the measures to improve crime prevention and the action taken to expand and upgrade school facilities: 13. Considers that the possibility of sending a further visiting mission to the United States Virgin Islands at an appropriate time should be kept under review; 14. Requests the Special Committee to continue thc examination of this question at its next session, including the possible dispatch of a further visiting mission to thc United States Virgin Islands at an appropriate time and in consultation with the administering Power, and to report thereon to the General Asscmbly at its thirty-ninth scs- sion. 86th plenary meeting 7 Decemher 1983 38/49. Information from Non-Self-Governing Terri- tories transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations The General Assemhly, Having examined the chapter ofthe report ofthe Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the lmplemen- tation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples relating to the informa- tion from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article 73 e ofthe Charter ofthe United Nations 21 and the action taken by the Committee in respect of that information, Having a/so examined the report of the Secretary- General on the question, 26 Recalling its resolution 1970 (XVIII) of 16 December 1963, in which it requested the Special Committee to study the information transmitted to the Secretary- General in accordance with Article 7 3 e of the Charter and to take such information fully into account in examining the situation with regard to the implementation of the Declaration, Recalling a/so its resolution 3 7 /29 of 23 Novembcr 1982, in which it requested the Special Committee to con- tinue to discharge the functions entrusted to it under reso- lution 1970 (XVIII), Noting the decision of the Government of the United Kingdom ofGreat Britain and Northern Ireland to resume transmission of information with respect to Anguilla, under Article 73 e of the Charter, 27 l. Approves the chapter of the report of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the lmplemen- tation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples relating to the informa- tion from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations; 2. Reaffirms that, in the absence of a decision by the General Assembly itself that a Non-Self-Governing Terri- tory has attained a full measure of self-government under the terms of Chapter XI of the Charter, the administering Power concerned should continue to transmit information under Article 73 e ofthe Charter with respect to that Terri- tory; 25 /bid., chap. VII. 26 N38!477. 27 See Officia/ Record., of the <ieneral Assemhh·, Th,rtv-ei¡;hth Se.rnon, su¡¡iement No. 23 (A/38/23). chap. Vil, para. 8 !bid., chap. V. 3. Requcsts thc administering Powers concerned to transmit, or continue to transmit, to the Secretary-General the information prcscribed in Article 73 e of the Charter, as well as the fullcst possiblc information on political and constitutional developments in the Territories concerned, within a maximum period of six months following the expiration of the administrative year in those Territories; 4. Rcquests the Special Committee to continue to dis- charge the functions entrustcd to it under General Assem- bly resolution 1970 (XVIII), in accordance with estab- lished procedurcs. and to report thcreon to the Assembly at 1ts thirty-ninth session. 86th plenary meeting 7 Decemher /983 38/50. Activities of foreign economic and other inter- ests which are impeding the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Inde- pendence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Namibia and in ali other Territories under colonial domination and efforts to eliminate colonialism, apartheid and racial discrimina- tion in southern Africa rhc e ,'en eral Asscmh/_1·. Having considcrcd the item entitled "Activities of for- cign economic and other interests which are impeding the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Namibia and in ali other Territories under colonial domi- nation and efforts to eliminate colonialism, apartheid and racial discrimination in southern Africa", Having examined the chapter ofthe report ofthe Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implemen- tation of the Declaration on the Granting oflndependence to Colonial Countries and Peoples relating to this ques- tion, 28 Taking into consideration the relevant chapter of the rcport of the United Nations Council for Namibia, 29 Having considcred the report ofthe United Nations Cen- tre on Transnational Corporations, 30 relating to the prep- aration of a register indicating the profits that transna- tional corporations derive from their activities in colonial Territories, submitted in pursuance of General Assembly resolution 37 /31 of 23 November 1982, Recalling its rcsolutions 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, containing the Declaration on the Granting of Inde- pendence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, 2621 (XXV) of I 2 October 19 70, containing the programme of action for the full implementation ofthe Declaration, and 35/118 of 11 December 1980, the annex to which contains the Plan of Action for the Full Implementation ofthe Declara- tion, as well as ali other resolutions of the United Nations relating to the itcm, Rea_tfirming the solemn obligation of the administering Powers under thc Charter of the United Nations to pro- mote the political, economic, social and educational advancement of the inhabitants of the Territories under their administration and to protect the human and natural resources of thosc Territories against abuses, Taking into account the relevant provisions ofthe Paris Declaration on Namibia and the Programme of Action on Namibia, 31 adopted at the International Conference in 29 /bid., Supp/emcnr V,1 :'4 (A/38124), part lwo, chap. IV. lO A/381444. annex. \1 Repon of the lntcrnational Conferen,·e ,n Support of the Strugg/e o( th,• Vamihian l'cop/efi,r lndepcndcnce, Pari.1·. :,5.:,9 .·1pnl /983 (Al('ONF.1201 11). paras. 165-195 and 220-242.

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