Transmission of information under Article 73e of the Charter

III. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE FOURTH COMMITTEE
218. Transmission of information under Article 73e of the Charter

The General Assembly, Considering that, in the light of experience, resolution 66 (I) adopted. by the General Assembly on 14 December 1946[1] and resolutions 142 (II) and 143 (II) adopted by the General Assembly on 3 November 1947[2] require adaptation and amplification,

1. Invites the Members transmitting information under Article 73 e of the Charter to send to the Secretary-General the most recent information which is at their disposal, as early as possible and at the latest within a maximum period of six months following the expiration of the administrative year in the Non-Self-Governing Territories concerned;

2. Recommends that the Members, in transmitting information on the basis of the Standard Form, should notify such changes in statistics and such other appreciable changes, including the progress achieved in accordance with development programmes, as have occurred in the previous year and as affect the matters covered by Article 73 e of the Charter, bearing in mind that information already furnished on a previous occasion need not be repeated but that reference may be made to the appropriate sources;

3. Invites the Secretary-General to extend the use of supplemental information in future years and considers that, in order to provide a means of assessing the information transmitted under Article 73 e, the Secretary-General should be authorized to include in his summaries and analyses all revelant and comparable official statistical information, within the categories referred to in Article 73 e of the Charter, which has been communicated to the United Nations or to the specialized agencies;

4. Invites the Secretary-General to prepare for the General Assembly, and for any special committee which the General Assembly may appoint:,

(a) Full summaries and analyses of the information transmitted during 1949 and thereafter at three-year intervals, showing the progress made over the three-year period in respect of economic, social and educational conditions;

(b) In the intervening years annual supplements, showing such changes in statistics and such other appreciable changes, including information on the progress achieved in accordance with developments programme, as have occurred in the previous year, together with relevant statistics for the previous two years, as well as analyses of different aspects of economic, social and educational conditions to which attention may have been drawn in previous years;

(c) Annual summaries of any material which the Members may have voluntarily transmitted under the optional category of the Standard Form;

5. Invites the Secretary-General to distribute the documents referred to above as far as practicable in accordance with the attached schedule;

6. Decides that the Standard Form for the guidance of Members in the preparation of information should be retained for the coming year, but that the Secretary-General,

(a) In communicating this Form to the Members concerned, should inform them of the comments made in the Special Committee in connexion with the contents of the Form and the information received;

(b) Should endeavour as far as practicable to take account of these comments in the preparation of his summaries and analyses; and

(c) Should invite the Members concerned which have not hitherto provided the general information forming the optional category of the Standard Form nevertheless to supply such information in relation to the geography, history, people of, and human rights in the Territories concerned.

Schedule

Information received before 1 June: summaries to be communicated by the Secretary-General before 15 July. Information received in the month of June summaries to be communicated before 31 July. Analyses to be communicated by 31 July if practicable, and in any even not later than 15 August. Hundred and fifty-fifth plenary meeting,
3 November 1948.

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[1] See Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly during the second part of its first session, page 124. [2] See Official Records of the second session of the General Assembly, Resolutions, pages 48 and 55.