Report of the Committee on South West Africa

UN General Assembly, Report of the Committee on South West Africa, A/RES/941, UN General Assembly, 3 December 1955, https://www.refworld.org/legal/resolution/unga/1955/en/7271 [accessed 17 March 2025]
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X. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE FOURTH COMMITTEE
941. Report of the Committee on South West Africa

The General Assembly, Having established by resolution 749 A (VIII) of 28 November 1953, until such time as an agreement is reached between the United Nations and the Union of South Africa, a Committee on South West Africa, Having requested that Committee to examine, within the scope of the Questionnaire adopted by the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations in 1926, such information and documentation as may be available in respect of the Territory of South West Africa and to transmit to the General Assembly a report concerning conditions in the Territory taking into account, as far as possible, the scope of the reports of the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations, Having considered, in accordance with the special rules adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 844 (IX) of 11 October 1954, the second report and observations[1] of the Committee on South West Africa regarding conditions in the Territory,

1. Expresses its appreciation of the work of the Committee on South West Africa;

2. Takes note of the observations of the Committee concerning conditions in the Territory;

3. Approves the report[2]2of the Committee on South West Africa;

4. Draws the attention of the Government of the Union of South Africa to the Committee's report and observations;

5. Urges the Government of the Union of South Africa to give serious consideration to the observations and recommendations of the Committee and to study the possibility of adopting measures to implement them in order to ensure the fulfilment of its obligations and responsibilities under the Mandate;

6. Invites the Government of the Union of South Africa to co-operate with the Committee and, in particular, to submit to the Committee reports and such petitions as may be received on its administration of the Territory of South West Africa, and to assist the Committee in the examination of such reports and petitions, or of such information and documentation as may be available to that Committee;

7. Requests the Committee on South West Africa, in the preparation of its next report, to take into account the discussions in the Fourth Committee at the tenth session of the General Assembly;

8. Further requests the Committee on South West Africa, in the preparation of its next and all future reports, to include its recommendations on each aspect of conditions in the Territory for such particular action as it considers the Government of the Union of South Africa should take to ensure the fulfilment of its obligations and responsibilities under the Mandate.

550th plenary meeting,
3 December 1955.
[1] Ibid., Tenth Session, Supplement No. 12 (A/2913), annex II. [2] Ibid., Supplement No. 12 (A/2913) and ibid., Tenth Session, Annexes, agenda item 30, documents A/2913/Add.1 and A/2913/Add.2.
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