Study of legal action to ensure the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by the Mandatory Power under the Mandate for South West Africa

UN General Assembly, Study of legal action to ensure the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by the Mandatory Power under the Mandate for South West Africa, A/RES/1060, UN General Assembly, 26 February 1957, https://www.refworld.org/legal/resolution/unga/1957/en/10285 [accessed 13 September 2024]
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XI. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE FOURTH COMMITTEE
1060. Study of legal action to ensure the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by the Mandatory Power under the Mandate for South West Africa

The General Assembly, Having regard to the provisions of the Mandate for South West Africa, the Covenant of the League of Nations, the Charter of the United Nations and the resolutions of the General Assembly in regard to South West Africa, Noting that its resolutions endorsing and accepting the advisory opinion[1] of 11 July 1950 of the International Court of Justice and urging the Union of South Africa to place the Territory of South West Africa under trusteeship have been of no avail,

1. Requests the Committee on South West Africa to study the following question:

"What legal action is open to the organs of the United Nations, or to the Members of the United Nations, or to the former Members of the League of Nations, acting either individually or jointly, to ensure that the Union of South Africa fulfils the obligations assumed by it under the Mandate, pending the placing of the Territory of South West Africa under the International Trusteeship System?";

2. Further requests the Committee on South West Africa to submit to the General Assembly at its twelfth session a special report containing conclusions and recommendations on the question.

661st plenary meeting,
26 February 1957.
[1] International status of South-West Africa, Advisory Opinion: I. C. J. Reports 1950, p. 128.
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