Question of the renewal of the Committee on Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories

XIII. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE FOURTH COMMITTEE
1332. Question of the renewal of the Committee on Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories

The General Assembly, Having considered the work of the Committee on Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories, Recognizing the continued value of the work of the Committee in the interests of the advancement of the peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories and the attainment of the objectives set forth in Chapter XI of the Charter of the United Nations,

1. Decides to continue the Committee on Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories on the same basis for a further period of three years;

2. Decides that, as provided in General Assembly resolutions 332 (IV) of 2 December 1949, 646 (VII) of 10 December 1952 and 933 (X) of 8 November 1955, the Committee should be composed of those Members of the United Nations transmitting information in accordance with Article 73 e of the Charter and of an equal number of non-Administering Members elected by the Fourth Committee on behalf of the General Assembly on as wide a geographical basis as possible;

3. Invites the members of the Committee to continue to attach to their delegations persons specially qualified in the functional fields within the Committee's purview;

4. Invites the Administering Members to attach to their delegations indigenous persons specially qualified to speak on economic, social and educational policies in the Non-Self-Governing Territories;

5. Instructs the Committee to examine, in the spirit of Article 1, paragraphs 3 and 4, and of Article 55 of the Charter, the summaries and analyses of information transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter on economic, social and educational conditions in the Non-Self-Governing Territories, including any papers prepared by the specialized agencies and any reports or information on measures taken in pursuance of the resolutions adopted by the General Assembly concerning economic, social and educational conditions in the Non-Self-Governing Territories;

6. Instructs the Committee to submit to the General Assembly at its regular sessions reports containing such procedural recommendations as it may deem fit and such substantive recommendations as it may deem desirable relating to functional fields generally but not with respect to individual Territories;

7. Considers that the Committee should, without prejudice to the annual consideration of all the functional fields enumerated in Article 73 e of the Charter, give special attention to educational, economic and social conditions in turn and should consider the information transmitted in respect of these questions in the light of the reports approved by the General Assembly on such conditions in Non-Self-Governing Territories;

8. Decides that, at its sixteenth session, the General Assembly will reconsider the question of continuing the Committee on Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories, together with the questions of the composition and terms of reference of this or any such future committee.

789th plenary meeting,
12 December 1958. At its 839th meeting, the Fourth Committee, acting in the name of the General Assembly, in accordance with the terms of the above resolution, was called upon to fill the four vacancies in the membership of the Committee on Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories created by the expiration of the terms of office of CHINA, INDIA, IRAQ and VENEZUELA. The following States were elected for a three-year period: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, GHANA, INDIA and IRAQ.