Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories
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Date:
12 December 1959
XIV. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE FOURTH COMMITTEE
1471. Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories
1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on offers of study and training facilities under General Assembly resolution 845 (IX);[1]
2. Reaffirms its resolution 1331 (XIII) of 12 December 1958, and invites the Administering Members to take all necessary measures consistent with the interests and needs of the Non-Self-Governing Territories and their peoples to ensure that scholarships and training facilities offered by Member States may be utilized by the inhabitants of those Territories, and to render every assistance to those persons who have applied for, or have been granted, scholarships or fellowships, particularly with regard to facilitating their travel formalities;
3. Requests all Administering Members which have not done so to give the fullest publicity in the Non-Self-Governing Territories under their administration to all offers of study and training facilities made by Member States;
4. Requests the Member States offering scholarships to take into account the necessity of furnishing complete information about the scholarships offered, and, whenever possible, the need to provide travel funds to prospective students;
5. Requests the Secretary-General to give such assistance as is possible, and as may be sought by the Member States concerned and by the applicants;
6. Requests the Secretary-General to prepare for the fifteenth session of the General Assembly a report concerning the actual use of scholarships and training facilities offered by Member States to students from the Non-Self-Governing Territories.
855th plenary meeting,12 December 1959.
[1] Ibid., documents A/4196 and Add.1.
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