Question of Niue

XXVIII. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE FOURTH COMMITTEE
3155. Question of Niue

The General Assembly, Having considered the question of Niue, Having examined the relevant chapters of the report of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples [1] Having heard the statement of the Leader of Government of Niue[2] Recalling its resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960 containing the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, Recalling its resolutions 2868 (XXVI) of 20 December 1971 and 2986 (XXVII) of 14 December 1972, Recalling the report of the United Nations Visiting Mission to Niue, 1972,[3] Noting with satisfaction the outcome of the constitutional talks between the administering Power and a Niuean Government delegation which was embodied in a joint communiqué issued at Wellington on 2 March 1973[4] Noting further that a time-table has been established for the completion in 1974 of the final steps which will enable Niue to achieve self-government, Mindful of the responsibility of the United Nations to render all help to the people of Niue in their efforts freely to decide their own future,

1. Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of Niue to self-determination in conformity with General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV);

2. Approves the chapter of the report of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples relating to Niue[5] and endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Special Committee on the question;

3. Notes with approval that, during the period since the United Nations Mission visited Niue in June 1972, the Government and people of Niue resolved to achieve self-government in 1974 and that agreement has been reached with the Government of New Zealand, as the administering Power, on a specific time-table for the free exercise by the people of Niue of their right to self-determination;

4. Welcomes the invitation extended by the administering Power to the Secretary-General for the United Nations to observe the act of self-determination in Niue in 1974;

5. Requests the Special Committee, in consultation with the administering Power and the Government of Niue, to appoint a special mission to Niue in 1974 which will observe the proceedings relating to the act of self-determination by the people of Niue and to report to the General Assembly at its twenty-ninth session;

6. Requests the administering Power and the Government of Niue, as well as the Secretary-General, to provide all the necessary assistance and facilities to the special mission in the discharge of its task;

7. Requests the Special Committee to report on this question to the General Assembly at its twenty-ninth session.

2202nd plenary meeting,
14 December 1973

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[1] Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-eighth Session Supplement No. 23 (A/9023/Rev.1), chaps. III and XVI. [2] Ibid., Twenty-eighth Session, Fourth Committee, 2067th meeting. [3]3 Ibid., Twenty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/ 8723/Rev.1), chap. XVI, annex I. [4] Ibid., Twenty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/9023/ Rev.1), chap. XVI, annex, para. 19. [5] Ibid., chap. XVI.