Question of Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Montserrat and Turks and Caicos Islands.
- Author: UN General Assembly (31st sess. : 1976)
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Date:
1 December 1976
31. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE FOURTH COMMITTEE*
52. Question of Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Montserrat and Turks and Caicos Islands
1. Approves the 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 relating to Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Montserrat and Turks and Caicos Islands ;[4]
2. Reaffirms the inalienable right of the peoples of those Territories to self-determination and independence in accordance with the Declaration;
3. Reaffirms its conviction that questions of territorial size, geographical isolation and limited resources should in no way delay the implementation of the Declaration with respect to the Territories concerned;
4. Calls upon the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as the administering Power, in consultation with the freely elected representatives of the peoples, to continue to take all the necessary steps to ensure the full and speedy attainment of the goals set forth in the Declaration with respect to the Territories;
5. Calls upon the administering Power to expand its programme of budgetary and development aid and to take all possible steps, in consultation with the local authorities as appropriate, to diversify and strengthen further the economies of the Territories listed above and to work out concrete programmes of assistance and economic development for those Territories;
6. Urges the administering Power, with the cooperation of the Governments of the Territories concerned, to safeguard the inalienable right of the peoples of those Territories to the enjoyment of their natural resources by taking effective measures which guarantee rights of the peoples to own and dispose of those natural resources and to establish and maintain control of their future development;
7. Welcomes the positive attitude of the administering respect to the receiving of United g missions in the Territories under its administration and requests the Chairman of the Special Committee to continue his consultations with a view to the dispatch of such missions, as appropriate;
8. Requests the administering Power to continue to enlist the assistance of the specialized agencies and other organizations within the United Nations system accelerating progress in all sectors of the national of those Territories;
9. Requests the Special Committee to continue to seek the best ways and means for the implementation of the Declaration with respect to Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Montserrat and Turks and Caicos Islands, inclution the possible dispatch of visiting missions in consultation with the administering Power, and to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-second session on the implementation of the present resolution.
85th plenary meeting1 December 1976
[1] Ibid., chaps. III, XXVII and XXIX. [2] Ibid., Thirty-first Session, Fourth Committee, 11th meeting, paras. 1-11; and ibid., Fourth Committee, Sessional Fascicle, corrigendum. [3] Ibid., Thirtieth Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/10023/Rev.1), chap. XXVIII, annex. [4] Ibid., Thirty-first Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/31/Rev.1), chaps. XXVII and XXIX.
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