A/RES/74/94
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
26 December 2019
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 56
Economic and other activities which affect the interests of
the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 13 December 2019
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/74/415)]
74/94.
Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the
peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories
The General Assembly,
Having considered the item entitled “Economic and other activities which affect
the interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories”,
Having examined 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 for 2019 relating to the item, 1
Recalling its resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, as well as all its other
relevant resolutions, including, in particular, resolutions 46/181 of 19 December
1991, 55/146 of 8 December 2000 and 65/119 of 10 December 2010,
Reaffirming the solemn obligation of the administering Powers under the
Charter of the United Nations to promote the political, economic, social and
educational advancement of the inhabitants of the Territories under their
administration and to protect the human and natural resources of those Territories
against abuses,
Reaffirming also that any economic or other activity, including the use of the
Non-Self-Governing Territories for military activity, that has a negative impact on the
interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories and on the exercise of
their right to self-determination in conformity with the Charter, General Assembly
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/74/23),
chap. VI.
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