A/RES/73/103
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 December 2018
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 59
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 7 December 2018
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/73/473)]
73/103.
Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted
under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 1970 (XVIII) of 16 December 1963, in which it
requested the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation
of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
to study the information transmitted to the Secretary-General in accordance with
Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations and to take such information fully
into account in examining the situation with regard to the implementation of the
Declaration, contained in General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960,
Recalling also its resolution 72/91 of 7 December 2017, in which it requested
the Special Committee to continue to discharge the functions entrusted to it under
resolution 1970 (XVIII),
Stressing the importance of the timely transmission by the administering Powers
of adequate information under Article 73 e of the Charter, in particular in relation to
the preparation by the Secretariat of the working paper s on the Territories concerned,
Mindful of the non-fulfilment of the obligation to transmit information on some
Non-Self-Governing Territories in accordance with Article 73 e of the Charter,
Recalling its resolution 65/119 of 10 December 2010, on the Third International
Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, which will end in two and a half years,
and stressing in that regard the need to make real progress towards its full
implementation,
Having examined the report of the Secretary-General, 1
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