A/RES/55/139
1.
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;1
2.
Recommends that all States intensify their efforts in the specialized
agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system to ensure the full and
effective implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to
Colonial Countries and Peoples, contained in General Assembly resolution
1514 (XV), and other relevant resolutions of the United Nations;
3.
Reaffirms that the specialized agencies and other organizations and
institutions of the United Nations system should continue to be guided by the
relevant resolutions of the United Nations in their efforts to contribute to the
implementation of the Declaration and all other relevant General Assembly
resolutions;
4.
Reaffirms also that the recognition by the General Assembly, the Security
Council and other United Nations organs of the legitimacy of the aspirations of the
peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories to exercise their right to selfdetermination entails, as a corollary, the extension of all appropriate assistance to
those peoples;
5.
Expresses its appreciation to those specialized agencies and other
organizations of the United Nations system that have continued to cooperate with
the United Nations and the regional and subregional organizations in the
implementation of General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) and other relevant
resolutions of the United Nations, and requests all the specialized agencies and other
organizations of the United Nations system to implement the relevant provisions of
those resolutions;
6.
Requests the specialized agencies and other organizations of the United
Nations system and international and regional organizations to examine and review
conditions in each Territory so as to take appropriate measures to accelerate progress
in the economic and social sectors of the Territories;
7.
Urges those specialized agencies and organizations of the United Nations
system that have not yet provided assistance to Non-Self-Governing Territories to do
so as soon as possible;
8.
Requests the specialized agencies and other organizations and institutions
of the United Nations system and regional organizations to strengthen existing
measures of support and formulate appropriate programmes of assistance to the
remaining Non-Self-Governing Territories, within the framework of their respective
mandates, in order to accelerate progress in the economic and social sectors of those
Territories;
9.
Requests the specialized agencies and other organizations of the United
Nations system concerned to provide information on:
(a)
Environmental problems facing the Non-Self-Governing Territories;
(b) The impact of natural disasters, such as hurricanes and volcanic
eruptions, and other environmental problems, such as beach and coastal erosion and
droughts, on those Territories;
(c) Ways and means to assist the Territories to fight drug trafficking,
money-laundering and other illegal and criminal activities;
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