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6. Calls upon all States, in particular the administering Powers, as well as the specialized agencies and
other organizations of the United Nations system, to give effect within their respective spheres of competence
to the recommendations of the Special Committee for the implementation of the Declaration and other
relevant resolutions of the United Nations;
7. Calls upon the administering Powers to ensure that foreign economic activities in the Non-SelfGoverning Territories under their administration are directed to assist the peoples of those Territories in the
exercise of their right to self-determination;
8. Takes note of the decision of some of the administering Powers to close or reduce some of the
military bases in the Non-Self-Governing Territories;
9. Calls upon the administering Powers to eliminate the remaining military bases in the Non-SelfGoverning Territories in compliance with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, and urges them
not to involve those Territories in any offensive acts or interference against other States;
10. Urges all States, directly and through their action in the specialized agencies and other organizations
of the United Nations system, to provide moral and material assistance to the peoples of colonial Territories,
and requests that the administering Powers, in consultation with the Governments of the Territories under
their administration, take steps to enlist and make effective use of all possible assistance, on both a bilateral
and a multilateral basis, in the strengthening of the economies of those Territories;
11. Requests the Special Committee to continue to seek suitable means for the immediate and full
implementation of the Declaration and to carry out those actions approved by the General Assembly regarding
the International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism in all Territories that have not yet exercised their
right to self-determination, including independence, and in particular:
(a) To formulate specific proposals for the elimination of the remaining manifestations of colonialism
and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session;
(b) To continue to examine the implementation by Member States of resolution 1514 (XV) and other
relevant resolutions on decolonization;
(c) To continue to pay special attention to the small Territories, in particular through the dispatch of
regular visiting missions, and to recommend to the General Assembly the most suitable steps to be taken to
enable the populations of those Territories to exercise their right to self-determination and independence;
(d) To take all necessary steps to enlist worldwide support among Governments, as well as national
and international organizations, for the achievement of the objectives of the Declaration and the
implementation of the relevant resolutions of the United Nations;
12. Calls upon the administering Powers to continue to cooperate with the Special Committee in the
discharge of its mandate and to receive visiting missions to the Territories to secure first-hand information
and to ascertain the wishes and aspirations of their inhabitants;
13. Also calls upon the administering Powers that have not participated in the work of the Special
Committee to do so at its 1998 session;
14. Requests the Secretary-General, the specialized agencies and other organizations of the United
Nations system to provide economic, social and other assistance to the Non-Self-Governing Territories and
to continue to do so, as appropriate, after they exercise their right to self-determination, including
independence;
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