A/RES/54/85
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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 volcanoes, and other environmental
problems, such as beach and coastal erosion and droughts, on those Territories;
(c) Ways and means to assist the Territories in fighting drug trafficking, money-laundering and other
illegal and criminal activities;
(d) The illegal exploitation of the marine resources of the Territories and the need to utilize those
resources for the benefit of the peoples of the Territories;
10. Recommends that the executive heads of the specialized agencies and other organizations of the
United Nations system formulate, with the active cooperation of the regional organizations concerned,
concrete proposals for the full implementation of the relevant resolutions of the United Nations and submit
the proposals to their governing and legislative organs;
11. Also recommends that the specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations
system continue to review at the regular meetings of their governing bodies the implementation of General
Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) and other relevant resolutions of the United Nations;
12. Welcomes the continuing initiative exercised by the United Nations Development Programme
in maintaining close liaison among the specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations
system and in providing assistance to the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories;
13. Encourages Non-Self-Governing Territories to take steps to establish and/or strengthen disaster
preparedness and management institutions and policies;
14. Requests the administering Powers concerned to facilitate the participation of appointed and
elected representatives of Non-Self-Governing Territories in the relevant meetings and conferences of the
specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system so that the Territories may
benefit from the related activities of those agencies and organizations;
15. Recommends that all Governments intensify their efforts in the specialized agencies and other
organizations of the United Nations system of which they are members to accord priority to the question
of providing assistance to the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories;
16. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to assist the specialized agencies and other
organizations of the United Nations system in working out appropriate measures for implementing the
relevant resolutions of the United Nations and to prepare for submission to the relevant bodies, with the
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