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10. 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, moneylaundering and other illegal and criminal activities;
(d) Illegal exploitation of the marine and other natural resources of the
Territories and the need to utilize those resources for the benefit of the peoples of
the Territories;
11. 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;
12. 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;
13. Recalls the adoption by the Economic Commission for Latin America
and the Caribbean of its resolution 574 (XXVII) of 16 May 1998, 4 calling for the
necessary mechanisms for its associate members, including Non-Self-Governing
Territories, to participate in the special sessions of the General Assembly, subject to
the rules of procedure of the Assembly, to review and assess the implementation of
the plans of action of those United Nations world conferences in which the
Territories originally participated in the capacity of observer, and in the work of the
Economic and Social Council and its subsidiary bodies;
14. Requests the Chair 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 to continue to maintain close contact on these
matters with the President of the Economic and Social Council;
15. Recalls the publication by the Department of Public Information and the
Department of Political Affairs of the Secretariat, in consultation with the United
Nations Development Programme, the specialized agencies and the Special
Committee, of an information leaflet on assistance programmes available to the
Non-Self-Governing Territories, which was updated for the United Nations website
on decolonization, and requests its continued updating and wide dissemination;
16. Welcomes the continuing efforts made by the United Nations
Development Programme in maintaining close liaison among the specialized
agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system, including the
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Economic and
Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, and in providing assistance to the
peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories;
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See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1998, Supplement No. 21 (E/1998/41),
sect. III.G.
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