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achievement of the objectives of the Declaration and the implementation of the
relevant resolutions of the United Nations;
(h) To observe annually the Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of NonSelf-Governing Territories; 6
9.
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;
10. Calls upon the administering Powers to ensure that the economic
activities in the Non-Self-Governing Territories under their administration do not
adversely affect the interests of the peoples but instead promote development, and to
assist them in the exercise of their right to self-determination;
11. Urges the administering Powers concerned to take effective measures to
safeguard and guarantee the inalienable rights of the peoples of the Non-SelfGoverning Territories to their natural resources, including land, and to establish and
maintain control over the future development of those resources, and requests the
administering Powers to take all necessary steps to protect the property rights of the
peoples of those Territories;
12. Reiterates that military activities and arrangements by administering
Powers in the Non-Self-Governing Territories under their administration should not
run counter to the rights and interests of the peoples of the Territories concerned,
especially their right to self-determination, including independence, calls upon the
administering Powers concerned to terminate such activities and to eliminate the
remaining military bases in compliance with the relevant resolutions of the General
Assembly, and also calls upon the administering Powers to promote alternative
sources of livelihood for the peoples of the Territories concerned;
13. 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 the Non-Self-Governing Territories, and
requests that the administering Powers 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;
14. Reaffirms that the United Nations visiting missions to the Territories are
an effective means of ascertaining the situation in the Territories, as well as the
wishes and aspirations of their inhabitants, and calls upon the administering Powers
to continue to cooperate with the Special Committee in the discharge of its mandate
and to facilitate visiting missions to the Territories;
15. Calls upon the administering Powers that have not participated formally
in the work of the Special Committee to do so at its session in 2003;
16. 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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See resolution 2911 (XXVII).
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