A/RES/61/123. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2006

• Resolution Number: A/RES/61/123
• Year: 2006
• Session: 61st
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/61/123

General Assembly Distr.: General

15 January 2007

Sixty-first session

Agenda item 36

06-50181

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 14 December 2006

[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee

(Fourth Committee) (A/61/412)]

61/123. Economic and other activities which affect the interests

of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories

The General Assembly,

Having considered

the item entitled “Economic and other activities which

affect the interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories”,

Having examined

the chapter of the report 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 relating to the item,

1

Recalling

General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, as

well as all other relevant resolutions of the Assembly, including, in particular,

resolutions 46/181 of 19 December 1991 and 55/146 of 8 December 2000,

Reaffirming

the solemn obligation of the administering Powers under the

Charter of the United Nations to promote the political, economic, social and

educational advancement of the inhabitants of the Territories under their

administration and to protect the human and natural resources of those Territories

against abuses,

Reaffirming also

that any economic or other activity that has a negative impact

on the interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories and on the

exercise of their right to self-determination in conformity with the Charter and

General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) is contrary to the purposes and principles

of the Charter,

Reaffirming further

that the natural resources are the heritage of the peoples of

the Non-Self-Governing Territories, including the indigenous populations,

Aware

of the special circumstances of the geographical location, size and

economic conditions of each Territory, and bearing in mind the need to promote the

economic stability, diversification and strengthening of the economy of each

Territory,

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1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/61/23), chap. V.