A/RES/70/95. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2015

• Resolution Number: A/RES/70/95
• Year: 2015
• Session: 70th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/70/95

General Assembly Distr.: General

15 December 2015

Seventieth session

Agenda item 60

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 9 December 2015

[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee

(Fourth Committee) (A/70/502)]

70/95. Economic and other activities which af fect the interests of

the peo ples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories

The Genera l Assem bly

,

Hav ing con sidered

the item e ntitled “Econ omic a nd oth er acti vities whic h

affec t the i nterest s of th e peop les of the Non -Self- Govern ing Territ ories” ,

Hav ing exami ned

the chap ter of the repo rt of the Speci al Commit tee on the

Situ ation with reg ard to the Implem entatio n o f th e D eclarat ion on the Grantin g o f

Inde penden ce to C olonia l Count ries a nd Peop les for 2015 r elatin g to th e item,

1

Reca lli ng

i ts re soluti on 15 14 (XV ) o f 14 Decemb er 1 960, as well as a ll ot her

rele vant reso lutions o f t he Gener al Assemb ly, includi ng, in parti cular, res olution s

46/1 81 of 1 9 Dece mber 19 91, 55/ 146 of 8 De cember 20 00 a nd 6 5/119 o f

10 D ecembe r 2010 ,

Rea ffirm ing

t he so lemn obli gation of the admi nisteri ng Po wers unde r the

Cha rter of the Uni ted N ations to pr omote th e po litical, eco nomic, soc ial a nd

educ ationa l adv anceme nt of t he in habitan ts o f the Ter ritorie s und er th eir

admi nistrat ion and to prote ct t he human and na tural resou rces of those Terr itories

agai nst abu ses,

Rea ffirming also

th at any econom ic or other a ctivit y that has a negativ e impa ct

on the interes ts of the peo ples of th e Non-Se lf-Gov erning Ter ritorie s and on the

exer cise o f their right to sel f-deter minati on in c onform ity wit h the C harter and

Gene ral Assemb ly r esolut ion 1514 (X V) is c ontrary to the purp oses and princ iples

of t he Cha rter,

Rea ffirming furth er

th at the natura l resou rces a re the herita ge of the pe oples of

the Non-Se lf-Gove rning Te rritorie s, incl uding the ind igenou s popul ations,

Aware

of the speci al circ umstan ces of the g eograp hical l ocatio n, size and

econ omic conditi ons o f each Territo ry, and beari ng in mind the need t o pro mote the

stab ility, di versifi cation and str engthen ing of the ec onomy of each Territor y,

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1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/70/23), chap. V.