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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/72
26 February 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda items 91 and 18
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/52/621)]
52/72.
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 "Activities of foreign economic and other interests which impede
the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
in Territories under colonial domination",
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 its resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, as well as all its other relevant resolutions,
including, in particular, resolution 46/181 of 19 December 1991,
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 of the United Nations and General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) is contrary
to the purposes and principles of the Charter,
1
A/52/23 (Part III), chap. V. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fiftysecond Session, Supplement No. 23.
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