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administration against any environmental degradation, and requests the
specialized agencies concerned to continue to monitor environmental conditions
in those Territories;
8.
Calls upon the administering Powers, in cooperation with the
respective territorial Governments, to continue to take all necessary measures
to counter problems related to drug trafficking, money laundering and other
offences;
9.
Stresses that the achievement of the declared goal of eradication
of colonialism by the year 2000 requires full and constructive cooperation by
all parties concerned, and appeals to the administering Powers to continue to
give their full support to the Special Committee;
10.
Urges Member States to contribute to the efforts of the United
Nations to usher in the twenty-first century in a world free of colonialism,
and calls upon them to continue to give their full support to the Special
Committee in its endeavours towards that noble goal;
11.
Invites the specialized agencies and other organizations of the
United Nations system to initiate or to continue to take all necessary
measures to accelerate progress in the social and economic life of the
Territories;
12.
Requests the Special Committee to continue the examination of the
question of the small Territories and to recommend to the General Assembly the
most suitable steps to be taken to enable the populations of those Territories
to exercise their right to self-determination, and to report thereon to the
Assembly at its fifty-first session.
82nd plenary meeting
6 December 1995
B
INDIVIDUAL TERRITORIES
I.
American Samoa
The General Assembly,
Referring to resolution A above,
Noting the fact that a large number of American Samoans have emigrated
to the United States of America and are residing there,
Noting also the constitutional developments in the Territory,
Noting further that the Territory, similar to isolated communities with
limited funds, continues to experience lack of adequate medical facilities and
other infrastructural requirements,
Recalling the dispatch in 1981 of a United Nations visiting mission to
the Territory,
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