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Requests the Territories and the administering Powers to take all measures
necessary to protect and conserve the environment of the Territories against any
degradation, and once again requests the specialized agencies concerned to continue to
monitor environmental conditions in the Territories and to provide assistance to those
Territories, consistent with their prevailing rules of procedure;
Welcomes the participation of the Non-Self-Governing Territories in
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regional activities, including the work of regional organizations;
10. Stresses the importance of implementing the plan of action for the Second
International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism,3 in particular by expediting
the application of the work programme for the decolonization of each Non-SelfGoverning Territory, on a case-by-case basis, as well as by ensuring that periodic
analyses are undertaken of the progress and extent of the implementation of the
Declaration in each Territory, and that the working papers prepared by the Secretariat
on each Territory should fully reflect developments in those Territories;
11. Urges Member States to contribute to the efforts of the United Nations to
usher in a world free of colonialism within the Second International Decade for the
Eradication of Colonialism, and calls upon them to continue to give their full support
to the Special Committee in its endeavours towards that noble goal;
12. Stresses the importance of the various constitutional exercises in the
respective Territories administered by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland and the United States of America, and led by the territorial
Governments, designed to address internal constitutional structures within the present
territorial arrangements, and decides to follow closely the developments concerning
the future political status of those Territories;
13. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to report to the General
Assembly on a regular basis on the implementation of decolonization resolutions
adopted since the declaration of the First and Second International Decades for the
Eradication of Colonialism;
14. Reiterates its request that the Human Rights Committee collaborate with
the Special Committee, within the framework of its mandate on the right to selfdetermination as contained in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,4
with the aim of exchanging information, given that the Human Rights Committee is
mandated to review the situation, including political and constitutional developments,
in many of the Non-Self-Governing Territories that are within the purview of the
Special Committee;
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15. Requests the Special Committee to continue to collaborate with the
Economic and Social Council and its relevant subsidiary intergovernmental bodies,
within the framework of their respective mandates, with the aim of exchanging
information on developments in those Non-Self-Governing Territories which are
reviewed by those bodies;
16. Also requests the Special Committee to continue to examine the question of
the Non-Self-Governing Territories and to report thereon to the General Assembly at
its sixty-fifth session and on the implementation of the present resolution.
62nd plenary meeting
10 December 2009
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