A/RES/49/46 Page 15 8. Urges the administering Power and the relevant regional and international organizations to assist the territorial Government in increasing the efficiency of the agricultural and fisheries sectors; 9. Also urges the administering Power and the relevant regional and international organizations to support the efforts of the territorial Government to address the problem of environmental pollution and degradation; 10. Calls upon all countries and organizations with experience in the training of teachers to extend generous assistance to the Territory in this field, with particular emphasis on the training of its nationals; 11. Draws the attention of the administering Power to the statement made and the information on the political, economic and social situation in the Territory, provided in March 1993 by an elected member of the Territory’s Legislative Council to the Subcommittee on Small Territories, Petitions, Information and Assistance 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 ; 12. Notes that a period of fourteen years has elapsed since a United Nations mission visited the Territory and again calls upon the administering Power to facilitate the dispatch of such a mission as early as possible. IX. United States Virgin Islands The General Assembly, Referring to resolution A above, Bearing in mind the results of the referendum on political status of the Territory held on 11 October 1993, Noting the continuing interest of the territorial Government in seeking associate membership in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States and observer status in the Caribbean Community and its inability, for financial reasons, to participate in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization, Aware of serious fiscal problems of the territorial Government and of the measures it is implementing to decrease the budget deficit, Noting the necessity of further diversifying the Territory’s economy, Noting also that the question of the transfer of Water Island to the Territory is still under consideration, Noting further that in 1993 the territorial Government purchased the assets of the West Indian Company, which had significant property and development interests in the Charlotte Amalie Harbour, Noting with concern the escalating crime rate in the Territory, Recalling the dispatch in 1977 of a United Nations visiting mission to the Territory, /...