A/RES/59/134 A-B address the socio-economic development challenges, including unemployment and the limited transport and communications problems; the high X Turks and Caicos Islands Noting the results of the general elections held in April 2003, Noting with concern the vulnerability of the Territory to drug trafficking and related activities, as well as its problems caused by illegal immigration and the need for continued cooperation between the administering Power and the territorial Government in countering drug trafficking and money-laundering, Taking note of the constitutional review process led by the territorial Government, Welcomes the continuing constitutional review process led by the Government of the Turks and Caicos Islands in cooperation with the administering Power; XI United States Virgin Islands 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 the pending request by the Territory to the administering Power for the delegation of authority to proceed, as well as the 2003 resolution of the territorial legislature in support of that request, Noting also the necessity of further diversifying the economy of the Territory, Noting further the efforts of the Government of the Territory to promote the Territory as an offshore financial services centre, Recalling that the Territory has not received a United Nations visiting mission since 1977, and bearing in mind the formal request of the Territory for such a mission in 1993 to assist the Territory in its political education process and to observe the Territory’s only referendum on political status options in its history, Noting the ongoing cooperation between the territorial Government and Denmark on the exchange of artefacts and archives, 1. Requests the administering Power to continue to assist the territorial Government in achieving its political, economic and social goals; 2. Once again requests the administering Power to facilitate the participation of the Territory, as appropriate, in various organizations, in particular the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, the Caribbean Community and the Association of Caribbean States; Calls for the inclusion of the Territory in regional programmes of the 3. United Nations Development Programme, consistent with the participation of other Non-Self-Governing Territories; Notes the 4. Government and the proposed, to relieve administering Power 10 economic difficulties being experienced by the territorial fiscal austerity measures being implemented, and others the Territory’s cash flow shortage, and calls upon the to continue to provide every assistance required by the

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