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rights over their natural resources, or subordinates the rights and interests
of those peoples to foreign economic and financial interests, violates the
solemn obligations it has assumed under the Charter;
4.
Reaffirms its concern about the activities of those foreign
economic, financial and other interests which continue to exploit the natural
resources that are the heritage of the indigenous populations of the colonial
and Non-Self-Governing Territories in the Caribbean, the Pacific and other
regions, as well as their human resources, to the detriment of their
interests, thus depriving them of their right to control the resources of
their Territories and impeding the realization by those peoples of their
legitimate aspirations for self-determination and independence;
5.
Reiterates its deep concern about those activities of foreign
economic and other interests in the colonial and Non-Self-Governing
Territories which are impeding the implementation of the Declaration on the
Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, contained in its
resolution 1514 (XV), and the efforts to eliminate colonialism;
6.
Calls once again upon all Governments that have not yet done so to
take, in accordance with the relevant provisions of its resolution 2621 (XXV)
of 12 October 1970, legislative, administrative or other measures in respect
of their nationals and the bodies corporate under their jurisdiction that own
and operate enterprises in colonial and Non-Self-Governing Territories that
are detrimental to the interests of the inhabitants of those Territories, in
order to put an end to such enterprises and to prevent new investments that
run counter to the interests of the inhabitants of those Territories;
7.
Reiterates that the damaging exploitation and plundering of the
marine and other natural resources of colonial and Non-Self-Governing
Territories by foreign economic interests, in violation of the relevant
resolutions of the United Nations, is a threat to the integrity and prosperity
of those Territories;
8.
Invites all Governments and organizations of the United Nations
system to take all possible measures to ensure that the permanent sovereignty
of the peoples of colonial and Non-Self-Governing Territories over their
natural resources is fully respected and safeguarded;
9.
Urges the administering Powers concerned to take effective
measures to safeguard and guarantee the inalienable right of the peoples of
the colonial and Non-Self-Governing Territories to their natural resources and
to establish and maintain control over the future development of those
resources, and requests the administering Powers to take all necessary steps
to protect the property rights of the peoples of those Territories;
10.
Calls upon the administering Powers concerned to ensure that no
discriminatory working conditions prevail in the Territories under their
administration and to promote in each Territory a fair system of wages
applicable to all the inhabitants without any discrimination;
11.
Requests the Secretary-General to continue, through all means at
his disposal, to inform world public opinion of those activities of foreign
economic and other interests which impede the implementation of the
Declaration;
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