Activities of foreign economic and other interests which impede the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Territories under colonial domination : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
1994
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SymbolA/RES/49/40
TitleActivities of foreign economic and other interests which impede the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Territories under colonial domination : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
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Summary
Condemns 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, and the efforts to eliminate colonialism; reiterates that the exploitation and plundering of the marine and other natural resources of colonial and Non-Self-Governing Territories by foreign economic interests, is a threat to the integrity and prosperity of those Territories; 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; calls upon the administering Powers concerned to ensure that no discriminatory and unjust wage systems or working conditions prevail in the Territories.
Action note1994-12-09
Vote summary
Adopted 113-44-6, 83rd meeting
Meeting record
A/49/PV.83
Agenda information
A/49/251 82 Activities of foreign economic and other interests which impede the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Territories under colonial domination. DECOLONIZATION--FOREIGN INTERESTS
A/49/251 18 Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. DECOLONIZATION
A/49/251 18 Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. DECOLONIZATION
Date[New York] : UN, 30 Jan. 1994.
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Adopted at the 83rd plenary meeting, 9 Dec. 1994.