A/RES/76/86
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 60
Economic and other activities which affect the interests
of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 9 December 2021
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/76/422, para. 7)]
76/86.
Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the
peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories
The General Assembly,
Having considered the item entitled “Economic and other activities which affect
the interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories”,
Having examined the report 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 for 2021, 1
Recalling its resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, as well as all its other
relevant resolutions, including, in particular, resolutions 46/181 of 19 December
1991, 55/146 of 8 December 2000, 65/119 of 10 December 2010 and 75/123 of
10 December 2020,
Reaffirming the solemn obligation of the administering Powers under the
Charter of the United Nations to promote the political, economic, social and educational
advancement of the inhabitants of the Territories under their administration and to
protect the human and natural resources of those Territories against abuses,
Reaffirming also that any economic or other activity, including the use of the
Non-Self-Governing Territories for military activity, that has a negative impact on the
interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories and on the exercise of
their right to self-determination in conformity with the Charter, General Assembly
resolution 1514 (XV) and the other relevant resolutions of the United Nations on
decolonization is contrary to the purposes and principles of the Charter,
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