QUESTIONS RELATING TO NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES 591 render all help to the people of these Territories the implementation of the present resolution to the in their efforts freely to decide their future status; General Assembly at its twenty-first session; "6. Requests the Special Committee to examine "7. Requests the Secretary-General to give all as- the situation in these Territories and to report on sistance in the implementation of this resolution."

CHAPTER III QUESTIONS RELATING TO TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION ON NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES

TERRITORIES ON WHICH INFORMATION United Kingdom: Aden; Antigua; Bahamas; Barba- WAS TRANSMITTED DURING 1965 dos; Basutoland; Bechuanaland; Bermuda; British Guiana*; British Honduras; the British Virgin Under Chapter XI of the United Nations Islands; Brunei; the Cayman Islands; Dominica; the Charter, the United Nations Members responsi- Falkland Islands; Fiji; Gibraltar; the Gilbert and ble for the administration of territories whose Ellice Islands; Grenada; Hong Kong; Mauritius; Montserrat; the New Hebrides (Condominium with people have not yet attained a full measure of France); Pitcairn; St. Helena; St. Kitts-Nevis- self-government recognize the principle that the Anguilla; St. Lucia; St. Vincent; the Seychelles; interests of the inhabitants of these territories the Solomon Islands; Swaziland; the Turks and are paramount. (For text of Chapter XI of Caicos Islands United States: American Samoa; Guam; the United the Charter, see APPENDIX III.) States Virgin Islands In keeping with this principle, the adminis- tering Members undertake, among other obli- * British Guiana attained its independence as gations, to develop self-government in the Guyana on 26 May 1966. territories, taking into account the political as- No information was transmitted on the ter- pirations of the people. In accordance with the provisions of Article 73e of the Charter, they ritories under Portuguese administration, name- also send information each year to the Secre- ly, Angola (including Cabinda), the Cape Verde Archipelago, Guinea (Portuguese), tary-General on the economic, social and edu- cational conditions in the territories. Some Macau and dependencies, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe and dependencies, and administering Members also inform the General Timor (Portuguese) and dependencies. By reso- Assembly's 24-member Special Committee on lution 1542 (XV) of 15 December I960,1 the the Situation with regard to the Implementa- General Assembly considered that these were tion of the Declaration on the Granting of In- non-self-governing territories within the mean- dependence to Colonial Countries and Peoples ing of Chapter XI of the United Nations about political and constitutional developments Charter. Nor was information transmitted by in the territories for which they are responsible. the Government of the United Kingdom on These, in 1965, included Australia, New Zea- Southern Rhodesia, which, the General Assem- land, Spain, the United Kingdom and the bly affirmed by resolution 1747 (XVI) of 28 United States. June 1962,2 was a non-self-governing territory During 1965, information relating to 1964 within the meaning of Chapter XI of the was transmitted to the Secretary-General with Charter. respect to the following territories:

STUDY OF INFORMATION Australia: The Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Papua TRANSMITTED BY France: The New Hebrides (Condominium with United Kingdom) ADMINISTERING MEMBERS New Zealand: The Cook Islands; Niue Island; Up to 1963, the information transmitted by

the Tokelau Islands 1 Spain: Equatorial Guinea (Fernando P6o and Rio 2 For text, see Y.U.N., 1960, p. 513. Muni); Ifni; Spanish Sahara For text, see Y.U.N., 1962, p. 426.