General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/41/760 23 October 1986 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH Forty-first session Agenda item 19 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECLARATION ON THE GRANTING OF INDEPENDENCE TO COLONIAL COUNTRIES AND PEOPLES Chapters of 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 relating to specific Terr i tar ies not covered by other agenda i terns Report of the Fourth Committee Rapporteur : Mr. Nihat AKYOL (Turkey) I. INTRODUCTION 1. At its 3rd plenary meeting, on 20 September 1986, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Genera 1 Commit tee, decided to include in the agenda of its forty-first session the item entitled: “Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Cauntr ies and Peoples: “(a) Report of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colon ia 1 Coun tr i es and Peoples ; “(b) Report of the Secretary-General”. At the same meeting, the Assembly decided to refer to the Fourth Committee those chapters of the report of the Special Committee relating to specific Territories. 2. The chapters of the Special Committee’s report concerning the Territories which were not covered by other agenda items related to the following specific Territories: 86-26976 4696P (E) / l ** \\ . A/41/760 Engl ieh Page 2 Relevant chapter of the report Territory of the Special Committee A/ Western Sahara Gibraltar Pitcairn AnqUilla Bermuda British Virgin Islands Csyman Islands A/41/23 (Part VI) , chap. IX Montserrat Turks and Caicos Islands St. Helena 1 American Samoa ; 1 United States Virgin Islands ) Guam !, 1 Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ) 1 Tokelau 1 A/41/23 (Part VTII), chap. XI 3. At its 2nd meeting on 24 September, the Fourth Committee decided to hold a general debate cover inq agenda i terns 19, 104, 106, 12, 107 and 108, on the understanding that individual proposals on matters covered by those items: would be considered separately. The Committee held the general debate on those items at its 11th to 17th meetings, between 13 and 21 October. 4. The Fourth Committee considered item 19 at its 9th to 18th meetings, between 8 and 22 October (see A/C.4/41/SR.9-18). 11 TO be incorporated in Official Records of the General-- Assembly, Forty-first Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/41/23). / . ~/41/76Q Englirh Page 3 5. At the 9th meeting, on 8 October, the Rapporteur of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countr iea and Peoples made a atatement in which he gave an account of the relevant activities of the Special Committee during 1986 and drew the Fourth Committee’s attention to the chaptera of the report of the Special Committee referred to in paragraph 2 above, containing, inter alia, the related draft decisions and draft reaolutione eubmitted by the Committee for the consideration 0:‘ the Fourth Committee, as well aa the relevant documentation of the Special Committee (A/AC.109/848-857, 858 and Corr.1, 859-868, 873 and Corr.1, 874 and Corr.1 and 2 and 877 and Add.1). 6. The Fourth Committee had before it the report of the Secretary-General on L.hr aueetion of Western Sahara (A/41/673) Rubmitted in accordance with Genersl Assembly resolution 40/50 of 2 Uecember 1985. 7. In addition, the Fourth Committee had before it the following communication8 addressed to the Secretary-General t (a) Letter dated 8 May 1986 from the Permanent Repreeentative of Morambioue and the Union of Soviet Eocialist Republics to the Unite? Nations (A/41/332-S/18055) I (b) Letters dated 15 May and 23 July 1986 from the Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations (A/41/341-S/18065 and Corr .l, A/41/485-S/18236) I (c) Letters dated 20 and 25 May, 18 June and 7 July 1986 from the ChargC d’affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of the Union of Soviet Socialiet Republic6 to the United Nations (A/41/349-S/18070, A/41/373-S/18100, A/41/420-S/18170, A/41/444-S/18203) ; (d) Letter dated 25 Mcry 1986 from the Permanent Representative of Bulgaria to the United Nations (A/41/367-S/18095) I (e) Letter dated 23 May 1986 from the Chargks d’affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mionions of Angola and of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the United Nations (A/41/372-S/18099 and Corr .l and 2) 1 (f) Letter dated 22 May 1986 from the Permanent Representative of mngladeah to the United Nations (A/41/375-S/18103)) (g) Note verbale dated 13 June 1986 from the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nstions (A/41/435) t (h) Letter dated 22 July 1986 from the Permanent Representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations (A/41/478-S/18233) I (i) Note verbal? dated 17 October 1986 from the Permanent Mission of Morocco to the Ilnited Nations (A/41/723). / . A/41/760 English Page 4 8. The Fourth Committee granted the following reaueatr for hearing in connection with itr consideration of the i tern: Meeting at which request Petitioner for hearing was granted Ms. Elizabeth Bounda, Micronesia Coalition (A/C. 4/41/‘2) 3rd meeting Me. Anne E. Simon, Center for Conrtitutional Riqhto (A/C.4/41/2/Add.l) 3rd meeting Mr. Majid Abdullah, Frente Popular para la Liberacibn de Saguia el-liamrr y de Rio de Oro (Frante POLISARI0) (A/C. 4/41/3) 3rd meeting Mrs. Hope A. Criatobalr Organisation Of People for Indigenous Right@ (A/C. 4/41/S) 4th meeting Mr. Jesue S. Camacho, Guam landowner@’ Asaociati,an (A/C.4/41/5/Add.l) 4th meeting Mr. William Felice, InternatioNJl League for the Right8 and Liberation of People8 (A/C. 4/41/3/Add. 1) 8th meeting Me. Lynn Modjabl, Western Sahara Campaign for Huma Rights and Humanitar ien Relief, u.S.A. (A/C.4/41/3/Add.2) 8th meeting Mr. R. David Addams, National Conference of Black Lawyer% (A/C.4/41/3/Add.3) 8th meeting Ms. Sue Rabbitt mff, Minority Rights Group (A/C. 4/41/2/Add. 2) 10th meeting Mr. Nathaniel Francis (A/C.4/41/7) 12th meeting 9. The Fourth Committee heard ototementa of the petitioner8 aa follows: Ms. Anne E. Simon at the 9th meeting, on 8 October) Ma. Ingrid Kircher (on behalf of the Minority Right6 Group), Ms. Elizabeth Bounds, and Ms. Rosa S. Palomo (on behalf of the Organization of People fo* Indigenous Riqhte) at the 10th meeting, on 9 October; Mr. William Felice and Mr. R. David Addsma at the 11th meeting, on 13 October; Mr. James Knight (on behalf of the Wertern Sahara Campaign for Human Rights and Humqnitar ian Relief, U.S.A.) at the 12th meeting, on 14 October, Mr. Daniel Malcolm (on behalf of Mr. Nathaniel Francir) at the 13th meeting, on 16 October) and Mr. Omar Mansour (on behalf of the Frente POLISARIO) at the 15th meeting, on 20 October. Mt. Camacho did not appear before the Committee. / . A/41/760 Kngliah PAqe 5 II. C~NSIDEKATION OF PROPOSALS 10. FolIowiny its consideration of the propoealn relating to the 15 Territories referred to in paragraph 2, the Fourth Committee adopted 11 draft resolutions, 2 draft consenauaee and 1 draft decision. An account at the Committee’s consideration of the proposals is given In paragraphs 12 to 10. 11. At the 18th meeting, on 22 October, the Secretary of the Committee made R statement, in accordance with rult 153 of zbr rulee of procedure of the General Assembly, concerning the programme budget implications relating to the proposals on Western Sahara, Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman 7ttlands, Montserrat, the Turks and Caicow Islander, St. Helena, American Samoa y the IJni ted State8 Virgin Islands, Guam and Tokalau. A. I-P-Pitcairn and Gibraltar-- 12. At its 13th meeting, on 22 October, the Fourth Committee adopted, without objection, proposals on the aucetiona of Pitcairn and Glhraltar as follows: (a) The draft consensus concerning Pitcairn contained in par tgraph 87 of chapter IX of the repor,: of the Special Committee (AJ41/23 (Part VI)) (see para. 20, draft consensu8 I). (h) The draft cone. SUB concerning Gibraltsr contained in document A/C. 4/41/L. 4 (see para. 20, draft cOtlseneus XI). B. .--St. Helena 13. At its 18th meeting, on 22 ;rbctObcr , the Fourth Committee took ac:tion on the draft decision on the mention of St. Helensr contained in paragrapl 87 of chapter IX of the report of the Special Committee (A/41/23 (Part Vl)), as follows: .-2/ (8) At the rMuest of the United Kingdom of Great Rritai nnd Northern Ireland, a seyrate vote was taken nn the sixth sentence of the drart decision, which readr “The Assembly notes with deep concern the continued presence of military facilities on the dependency of Asctnaion Islnnd and, in that reqard, rr~*a\ls all the relevant United Nations resolution8 and decisions concerning rltlitnry Uses and installations in colonial and Non-Self-Governing Territcx ies”. ‘I’he sixth sentence of the draft decision was retained by a. recorded vote of 75 to 10, with 21 abstentions. The voting was es follows: 2/ 2; The representative of C;re United Kingdom of G 08,: Britain and Northern Ireland made a statement in explanation of vote.