text: relatil'\g totheorganization ofitsworkputforward bytheChairman (A!AC.I09/L.1385 andCorr.l), theSpecial Committee decided totakeupthequestion ofsending visiting missions toTerritories asaseparate item.TheSpecial Committee further decided thattheitemshouldbeconsidered atitsplenary meetings and,asappropriate, byitsSub-Committee onSmallTerritories in connexion withitsexamination ofspecific Territories. I 2.TheSpecial Committee considered theitematits1184thand1188thmeetings, on21January and4August. 3.Duringitsconsideration oftheitem,theSpecial Committee tookintoaccount theprovisions ofrelevant General Assembly resolutions, including inparticular resolution 35/119of11December 1980ontheImplementation oftheDeclaration on theGranting ofIndependence toCOlonial Countries andPeoples. Byparagraph 13of thatresolution, theAssembly calledupontheadministering Powers"tocontinue to co-operate withtheSpecial Committee inthedischarge ofitsmandate and,in particular, topermittheaccessofVisiting missions totheTerritories [under theiradministration] tosecurefirst-hand information andascertain thewishesand aspirations oftheirinhabitants". Inaddition, theCommittee paiddueregardto therelevant provisions ofGeneral Assembly resolutions 35/21,35/22,35/23,35/24 and35/25of11November 1980,relating respectively toBermuda, theBritish Virgin Islands, theCAymanIslands andMontserrat, Guam,American Samoa,theUnitedStates VirginIslands andtheTurksandcaicosIslands, andGeneral Assembly decisions 35/407, 35/408and35/409ofthesamedaterelating respectively totheCocos (Reeling) Islands, TOkelau andSt.Helena. FUrther, theSpecial Committee took intoaccount therelevant provisions ofGeneral Assembly resolution 35/118of 11December 1980containing thePlanofActionfortheFUllImplementation ofthe Declaration ontheGranting ofIndependence toColonial Countries andPeoples. By paragraph 17Cc)ofthePlanofAction, theGeneral Assembly directed theSpecial Committee "tocontinue tosendvisiting missions tothecolonial Territories at periodic intervals inordertoenabletheSpecial Committee toobtainfirst--hand information onconditions inthoseTerritories". 4.Initsconsideration oftheitem,theSpecial Committee hadbeforeit thereportofitsChairman (seeannextothepresent chapter) onhisconsultations withrepresentatives oftheadministering Powers, undertaken inaccordance with paragraph 3oftheresolution adopted bytheCommittee atits1168thmeeting on 5August1980.!I *Previously iss~edaspartofA/36/23 (Part11). !I9fficial RecordsoftheGeneral Assembly, Thirty-fifth Session, Supplemen~ No.23(A!35/23/Rev.l), chap.Ill,para.11. -78-s.Asrefle Committee dis andtheother fromtheadmi theUnitedSt 6.Statemen ll84thmeetin andPV.ll88). 7.Atthe1 resolution on (AlAC.l09/L.l resolution wi 8.015Aug representativ respective Go 9.Inadditi Special Commit considering th provisions of paragraph 3 a totheitem. 10.Subsequen Territories as Territories COl recommendatiom Territories, a~5.Asreflected intherelevant chapters ofthepresent report, theSpecialCommittee dispatched twovisiting missions duringtheyear,onetoTbkelau inJuneandtheothertoAmerican SamoainJuly,inre~ponse totheinvitations receivedfromtheadministering Powersconcerned, namely, ~~eGovernments ofNewZealand and theUnitedStatesofAmerica, respectively. 6.Statements relating totheitemweremadebytheChairman atthe1184thmeeting on21January andthe1188thmeeting on4August (A/AC.I09/PV.ll84andPV.1188). 7.Atthe11~8thmeeting, on4August, theChairman drewattention toadraftresolution ontheitemprepared byhimonthebasisofconsultations(A/AC.I09/L.1398). Atthesamemeeting, theSpecial Committee adopted thedraftresolution without objection (seepara.11below). 8.On5August, thetextoftheresolution (A/AC.I09/668) wastransmitted tothe representatives oftheadministering Powersconcerned fortheattention oftheirrespective Governments.
analysis: The text appears to be related to the United Nations' efforts to promote decolonization and self-determination in colonial territories. It discusses the organization of visiting missions to these territories to gather information and assess the wishes and aspirations of their inhabitants. The text also mentions General Assembly resolutions and decisions related to decolonization and the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples.