text: 1•••\:.;., I I jA/AC.109/1043 English Page3 I.ORGANIZATION OFTHESEMINAR 6.TheSeminar intheCaribbean region washeldatBridgetown from19to 21June1990. 7.TheSeminar heldfivemeetings inwhichrepresentatives ofUnited Nations bodies, Non-Self-Governing Territories andintergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations, aswellaseminent persons invited asspecial guests alsotookpart(forfurther details, seeannexIIItothepresent report). 8.TheSeminar wasconducted byMr.Tesfaye Tadesse, Permanent Representative of Ethiopia totheUnited Nations andChairman oftheSpecial Committee, asits Chairman, withtheparticipation ofthefollowing members oftheSpecial Committee: Afghanistan, China, Coted'Ivoire, Cuba,Czechoslovakia, Norway and Trinidad andTobago. 9.Atthe1stmeeting, on19June1990,thefollowing representatives were appointed officers oftheSeminar: Mr.LuYongshou (China), Mr.N'ZiAnet(Cote d'Ivoire), Mr.SverreJ.BerghJohanssen (Norway) asVice-Chairmen, Mrs.MariaCecilia Bermudez (Cuba) asRapporteur, andMr.FrankD.Abdulah (Deputy Secretary-General oftheCaribbean Community (CARICOM») asChairman oftheDrafting Committee. Thefollowing participants wereappointed toserveasmembers ofthat Committee: Mr.Mohauddin Taeb(Afghanistan), Mr.Alexander Slaby(Czechoslovakia)" Mrs.Margaret A.King-Rousseau (Trinidad andTobago), Mr.RalphT.O'Neal(British Virgin Islands), Mr.JohnOsborne (Montserrat), Mr.Wendal L.Swannand Mr.AldenDurham (Turks andCaicos Islands) andMr.Carlyle Corbin (United States Virgin Islands). Alsoserving ontheCommittee werespecial guests, MrRogerClark, Mr.PaulLeary, Mr.Anthony Thorndike andMr.PeterSchwab, aswell asrepresentatives ofnon-governmental organizations, Ms.Judith L.Bourne and Ms.Phyllis Fleming-Banks. 10.TheSeminar considered thethemes recommended bytheGeneral Assembly inits resolution 44/100 (seeannex Itothepresent report). 11.CONDUCT OFTHESEMINAR A.Proceedings ofthemeetings 11.TheSeminar wasopened on19June1990byMr.Tesfay Tadesse, Permanent Representative ofEthiopia totheUnited Nations andwhoserved asChairman ofthe Seminar. Mr.Tadesse introduced thePrimeMinister ofBarbados. 12.Mr.L.Erskine Sandiford, Prime theopening meeting oftheSeminar. annex11tothepresent report.Minister ofBarbados, delivered anaddress at Thatstatement isreproduced inextenso in 13.Amessage received fromtheSecretary-General oftheUnited Nations wasread outbytherepresentative oftheUnder-Secretary-General forSpecial Political Questions, Regional Co-operation, Decolonization andTrusteeship. I ...A/AC.I0911043 English Page4 14.Atitsfinalmeeting on21June1990,theSeminar adopted byacclamation a finaldocument entitled "Summary ofdiscussions". Forfurther details, see chapter IIIofthepresent report, Atthesamemeeting, aresolution of appreciation totheGovernment ofBarbados wasreadout(seeannexIVtothe present report). 15.Inhisstatement following theaddress ofthePrimeMinister, Mr.Tadesse said thatoneofthemainobjectives oftheSeminar wastolearnatfirsthandtheviews oftherepresentatives ofNon-Self-Governing Territories ontheirrespective Territories, sothattheSpecial Committee couldtakeintoaccount thoseviewswhen carrying outitsmandate according totheprinciples oftheCharter oftheUnited Nations andtherelevant resolutions oftheGeneral Assembly. 16.Notingthatwhenthethreechapters oftheCharter onTrustand Non-Self-Governing Territories wereadopted in1945,theypertained tomorethan twothirdsofthecurrent membership oftheUnitedNations. Twoofthechapters concerned theInternational Trusteeship Systemproviding forindependence asan alternative toself-government. Theremaining chapter, dealing with Non-Self-Governing Territories, fellshortofmentioning thatoption. 17.ThemeritofGeneral Assembly resolution 1514(XV)of14December 1960, containing theDeclaration ontheGranting ofIndependence toColonial Countries
analysis: The text appears to be a report on a seminar held in the Caribbean region, discussing the issues related to Non-Self-Governing Territories. The topics mentioned in the report, such as the views of representatives of these territories, the international trusteeship system, and the granting of independence to colonial countries, suggest that the focus is on international relations and development rather than specific sectors like economy, health, or education.