text: Ihavethehonourtotransmit herewith thereporttotheGeneral Assembly of theSpecial Committee ontheSituation withregardtotheImplementation ofthe Declaration ontheGranting ofIndependence toColonial Countries andPeoples in accordance withGeneral Assembly resolution 35/119of11December 1980.This reportcoverstheworkoftheSpecial Committee during 1981. (Signed) FrankABDULAH Chairman ofthe Special Committee ontheSituation withregardtotheImplementation oftheDeclaration ontheGranting ofIndependence toColonial Countries andPeoples1.TheS theDeclara wasestab1is 27November Declaratior. contained in suggestions theDeclarat 2.Atits Committee,1:. 17December sevennewme suitableway allTerritor 3.Atthe question of todischarge WestAfrica 1806(XVII) Committee fo 4.Byreso] session, the Non-Self-Gove information t Italsorequ inexamining eachofthet prepare any YOff addendum toaHisExcellency Mr.KurtWaldheim Secretary-General of theUnitedNations NewYork*Pre -viii-CHAPTER I* ESTABLISffilliNT, ORGANIZATION ANDACTIVITIES OFTHE SPECIAL COHHITTEE A.Establishment ~ftheSpecial C~mmittee 1.TheSpecial Committee ontheSituation withregardtotheImplementation of theDeclaration ontheGranting ofIndependence toColonial Countries andPeoples wasestablished bytheGeneral Assembly pursuant toitsresolution 1654(XVI)of 27November 1961. TheCommittee wasrequested toexamine theapplication ofthe Declaratior. ontheGranting ofIndependence toColonial Countries andPeoples, contained inAssembly resolution 1514(XV)of14December 1960,andtomake suggestions andrecommendations ontheprogress andextentoftheimplementation of theDeclaration. 2.Atitsseventeenth session, afterconsidering thereportoftheSpecial Committee, 1/theGeneral Assembly adopted resolution 1810(XVII)of 17December-1962, bywhichitenlarged theSpecial Committee withtheaddition of sevennewmembers. Itinvited theSpecial Committee "tocontinue toseekthemost suitable waysandmeansforthespeedyandtotalapplication oftheDeclaration to allTerritories whichhavenotyetattained independence". 3.Atthesamesession, byresolution 1805(XVII)of14December 1962onthe question ofSouthWestAfrica, theGeneral Assembly ~~quested theSpecial Committee todischarge mutatis mutandis thetasksassigned totheSpecial Committee for&'uth WestAfrica byresolution 1702(XVI)of19December 1961. Byresolution 1806(XVII)of14December 1962,theAssenilily decided todissolve theSpecial Committee forSouthWestAfrica. 4.Byresolution 1970(XVIII)of15December 1963,adoptedatitseighteenth session, theGeneral Assembly decided todissolve theCommittee onInformation from Non-Self-Governing Territories andrequested theSpecial Committee tostudythe information transmitted underArticle 73~oftheCharter oftheUnitedNations. Italsorequested theSpecial Committee totakethisinformation fullyintoaccount inexamining thesituation withregardtotheimplementation oftheDeclaration in eachoftheNon-Self-Governing Territories andtoundertake anyspecial studyand prepare anyspecial reportitmightconsider necessary.i_~ !r6. entitl, ofthe People 2621( iITIplem 7. recomm 23May (A/35/ Action Indepe thefo " !IOfficial Records oftheGeneral Assembly, Seventeenth Session, Annexes, addendum toagenda item25,document A/5238.*Previously issued underthesymbol A/36/23 (PartI)andAdd.l. -1--==:cc== __--'----==-T~~~. 5.Atthesamesession andateachsUbsequent session, theGeneral Assembly, afterconsidering thereportoftheSpecial Committee, hasadopted aresolution renewing themandate oftheCommittee. y 6.Following itsconsideration ofthereportoftheSpecial Committee ontheitem entitled "Special programme ofactivitiesinconnexion withthetenthanniversary oftheDeclaration ontheGranting ofIndependence toColonial Countries and Peoples" ~/atitstwenty-fifth session, theGeneral Assembly adopted resolution
analysis: This text appears to be a report from the United Nations Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. The report discusses the Committee's activities, the implementation of the Declaration, and the situation with regards to colonial countries and peoples. The text does not seem to focus on specific economic, environmental, or social issues, but rather on the political and human rights aspects of colonialism.