UN Documentation: Decolonization

Article 73e of the Charter requires UN Member States which administer "territories whose peoples have not yet attained a full measure of self-government" to transmit to the Secretary-General information related to the economic, social and educational conditions in the territories.

Several committees were established to review the information provided under Article 73e from 1947-1963.

Special Committee on Information Transmitted under Article 73e of the Charter (1947-1951)

• Document series symbols for working documents
  • A/AC.9/--
  • A/AC.17/--
  • A/AC.28/--
• Sessional reports
  • Supplement to the General Assembly Official Records (GAOR)
  • no distinctive symbol pattern
  • Search results for Report of the Special Committee on Information Transmitted under Article 73e of the Charter

Committee on Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories (1952-1963)

• Document series symbol for working documents
  • A/AC.35/--
• Sessional reports 
  • Supplement to the General Assembly Official Records (GAOR)
  • no distinctive symbol pattern
  • Search results for Report of the Committee on Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories
• Committee dissolved by A/RES/1970 (XVIII) of 16 December 1963

Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (1963-present)

• A/RES/1970 (XVIII) of 16 December 1963 assigned the Special Committee to examine information transmitted under Article 73e
• Secretary-General reports information transmitted under article 73e to the General Assembly

Special Committee of Six on the Transmission of Information under Article 73e of the Charter (1960)

• Established by A/RES/1467 (XIV) to study the principles which should guide Members in determining whether or not an obligation exists to transmit information called for in Article 73e of the Charter
• Document series symbol for working documents
  • A/AC.100/--
• Meeting records
  • A/AC.100/SR.1-14
• Report: A/4526
  • See General Assembly Official Records, 15th session, Annexes, agenda item 38 (page 468 of pdf)
• Final outcome: A/RES/1541 (XV) : Principles which should guide Members in determining whether or not an obligation exists to transmit the information called for under Article 73e of the Charter