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 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

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. Search results for the reports of the Secretary-General on Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations