A mass flight of Sahrawi refugees and decades of armed conflict followed, as the UN declared the region a "non self-governing territory".
Below the heading, he attached chapter 11 of the UN charter, which legislates for non-self governing territories.
Dispatched to "governors of non-self governing territories", it began: "The growth of anti-colonial activity is a feature of the general world situation with which we have to reckon these days.
It recognises a negative right of a people not to be deprived of its means of subsistence, and imposes an obligation on those parties still responsible for non-self governing and trust territories (colonies) to encourage and respect their self-determination.
The imperial residue of overseas territoriesSINCE 1946, the United Nations has compiled a list of the world's "Non-Self-Governing Territories": overseas domains it considers, in effect, to be colonies.
This week marks the UN International Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories.
Emphasis was placed not on legal differences among colonies, protected states, protectorates, and states under the suzerainty of another state but on the practical distinction between self-governing and non-self-governing territories.
The United Nations has expressed concern for people living in non-self-governing territories.
East Timor was returned to its preannexation status of independence, but as a non-self-governing territory under UN supervision.
The island is a non-self-governing territory – or as some put it, a colony – whose strategic importance is underscored by the degree to which it is militarized.
Tokelau is one of the world's seventeen remaining "non-self-governing" territories, mostly former colonial outposts such as Bermuda, Gibraltar and St, Helena.
