U.N. Committee Asks
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For Urgent Action
The Special United Nations Com mittee on the ending of colonialism recently asked the United Kingdom, as the administering power, to take "urgent measures" to grant indepen dence to the New Hebrides, and to give their people the opportunity to express their wishes on the future through "well-established democratic processes based on the principle of universal adult suffrage".
The committee made similar re quests to the United Kingdom on the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Pitcairn Island and the Solomon Islands (PIM, Dec., p. 15). It made no reference to France as an administering power in the New Hebrides.
The United Kingdom was asked to "undertake steps to accelerate the social and economic advancement" of the New Hebrides and other territories.
The committee added that a UN visit to the territories would be use ful "in assessing the political climate and aspirations of the people".