Non-Self-Governing Territories ataseminar oftheSpecial Committee. I ...A/AC.109/1040 English Page3 I.ORGANIZATION OFTHESEMINAR 6.TheSeminar inthePacific region washeldatPortVila,Vanuatu, from9to 11May1990. 7.TheSeminar heldfivemeetings, inwhichmembers oftheSpecial Committee, representatives fromNon-Self-Governing Territories, representatives of administering Powers (NewZealand andPortugal), eminent persons invited asspecial guests andnon-governmental organizations participated. Thefollowing States members oftheSouthPacific Forums alsoparticipated intheseminar: Australia, PapuaNewGuinea, NewZealand, theSolomon Islands andVanuatu. (Forfurther details, seeannexIIItothepresent report.) B.TheSeminar wasconducted byMr.Tesfaye Tadesse, Permanent Representative of Ethiopia totheUnited Nations andChairman oftheSpecial Committee, asits Chairman, withtheparticipation ofthefollowing members oftheSpecial Committee: Chile,Fiji,Indonesia, Norway, Tunisia, theUnited Republic of Tanzania andYugoslavia. 9.Atthe1stmeeting, on9May1990,thefollowing representatives were appointed officers oftheSeminar: Messrs. WinstonThompson (Fiji), SverreJ.BerghJohanssen (Norway), andGhaziJomaa(Tunisia) asVice-Chairmen and Samuel A.Mdee(United RepUblic ofTanzania) asRapporteur. Mr.Winston Thompson (Fiji) wasappointed Chairman oftheDrafting Committee andthefollowing participants served asmembers ofthatCommittee: Messrs. Wiryono Sastro Handoyo (Indonesia), Renagi Renagi Lohia(Papua NewGuinea), Robert F.VanLierop (Vanuatu), Horacio delValle(Chile), Milislav Paic(Yugoslavia), LelandBettis (Guarn), RockWamytan (NewCaledonia) andAbraham Baeanisia (Pacific Islands Association ofNon-Governmental Organizations). 10.TheSeminar considered thethemes recommended bytheGeneral Assembly inits resolution 44/100 (seeannex Itothepresent report). II.CONDUCT OFTHESEMINAR A.Proceedings ofthemeetings 11.TheSeminar wasopened on9May1990byMr.Tesfaye Tadesse, Permanent Representative ofEthiopia totheUnited Nations andChairman oftheSpecial Committee, whoserved asChairman oftheSeminar. Mr.Tadesse introduced thePrime Minister ofVanuatu whodelivered theopening address. 12.Father WaIter H.Lini,PrimeMinister ofVanuatu, delivered anaddress tothe Seminar atitsopening meeting. Inaccordance withadecision takenatthe Seminar, thatstatement isreproduced inextenso inannexIItothepresent report. 13.TheSeminar received messages fromtheSecretary-General oftheUnited Nations andtheChairman oftheSpecial Committee against Apartheid, whichwerereadoutby theChairman oftheSeminar atthemeetings. I ...AlAC.10911040 English Page4 14.Atitsfinalmeeting, on11May1990,theSeminar adopted byacclamation a finaldocument entitled "Stunmary ofdiscussions". Forfurther details see chapterIIIofthepresent report. 15.Inhisstatement, following theaddress ofthePrimeMinister, theChairman notedthatin1945thefounding members oftheUnitedNations hadconsidered that theendofcolonialism wasoneofthenecessary conditions foradurable peace. To thatend,theyhaddevoted threeentirechapters oftheCharter oftheUnited Nations tothequestion ofdependent Territories andhadrecognized thatthe interests oftheinhabitants ofthecolonial andNon-Self-Governing Territories wereparamount. Thosefounding members hadaccepted "asasacredtrust"the obligation topromote thepolitical, economic, social andeducational advancement ofthepeoples ofthoseTerritories, andthat that responsibility wouldremain unfulfilled untilthetotalelimination ofcolonialism hadbeenachieved. 16.Afteroutlining theeventsthathadledtotheestablishment oftheSpecial Committee in1961,aswellasthetaskscarried outbythatCommittee sinceits inception anditssignificant achievements inthefieldofdecolonization, the
**Analysis**
The text appears to be a report on a seminar discussing the decolonization of Non-Self-Governing Territories, which suggests that the topic is related to international relations, politics, and human rights. The language used is formal and diplomatic, indicating that the text is likely related to international organizations and organizations of governments. The themes discussed in the seminar, such as the promotion of political, economic, social, and educational advancement of the people of Non-Self-Governing Territories, also suggest that the topic is related to development and human rights.

**Category**
International relations, Humanitarian aid and relief