relatil'\g totheorganization ofitsworkputforward bytheChairman (A!AC.I09/L.1385 andCorr.l), theSpecial Committee decided totakeupthequestion ofsending visiting missions toTerritories asaseparate item.TheSpecial Committee further decided thattheitemshouldbeconsidered atitsplenary meetings and,asappropriate, byitsSub-Committee onSmallTerritories in connexion withitsexamination ofspecific Territories. I 2.TheSpecial Committee considered theitematits1184thand1188thmeetings, on21January and4August. 3.Duringitsconsideration oftheitem,theSpecial Committee tookintoaccount theprovisions ofrelevant General Assembly resolutions, including inparticular resolution 35/119of11December 1980ontheImplementation oftheDeclaration on theGranting ofIndependence toCOlonial Countries andPeoples. Byparagraph 13of thatresolution, theAssembly calledupontheadministering Powers"tocontinue to co-operate withtheSpecial Committee inthedischarge ofitsmandate and,in particular, topermittheaccessofVisiting missions totheTerritories [under theiradministration] tosecurefirst-hand information andascertain thewishesand aspirations oftheirinhabitants". Inaddition, theCommittee paiddueregardto therelevant provisions ofGeneral Assembly resolutions 35/21,35/22,35/23,35/24 and35/25of11November 1980,relating respectively toBermuda, theBritish Virgin Islands, theCAymanIslands andMontserrat, Guam,American Samoa,theUnitedStates VirginIslands andtheTurksandcaicosIslands, andGeneral Assembly decisions 35/407, 35/408and35/409ofthesamedaterelating respectively totheCocos (Reeling) Islands, TOkelau andSt.Helena. FUrther, theSpecial Committee took intoaccount therelevant provisions ofGeneral Assembly resolution 35/118of 11December 1980containing thePlanofActionfortheFUllImplementation ofthe Declaration ontheGranting ofIndependence toColonial Countries andPeoples. By paragraph 17Cc)ofthePlanofAction, theGeneral Assembly directed theSpecial Committee "tocontinue tosendvisiting missions tothecolonial Territories at periodic intervals inordertoenabletheSpecial Committee toobtainfirst--hand information onconditions inthoseTerritories". 4.Initsconsideration oftheitem,theSpecial Committee hadbeforeit thereportofitsChairman (seeannextothepresent chapter) onhisconsultations withrepresentatives oftheadministering Powers, undertaken inaccordance with paragraph 3oftheresolution adopted bytheCommittee atits1168thmeeting on 5August1980.!I *Previously iss~edaspartofA/36/23 (Part11). !I9fficial RecordsoftheGeneral Assembly, Thirty-fifth Session, Supplemen~ No.23(A!35/23/Rev.l), chap.Ill,para.11. -78-s.Asrefle Committee dis andtheother fromtheadmi theUnitedSt 6.Statemen ll84thmeetin andPV.ll88). 7.Atthe1 resolution on (AlAC.l09/L.l resolution wi 8.015Aug representativ respective Go 9.Inadditi Special Commit considering th provisions of paragraph 3 a totheitem. 10.Subsequen Territories as Territories COl recommendatiom Territories, a~5.Asreflected intherelevant chapters ofthepresent report, theSpecialCommittee dispatched twovisiting missions duringtheyear,onetoTbkelau inJuneandtheothertoAmerican SamoainJuly,inre~ponse totheinvitations receivedfromtheadministering Powersconcerned, namely, ~~eGovernments ofNewZealand and theUnitedStatesofAmerica, respectively. 6.Statements relating totheitemweremadebytheChairman atthe1184thmeeting on21January andthe1188thmeeting on4August (A/AC.I09/PV.ll84andPV.1188). 7.Atthe11~8thmeeting, on4August, theChairman drewattention toadraftresolution ontheitemprepared byhimonthebasisofconsultations(A/AC.I09/L.1398). Atthesamemeeting, theSpecial Committee adopted thedraftresolution without objection (seepara.11below). 8.On5August, thetextoftheresolution (A/AC.I09/668) wastransmitted tothe representatives oftheadministering Powersconcerned fortheattention oftheirrespective Governments.