Relations with the newly independent countries

Recommendation 265 (1960)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

Assembly debate on 22nd September 1960 (11th and 12th Sittings) (see Doc 1181Doc 1181, Report of the Political Committee). Text adopted by the Assembly on 29th September 1960 (20th Sitting).

1. The Assembly

2. Recommends that member Governments should use the Committee of Ministers in co-ordinating, in harmony with the United Nations, their policies on the question of their relations with the newly independent nations of the world in need of assistance.

3. Their action, in common, in this field should be based on the following principles :

a Member Governments should raise to the level of first importance their relations with and assistance to the newly independent and developing countries;

b They should understand and recognise the national aspirations of these peoples while pointing out to them the advantages and benefits of interdependence, mutual economic help and the community spirit;

c They should understand the desire of many newly independent States for non-alignment in the East-West controversies.