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arily in Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika.
When in 1955 Portugal became a member of the United Nations,
she v/as requested by this world organization to furnish information on the economic, social and educational development of her
colonial possessions of which Mozambique is one.  In response,
Portugal agrued that she had no non-self-governing territories,
and that Article 73e of the Charter, which stipulates that United
Nations members should furnish information on colonies under their
control, does not apply to her overseas possessions since they had
already been integrated into Portugal as provinces. • For a number
of years Portugal and her Western Allies were able to prevent a
two-thirds majority vote against her, until I960.  In that year
and in subsequent years the General Assembly passed resolutions
censuring Portugal for her colonial policies and urged her to submit information on conditions in those territories.
In 1961, the General Assembly set up two special committees,
one to investigate conditons in all remaining colonial territories
and another on territories "under Portuguese administration.  These
committees have reported to the General Assembly and their conclusions were,among others, that a) it is not through Portuguese
reforms that the political situation can be improved and the problems in the territory solved;  b) the economic, social and educational conditions of the majority of the African people of Mozambique cannot be adequately improved before the people themselves
take their destinies into their own hands;  c) while the political
leaders in the nationalist movements of the territory still hope
for a peaceful solution of the situation, Portugal, aided by her
NATO allies, continues to build up a strong militarv force to try
to prevent political action against herself;  and dj strongly
urged the General Assembly to adopt such appropriate measures as
would insure compliance by Portugal with the provisions of the
Charter applicable to colonial territories.
In 1962 and 1963, the United Nations again censured Portugal
for its colonial policies.  In late 1963, discussions exploring
the feasibility of negociations between Portugal and her African
colonies were held, but broke down when Portugal maintained adamantly that such discussions could not consider the question of
independence for her colonies.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The major statistical sources were:
1. Yearbook of International Trade Statistics, 1955-1960.
2. Annario Estatistico do Ultramar, 1958 and 1959.
3. Projecto de Piano do fomento para 1959-1964, especially pp. 262-7.
4. Relatorio Final Preparatorio de II Piano de Fomento, Vol. IX,
Ultramar, p. 109.
5. Annario Estatistico da Provincia de Moeambique 1954-1959.
6. Reparticao Technica de Estatistica.  Anuario Estatistico, 1950-
1955; 1958 and 1959; Impresa Naciaonal de Mozambique, Lourenco
Marques.
7. Report of the Special Committee on Territories "under Portuguese
Administration, United Nations, General Assembly, A/5160,
15 August 1962.
8. Report of the Special Committee on the Situation with Regard
to the Implementation of the Declaration on  the Granting of
Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, United Nations,
General Assembly, A/5446/Add.l, 19 July 1963.