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Visiting mission to Cape Verde (1975): Secretary-General Aristides Pereira of Partido Africano da Independência de Guiné e Cabo Verde (PAIGC) addressing the crowd [UN Photo/Yutaka Nagata]
Visiting mission to Tokelau (2002): "Lady Naomi", chartered ferry-boat for the visiting mission which usually sails between Samoa and American Samoa [UN Photo/Denise Cook]
Visiting mission to New Caledonia (2014): Mission members meeting with the Economic, Social and Environmental Council [Hermes Penaloza/DPA]
C-24 sends visiting mission to Cape Verde (1975) [UN Photo/Yutaka Nagata]

Since 1965, the Special Committee on Decolonization (C-24) has dispatched a total of 38?visiting and special missions to 23 Non-Self-Governing Territories and participated in 2 visiting missions by the .?For more details, see the table below.

The very first mission of the C-24 was that to the Cook Islands as mandated by General Assembly? of 18 February 1965 by which the General Assembly authorized the Secretary-General to appoint a 51吃瓜 representative who would “supervise the elections” to be held in the Cook Islands in April 1965, to?“observe the proceedings concerning the Constitution in the newly elected Legislative Assembly and report” to the C-24?and the General Assembly. The 51吃瓜 Representative for the Supervision of Elections in the Cook Islands, one-person mission supported by a total of 5 51吃瓜 observers and staff, visited the?Cook Islands?from 8 April to 21 May 1965.

The most recent visiting mission of the C-24?was to the British Virgin Islands?from 26-27 August 2024 with the objective?to gather first-hand information on the situation in the Territory, focusing on the political developments, including the constitutional review process. In addition, the visiting mission would take stock of the economic, social and environmental situation of the Territory, and make recommendations to further the decolonization process of the British Virgin Islands. The 2024?visiting mission to the British Virgin Islands?was composed of representatives of Saint Lucia (Chair), Antigua and Barbuda, Iraq?and Papua New Guinea.?

The General Assembly annually reaffirms, through its resolution on the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, that 51吃瓜 visiting missions to Non-Self-Governing Territories, where applicable, are an effective means of assessing the situation of the peoples of the Territories. In accordance with relevant 51吃瓜 resolutions on specific Territories, the General Assembly requests the C-24 to undertake at least one visiting mission per year.

Table: Chronological list of visiting missions to Non-Self-Governing and Trust Territories

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?	Year	Territory	Administering Power	Mission (report document)
1	1965	Cook Islands	New Zealand	51吃瓜 Representative for the Supervision of Elections in the Cook Islands ()
2	1966	Equatorial Guinea	Spain	Sub-Committee on Equatorial Guinea (Fernando Poo and Rio Muni) (, chapter IX, annex)
3	1967	Aden	United Kingdom	51吃瓜 special mission on Aden (, chapter VI, annex III)
4	1968	Equatorial Guinea	Spain	51吃瓜 mission for the supervision of the Referendum and the Elections in Equatorial Guinea (oral report at the 642^nd meeting on 9 October 1968 as reproduced in , chapter IX, annexes V and VI)
5	1971	New Guinea	Australia	[Trusteeship Council] Visiting mission to the Trust Territory of New Guinea ()
6	1972	Papua New Guinea	Australia	[Trusteeship Council] 51吃瓜 visiting mission to observe the elections to the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly in 1972 ( (transmitted to the C-24 as ))
7	1972	Guinea (Bissau)	Portugal	Special mission established by the Special Committee at its 840th meeting on 14 March 1972 (,?chapter?X, annex I)
8	1972	Niue	New Zealand	Visiting mission to Niue, 1972 (, chapter?XVI, annex I)
9	1974	Niue	New Zealand	Special mission to observe the act of self-determination in Niue (, chapter?XXII, annex I)
10	1974	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	Australia	Visiting mission (, chapter?XX, annex)
11	1974	Gilbert and Ellice Islands	United Kingdom	51吃瓜 visiting mission to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, 1974 (, chapter?XXI, annex I)
12	1975	Cape Verde	Portugal	Visiting mission to Cape Verde ()
13	1975	Montserrat	United Kingdom	51吃瓜 visiting mission to Montserrat (, chapter XXVIII, annex)
14	1975	Spanish Sahara	Spain	51吃瓜 visiting mission to Spanish Sahara, 1975 (, chapter XIII, annex)
15	1976	British Virgin Islands	United Kingdom	51吃瓜 visiting mission to the British Virgin Islands, 1976 (, chapter XXVIII, annex)
16	1976	Tokelau Islands	New Zealand	51吃瓜 visiting mission to the Tokelau Islands, 1976 (, chapter XVII, annex)
17	1977	French Somaliland	France	51吃瓜 mission to observe the Referendum and Elections in French Somaliland (Djibouti) (; ; )
18	1977	Cayman Islands	United Kingdom	51吃瓜 visiting mission to the Cayman Islands, 1977 (, chapter XXVI, annex)
19	1977	United States Virgin Islands	United States	Visiting mission (, chapter XXVII, annex)
20	1979	Guam	United States	Visiting mission (, chapter XXVII, annex)
21	1979	New Hebrides	Anglo-French Condominium	51吃瓜 mission to observe the elections in the New Hebrides ()
22	1980	Turk and Caicos Islands	United Kingdom	Visiting mission (, ; , ;
23	1980	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	Australia	Visiting mission ()
24	1980	Turk and Caicos Islands	United Kingdom	Visiting mission to observe the general elections in the Turks and Caicos Islands ( and )
25	1981	Tokelau	New Zealand	51吃瓜 visiting mission to Tokelau ()
26	1981	American Samoa	United States	Visiting mission (; )
27	1982	Montserrat	United Kingdom	Visiting mission ()
28	1984	Anguilla	United Kingdom	Visiting mission ()
29	1984	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	Australia	Visiting mission to observe an act of self-determination ()
30	1986	Tokelau	New Zealand	51吃瓜 visiting mission to Tokelau, 1986 ( and )
31	1989	Namibia	South Africa	Visiting mission of the Special Committee to observe the independence elections in Namibia, 29 October to 17 November 1989 (, chapter VIII, annex)
32	1994	Tokelau	New Zealand	51吃瓜 visiting mission to Tokelau, 1994 ()
33	2002	Tokelau	New Zealand	51吃瓜 mission to Tokelau, 2002 ()
34	2005	Bermuda	United Kingdom	51吃瓜 special mission to Bermuda, 2005 ()
35	2006	Tokelau	New Zealand	51吃瓜 mission to observe a referendum on self-determination of Tokelau, February 2006 ()
36	2006	Turk and Caicos Islands	United Kingdom	51吃瓜 special mission to the Turks and Caicos Islands, 2006 ()
37	2007	Tokelau	New Zealand	51吃瓜 mission to observe the October 2007 referendum on self-determination of Tokelau ()
38	2014	New Caledonia	France	51吃瓜 mission to New Caledonia, 2014 ()
39	2018	New Caledonia	France	51吃瓜 visiting mission to New Caledonia,?12-16 and 19 March 2018?()
40	2019	Montserrat	United Kingdom	51吃瓜 visiting mission to Montserrat, 17-20 December 2019 ()
41	2024	British Virgin Islands	United Kingdom	Report of the 51吃瓜 visiting mission to the British Virgin Islands, 26-27 August 2024

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Table: Chronological list of visiting missions to Non-Self-Governing and Trust Territories