UN General Assembly
1960

38. Resolution No. 4, adopted by the Round Table Conference and concerning the competence of the first Government of the Congo, states that as from 30 June 1960 that Government is to succeed the Belgian Government and thus exercise on behalf of the Congolese people all the powers previously reserved to the Belgian Government. 39. The principal powers include foreign relations, the army and the national police force, national finances, customs, higher education, shipping, river, traffic and air traffic, the security of the State and general economic policy. At the provincial level, in accordance with a policy of administrative decentralization, each of the six provinces has a provincial council and a provincial government. Provincial powers are exercised only within the indivisible and unitary framework of the State, represented and directed by the Central Government of the Republic of the Congo.