Resolution adopted by the General Assembly  [on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee  (Fourth Committee) (A/57/524)]  57/131. Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories  transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the  United Nations        The General Assembly,    Having examined the chapter of the 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 relating to the information from  Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the  United Nations1 and the action taken by the Special Committee in respect of that  information,    Having also examined the report of the Secretary-General,2    Recalling its resolution 1970 (XVIII) of 16 December 1963, in which it  requested the Special Committee to study the information transmitted to the  Secretary-General in accordance with Article 73 e of the Charter of the United  Nations and to take such information fully into account in examining the situation  with regard to the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of  Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, contained in General Assembly  resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960,    Recalling also its resolution 56/65 of 10 December 2001, in which it requested  the Special Committee to continue to discharge the functions entrusted to it under  resolution 1970 (XVIII),    Stressing the importance of timely transmission by the administering Powers  of adequate information under Article 73 e of the Charter, in particular in relation to  the preparation by the Secretariat of the working papers on the Territories  concerned,    1.  Reaffirms that, in the absence of a decision by the General Assembly  itself that a Non-Self-Governing Territory has attained a full measure of self- _______________  1 A/57/23 (Part II), chap. VIII. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty- seventh Session, Supplement No. 23.  2 A/57/74.   A/RES/57/131  2  government in terms of Chapter XI of the Charter of the United Nations, the  administering Power concerned should continue to transmit information under  Article 73 e of the Charter with respect to that Territory;    2.  Requests the administering Powers concerned to transmit or continue to  transmit to the Secretary-General the information prescribed in Article 73 e of the  Charter, as well as the fullest possible information on political and constitutional  developments in the Territories concerned, within a maximum period of six months  following the expiration of the administrative year in those Territories;    3.  Requests the Secretary-General to continue to ensure that adequate  information is drawn from all available published sources in connection with the  preparation of the working papers relating to the Territories concerned;    4.  Requests the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the  Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial  Countries and Peoples to continue to discharge the functions entrusted to it under  General Assembly resolution 1970 (XVIII), in accordance with established  procedures.