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United Nations Trusteeship Council
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United Nations Trusteeship Council: see trusteeship, territorial trusteeship, territorial, system of UN control for territories that were not self-governing. It replaced the mandates of the League of Nations. Provided for under chapters 12 and 13 of the Charter of the United Nations, the trusteeship system was intended to promote
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United Nations Trusteeship Council

One of the main organs of the UN, composed of the five permanent members of the Security Council. It supervised the administration of trust (non-self-governing) territories, including former colonies in Africa and the Pacific. The council's job was to send inspection missions to the territories, examine petitions, review reports, and make recommendations. It suspended operations after the last trust territory, Palau, gained its sovereignty in 1994.



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Hence Annan's call for a new, effective--and tyranny-free--Human Rights Council, possibly to replace the Trusteeship Council as a major organ of the U.
Intended insult or not, a U.N. Ambassador Bolton sure to further ... by Williams, Ian / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
When the United Nations itself was created, it allowed for the creation of an international trusteeship council under Chapter XII of the U.
Francis A. Boyle. Palestine, Palestinians and International Law by Talhami, Ghada / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
After all, one of the original institutions of the United Nations was its Trusteeship Council, toothless for most of its existence, and inactive since 1994, just as the point was reached when such an organ might be useful.
The Lesser Evil by Betts, Richard K. / The National Interest
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