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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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In 1956, for instance, the UN held a plebiscite to determine the future of the UN Trusteeship over what was then called Trans-Volta Togo-land, a strip of land wedged between soon-to-be-independent Ghana and the French colony of Togo.
Oh! That this should happen to Kenya by Duodu, Cameron / New African
See also Paul Kennedy, UN Trusteeship Council Could Finally Find a Role in Postwar Iraq, DAILY YOMIURI (Japan), May 9, 2003, available at http://www.
Neotrusteeship or mistrusteeship? the "authority creep" dilemma in ... by Ford, Christian Eric; Oppenheim, Ben A. / Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Three possible ways to create a compulsory dispute mechanism are reviewed: creating a World Environment Court (WEC), revamping the UN Trusteeship Council, and expanding the mandate of the UN Security Council.
Reforming International Environmental Governance: From Institutional ... by Martinez, Sierra / Stanford Journal of International Law
 
 
 
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