Administering Authority

Administering Authority

(1) The authority designated by a trusteeship agreement as being

responsible for the administration of a U.N. trust territory , and which, under art. 81 of the

Charter, 'may be one or more States or the Organization itself'. Italy (in respect of Somalia,

1950 – 1960 ) was the only administering authority not to have been at the relevant time a

member of the United Nations. There are no administering authorities, the last remaining

trust territory having achieved independence (as Palau) in 1994 . See Trusteeship

System . (2) The member of the United Nations with responsibilities for the administration of territories whose peoples have not yet attained a full measure of self-government is also

sometimes referred to as the administering authority (or State, or power) in relation to

such territories. See Chap. XI of the U.N. Charter, titled 'Declaration Regarding Non-Self-

Governing Territories'.[1]

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Notes

1. The entry “administering authority” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press