UN International Trusteeship system

United Nations International Trusteeship system

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INTERNATIONAL TRUSTEESHIP SYSTEM
Article 75
The United Nations shall establish under its authority an international trusteeship system for
the administration and supervision of such territories as may be placed there under by
subsequent individual agreements. These territories are hereinafter referred to as trust
territories.
Article 76
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The basic objectives of the trusteeship system, in accordance with the Purposes of the United
Nations laid down in Article 1 of the present Charter, shall be:
a. to further international peace and security;
b. to promote the political, economic, social, and educational advancement of the inhabitants
of the trust territories, and their progressive development towards self-government or
independence as may be appropriate to the particular circumstances of each territory and its
peoples and the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned, and as may be provided by
the terms of each trusteeship agreement;
c. to encourage respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without
distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion, and to encourage recognition of the
interdependence of the peoples of the world; and
d. to ensure equal treatment in social, economic, and commercial matters for all Members of
the United Nations and their nationals, and also equal treatment for the latter in the
administration of justice, without prejudice to the attainment of the foregoing objectives and
subject to the provisions of Article 80.
Article 77
1. The trusteeship system shall apply to such territories in the following categories as
may be placed there under by means of trusteeship agreements:
a. territories now held under mandate;
b. territories which may be detached from enemy states as a result of the Second World
War; and
c. territories voluntarily placed under the system by states responsible for their
administration.
2. It will be a matter for subsequent agreement as to which territories in the foregoing
categories will be brought under the trusteeship system and upon what terms.
Article 78
The trusteeship system shall not apply to territories which have become Members of the
United Nations, relationship among which shall be based on respect for the principle of
sovereign equality.
Article 79
The terms of trusteeship for each territory to be placed under the trusteeship system, including
any alteration or amendment, shall be agreed upon by the states directly concerned, including
the mandatory power in the case of territories held under mandate by a Member of the United
Nations, and shall be approved as provided for in Articles 83 and 85.
Article 80
1. Except as may be agreed upon in individual trusteeship agreements, made under
Articles 77, 79, and 81, placing each territory under the trusteeship system, and until
such agreements have been concluded, nothing in this Chapter shall be construed in or
of itself to alter in any manner the rights whatsoever of any states or any peoples or the
terms of existing international instruments to which Members of the United Nations
may respectively be parties.
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2. Paragraph 1 of this Article shall not be interpreted as giving grounds for delay or
postponement of the negotiation and conclusion of agreements for placing mandated
and other territories under the trusteeship system as provided for in Article 77.
Article 81
The trusteeship agreement shall in each case include the terms under which the trust
territory will be administered and designate the authority which will exercise the
administration of the trust territory. Such authority, hereinafter called the administering
authority, may be one or more states or the Organization itself.
Article 82
There may be designated, in any trusteeship agreement, a strategic area or areas which
may include part or all of the trust territory to which the agreement applies, without
prejudice to any special agreement or agreements made under Article 43.
Article 83
1. All functions of the United Nations relating to strategic areas, including the
approval of the terms of the trusteeship agreements and of their alteration or
amendment shall be exercised by the Security Council.
2. The basic objectives set forth in Article 76 shall be applicable to the people of
each strategic area.
3. The Security Council shall, subject to the provisions of the trusteeship
agreements and without prejudice to security considerations, avail itself of the
assistance of the Trusteeship Council to perform those functions of the United
Nations under the trusteeship system relating to political, economic, social, and
educational matters in the strategic areas.
Article 84
It shall be the duty of the administering authority to ensure that the trust territory shall
play its part in the maintenance of international peace and security. To this end the
administering authority may make use of volunteer forces, facilities, and assistance
from the trust territory in carrying out the obligations towards the Security Council
undertaken in this regard by the administering authority, as well as for local defence
and the maintenance of law and order within the trust territory.
Article 85
4. The functions of the United Nations with regard to trusteeship agreements for
all areas not designated as strategic, including the approval of the terms of the
trusteeship agreements and of their alteration or amendment, shall be exercised
by the General Assembly.
5. The Trusteeship Council, operating under the authority of the General
Assembly shall assist the General Assembly in carrying out these functions.
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CHAPTER XIII
THE TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL
COMPOSITION
Article 86
1. The Trusteeship Council shall consist of the following Members of the United Nations:
a. those Members administering trust territories;
b. such of those Members mentioned by name in Article 23 as are not administering
trust territories; and
c. as many other Members elected for three-year terms by the General Assembly as
may be necessary to ensure that the total number of members of the Trusteeship
Council is equally divided between those Members of the United Nations which
administer trust territories and those which do not.
2. Each member of the Trusteeship Council shall designate one specially qualified person
to represent it therein.
FUNCTIONS and POWERS
Article 87
The General Assembly and, under its authority, the Trusteeship Council, in carrying out their
functions, may:
a. consider reports submitted by the administering authority;
b. accept petitions and examine them in consultation with the administering authority;
c. provide for periodic visits to the respective trust territories at times agreed upon with the
administering authority; and
d. take these and other actions in conformity with the terms of the trusteeship agreements.
Article 88
The Trusteeship Council shall formulate a questionnaire on the political, economic, social, and
educational advancement of the inhabitants of each trust territory, and the administering
authority for each trust territory within the competence of the General Assembly shall make an
annual report to the General Assembly upon the basis of such questionnaire.
VOTING
Article 89
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1. Each member of the Trusteeship Council shall have one vote.
2. Decisions of the Trusteeship Council shall be made by a majority of the members
present and voting.
PROCEDURE
Article 90
1. The Trusteeship Council shall adopt its own rules of procedure, including the method
of selecting its President.
2. The Trusteeship Council shall meet as required in accordance with its rules, which
shall include provision for the convening of meetings on the request of a majority of its
members.
Article 91
The Trusteeship Council shall, when appropriate, avail itself of the assistance of the Economic
and Social Council and of the specialized agencies in regard to matters with which they are
respectively concerned.

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