The United States accepted the role of Trustee of this, the only United Nations Trusteeship to be designated as a " Security Trusteeship ", whose ultimate disposition was to be determined by the UN Security Council.

The independence procedure was formally completed under international law in 1990, when the UN officially ended the Trusteeship status.

The United Nations Trusteeship Council ( French Le Conseil de tutelle des Nations unies ), one of the principal organs of the United Nations, was established to help ensure that trust territories were administered in the best interests of their inhabitants and of international peace and security.

The Trusteeship Council was formed in 1945 to oversee the decolonization of those dependent territories that were to be placed under the international trusteeship system created by the United Nations Charter as a successor to the League of Nations mandate system.

Under the Charter, the Trusteeship Council was to consist of an equal number of United Nations Member States administering trust territories and non-administering states.

Over time, as trust territories attained independence, the size and workload of the Trusteeship Council was reduced and ultimately came to include only the five permanent Security Council members ( China, France, the Soviet Union / Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States ).

The Trusteeship Council was not assigned responsibility for colonial territories outside the trusteeship system, although the Charter did establish the principle that member states were to administer such territories in conformity with the best interests of their inhabitants.

With the creation of the United Nations, the Union applied for the incorporation of South-West Africa, but its application was rejected by the U. N., which invited South Africa to prepare a Trusteeship agreement instead.

Following World War II, the League of Nations was dissolved in April 1946 and its successor, the United Nations, instituted a Trusteeship system to bring all of the former German colonies in Africa under UN control.

The Trusteeship Council was to administer Palestine for ten years.

The Trusteeship Council decided on 10 March 1948 in resolution 32 ( II ) " that the statute on Jerusalem was in satisfactory form and agrees that the question of its formal approval, together with the appointment of a governor of the city, shall be taken up at a subsequent meeting to be held not later than one week before 29 April 1948 ", the deadline given to the Council by the Assembly ( on 21 April 1948, the Trusteeship Council transmitted The Resolution Along With The Draft Statute To The General Assembly ).

The General Assembly then convened for its second special session between 16 April to 14 May 1948, during which it considers a working paper submitted by the United States ( U. S .) on the question of the " Trusteeship of Palestine ", which was opposed by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( U. S. S. R .) as well as the Jewish Agency.

The United Nations Trusteeship Council, one of the principal organs of the United Nations, was established to help ensure that trust territories were administered in the best interests of their inhabitants and of international peace and security.

Trusteeship was transferred to the organization in October 1953 where it remains today.

A dispute over the " Trusteeship Chapter " in the proposed UN Charter was averted by the change in General Romulo, attributed to MRA.

The company would continue to operate in Receivership until 1946 when the bankruptcy was converted to a Trusteeship.

Italian Somaliland was returned to Italy in 1949 as a UN Trusteeship and soon switched to the Italian Somaliland somalo, which was at par with the shilling.

The third option, independence, was opposed by the UK representative to the UN Trusteeship Council, Sir Andrew Cohen, and as a result was not put.

When the League of Nations was dissolved with World War II and replaced by the United Nations in 1945, Pretoria refused to recognise the new Trusteeship Council for mandates.

Trusteeship of the islands ended under United Nations Security Council Resolution 683, passed on December 22, 1990.

In the Report of the Committee dated 3 September 1947 to the UN General Assembly, the majority of the Committee in Chapter VI proposed a plan to replace the British Mandate with " an independent Arab State, an independent Jewish State, and the City of Jerusalem " ..., the last to be under " an International Trusteeship System ".

The administration of the Territory continued to be carried out under the terms of the mandate until its transfer to the Trusteeship System under the Charter of the United Nations by the Trusteeship Agreement of December 13, 1946.

In March 1948, the United States proposed that the territory of Mandatory Palestine be placed under UN Trusteeship with the termination of the British Mandate in May 1948 ( see American trusteeship proposal for Palestine ).

Its mission fulfilled, the Trusteeship Council suspended its operation on 1 November 1994, and although under the United Nations Charter it continues to exist on paper, its future role and even existence remains uncertain.

It called for the creation of Arab and Jewish states no later than 1 October 1948, with Jerusalem as corpus separatum under an international regime to be administered by the U. N. with the Trusteeship Council being the designated body in this regard.

* October 21, 1986: The Marshall Islands achieved independence from U. S .- administered UN Trusteeship and became an associated state under the Compact of Free Association.

* November 3, 1986: The Federated States of Micronesia achieved independence from U. S .- administered UN Trusteeship and became an associated state under the Compact of Free Association.

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Following Japan's defeat in the Second World War, its mandate became a United Nations Trusteeship, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, ruled by the United States.

Map of the world in 1945, showing United Nations Trusteeship Council territories in green

It is also thought that if formal independence were declared, Taiwan's foreign policies would lean further towards Japan and the United States and the desirable option of United Nations Trusteeship Council is also considered.

It also elects members of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and some members of the United Nations Trusteeship Council.

Present status of the United Nations Trusteeship Council is temporarily inactive because there is no request to resume the designated activities of the United Nations Trusteeship Council.

# There are established as principal organs of the United Nations: a General Assembly, a Security Council, an Economic and Social Council, a Trusteeship Council, an International Court of Justice and a Secretariat.

Responsibilities of the Secretary-General are further outlined in Articles 98-100, which states that he shall act as the officer in " in all meetings of the General Assembly, of the Security Council, of the Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council, and shall perform other functions as are entrusted to him by these organs.

With the independence of Palau, formerly part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, in 1994, there presently are no trust territories, leaving the Trusteeship Council without responsibilities.

The Trusteeship Council is currently () headed by Michel Duclos, with Adam Thomson as vice-president, although the sole current duty of these officers is to meet with the heads of other UN agencies on occasion.

The formal elimination of the Trusteeship Council would require the revision of the UN Charter, which is why it has not been pursued.

Other functions for the Trusteeship Council have been considered.

As this restructuring would involve significant changes to the UN charter, Annan proposed the complete elimination of the Trusteeship Council as part of these reforms.

* Homepage of the UN Trusteeship Council

All of the trust territories were administered through the UN Trusteeship Council.