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6. Trusteeship Agreement for the Former Japanese Mandated Islands Approved at the One Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Meeting of the Security Council, April 2,1947.1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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WHEREAS Article 75 of the Charter of the United Nations provides for the establishment of an international trusteeship system for the administration and supervision of such territories as may be placed thereunder by subsequent agreements; and

WHEREAS under Article 77 of the said Charter the trusteeship system may be applied to territories now held under mandate; and

WHEREAS on 17 December 1920 the Council of the League of Nations confirmed a mandate for the former German islands north of the equator to Japan, to be administered in accordance with Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations; and

WHEREAS Japan, as a result of the Second World War, has ceased to exercise any authority in these islands;

NOW, THEREFORE, the Security Council of the United Nations, having satisfied itself that the relevant articles of the Charter have been complied with, hereby resolves to approve the following terms of trusteeship for the Pacific Islands formerly under mandate to Japan.

Type
Documents on International Organizations I. Documents on the United Nations
Information
International Organization , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , June 1948 , pp. 410 - 414
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1948

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1 Document S/318, April 2, 1947. The draft text of this agreement, as submitted originally by the United States, appears in International Organization, I, p. 219–22.