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Trusteeship Council

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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From June 16 to July 21, 1953, at United Nations headquarters, the Trusteeship Council convened in its twelfth session. At the opening meeting Leslie K. Munro (New Zealand) was elected president and Miguel R. Urquia (El Salvador) vice-president. After a United States proposal to postpone discussion for the duration of the session of a Soviet resolution to invite a representative of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China to participate in the work of the session was adopted by 10 votes to 1 with 1 abstention, the Council adopted an agenda of eighteen items. The greater part of the session was devoted to the examination of annual reports on the administration of the trust territories of Somaliland under Italian administration, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Nauru, New Guinea, and Western Samoa. The reports submitted by the administering authorities on the Pacific trust territories were considered in conjunction with the reports on these territories submitted by the Visiting Mission to Trust Territories in the Pacific, 1953, which visited the area from February to May, the Council incorporating many of the mission's findings in its own conclusions. Also before the Council were observations submitted by UNESCO on all these annual reports except that on the administration of Western Samoa for the year ending December 31, 1952. After a French proposal to hold the next regular session of the Council in January 1954, in Geneva was rejected with successive tie votes of 5 in favor, 5 against and 2 abstentions, the Council adopted, by a vote of 7 to 4 with 1 abstention, a Belgian proposal that the General Assembly be asked to reconsider its previous decision on meeting schedules, to provide for alternate summer sessions in Geneva of the Trusteeship Council and the Economic and Social Council.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: I. United Nations
Information
International Organization , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , November 1953 , pp. 541 - 552
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1953

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References

1 Trusteeship Council, Official Records (12th session), p. 1, 2; Document T/1060, June 19, 1953.

2 For summary of the visiting mission's reports on Nauru and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see International Organization, VII, p. 402. s Document T/1062, June 17, 1953, and Add.l.

3 Document T/1062, June 17, 1953, and Add.1

4 Rapport du Gouvemement italien a VAssemblie generate des Nations Unies sur I'administration de tutelle de la Somalie, 1952, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome, 1953.Google Scholar

5 Document T/1048, April 28, 1953. For summary of this report, see International Organization, VII, p. 404.

6 Document ST/TAA/K/Somaliland/1, November 2, 1952.

7 Document T/1061, June 16, 1953, and Add.l.

8 Trusteeship Council, Official Records (12th session), p. 9.

9 See Document A/2150, September 1952, p. 118, 136.

10 Trusteeship Council, Official Records (12th session), p. 243.

11 Document A/2427, September 1953, p.46.

12 For summary of the visiting mission's report, see International Organixation, VII, p. 402.

13 Document S/3066, July 24, 1953, p. 9.

14 Documents T/1046, March 16, 1953; T/1054, May 26, 1953; and T/1062, June 17, 1953. For summary of the visiting mission's report on Nauru, see International Organizaturn, VII, p. 402.

15 Trusteeship Council, Official Records (12th session), p. 148.

16 Document A/2427, September 1953, p. 112.

17 Trusteeship Council, Official Records ( 12t h session), p. 176.

18 Ibid., p. 217.

20 Document A/2427, September 1953, p. 3, 85, 87.

21 Trusteeship Council, Official Records (12th session), p. 253.

21 Ibid.

22 Ibid., p. 254.

23 Document A/2427, September 1953, p. 64.

24 In accordance with the decision made during the Council's eleventh session, the Dominican Republic replaced China in the committee on June 16.

25 Document T/L.337, June 12, 1953.

26 Document T/L.391, July 17, 1953.

27 Documents T/L.375, July 10, 1953; and T/L.392, July 17, 1953.

28 Document T/1075, August 18, 1953, p. 151.

29 Document S/3066, July 24, 1953, p. 4.

30 Document T/1075, August 18, 1953, p. 2. For information on the resolution on adminis trative unions of the seventh session of the Assembly, see International Organization, VII, p. 104.

30a Documents T/L.388, July 16, 1953; and A/2427, September 1953, p. 36.

31 Document T/1072, July 16, 1953.

32 By its resolution 652 (VII) of December 20, 1952, the Assembly recommended that the two administering authorities concerned make every effort to bring about reestablishment of the Joint Council for Togoland Affairs, on a basis which would enlist cooperation from all major segments of the population; for more information on this resolution and its adoption by the Assembly, see International Organixation, VII, p. 103. Document T/1067/Rev.l, July 10, 1953.

33 Document A/2424, July 22, 1953.

34 For information on the General Assembly resolution, see International Organization, VII, p. 101; for information on the Trusteeship Council resolution, see ibid., VI, p. 616.

35 Document T/1075, August 18, 1953, p. 3.

36 Documents T/1073, July 16, 1953; and A/2427, September 1953, p. 37.

37 Document T/1065, July 3, 1953, and Add.l and 2.

38 Document T/1075, August 18, 1953, p. 2.