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	United Nations Trust Territories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		United Nations Trust Territories were the successors of the League of Nations mandates and came into being when the League of Nations ceased to exist in 1946.
		Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (U.S.) - Split into The Republic of the Marshall Islands (1979), The Federated States of Micronesia (1979), The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (1978), and The Republic of Palau (1981).
		The main objection was that the trust territory guidelines required that the lands be prepared for independence and majority rule.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Nations_Trust_Territories (405 words)

	League of Nations Mandate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Upon the entry into force of the Charter of the United Nations in late 1945, the mandates of the League of Nations became United Nations Trust Territories, as agreed earlier in Yalta Conference.
		League of Nations mandates were territories established under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, 28 June 1919.
		All the territories subject to League of Nations mandates were previously controlled by states defeated in World War I, principally Imperial Germany and the Ottoman Empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/League_of_Nations_Mandate (603 words)

	Encyclopedia: UN Trusteeship Council
		United Nations Trust Territories were the successors of the League of Nations mandates and came into being when the League of Nations ceased to exist in 1946.
		The United Nations Trusteeship Council, one of the principal organs of the United Nations, was established to help ensure that non-self-governing territories were administered in the best interests of the inhabitants and of international peace and security.
		The trust territories - most of them former mandates of the League of Nations or territories taken from nations defeated at the end of World War II - have all now attained self-government or independence, either as separate nations or by joining neighboring independent countries.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/UN-Trusteeship-Council (1514 words)

	United Nations - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about United Nations
		The Trusteeship Council was responsible for overseeing the administration of UN trust territories, chiefly former German and Japanese colonies in the Pacific region.
		The United Nations Security Council votes on the question of Angola, 1995; the first UN peacekeeping troops were drafted to Angola in April of that year.
		General view of the first meeting of the United Nations Security Council.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /United+Nations (5393 words)

	UN_TC
		The United Nations Trusteeship Council, engendered at the 1945 UN San Francisco Conference, was mandated by the United Nations Charter to promote the political, economic and social advancement of the 11 original United Nations Trust Territories and their development towards self-government or independence.
		Trust Territories are those Non-Self-Governing Territories held under mandates established by the League of Nations after the First World War; Territories detached from enemy States as a result of the Second World War; and Territories voluntarily placed under the System by States responsible for their administration.
		Recently, the Special Committee on the Charter of the UN and on Strengthening the Role of the Organization was told that the United Nations Trusteeship Council should be abolished, as it had fulfilled its mandate2.
	www.geocities.com /myints/UN_TC.html (654 words)

	United Nations (Harpers.org)
		United Nations scientists found widespread traces of depleted uranium in Serbia and Montenegro and said that precautions should be taken to prevent stirring up the highly toxic material but nonetheless insisted that the population was safe.
		United Nations officials asked Ethiopia and Eritrea to please pick up their dead bodies, which were left over from a recent border war, because of the health risk to international peacekeepers.
		United Nations weapons inspectors began their work in Iraq; among the first installations to be inspected were Al Dawrah and Al Nasr, two factories that Tony Blair and George W. Bush, citing satellite photographs, had claimed were sites of renewed production of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.
	www.harpers.org /UnitedNations.html (4560 words)

	The Avalon Project : United Nations Charter; June 26, 1945
		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.
		There are established as the 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.
		The original Members of the United Nations shall be the states which, having participated in the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco, or having previously signed the Declaration by United Nations of 1 January 1942, sign the present Charter and ratify it in accordance with Article 110.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/un/unchart.htm (6732 words)

	Protectorate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some agencies of the United States government, such as the United States Environmental Protection Agency, use the term protectorate to refer to insular areas of the United States such as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as were the Philippines.
		The islands were constituted by the Treaty of Paris in 1815 as the independent 'United States of the Ionian Islands' under British protection.
		The League of Nations established League of Nations Mandates, similar to protectorates, for "responsible" European powers in various areas of the non-European world.
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Protectorate (396 words)

	Category:United Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		United Nations 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery
		The United Nations is a global organization of states.
		United Nations Association of the United States of America
	kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Category:United_Nations (204 words)

	ipedia.com: League of Nations Mandate Article
		League of Nations mandates were the prototype of, and similar to, United Nations Trust Territories, authorising major powers (originally the victors in World War I) to administer former German and Turkish territories subject to regular reporting as to the wellbeing of the populations concerned to the League of Nations, the predecessor to the United Nations.
		Upon the entry into force of the Charter of the United Nations in late 1945, all the League of Nations mandates were to become United Nations Trust Territories.
		League of Nations mandates were the prototype of, and similar to, United Nations Trust Territories, authorising major powers to administer former German and Turkish territories subject to regular repo...
	www.ipedia.com /league_of_nations_mandate.html (148 words)

	N.xml
		A convention, adopted by the United States and effective November 28 1980, that made changes (a) through (g), below, to the previously established rules governing tidal datums.
		of the U.S. National Ocean Service that provide the basic tidal datums for coastal boundaries and for chart datums of the United States of America.
		A navigation system that determines the distance, p-pp, of a mobile unit from a single, fixed station and the direction, p-rp, of the unit from each of a pair of fixed stations (one of which may be at the same point as the first, distance-determining station).
	www.ngs.noaa.gov /PUBS_LIB/GEOID/Droman_papers/glossary/xml/N.xml (2756 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Eweland
		1951: United Nations : TRUST TERRITORIES : Eweland.
		1950: United Nations : TRUST TERRITORIES : Eweland.
		For the first time in the history of international organization an overwhelming majority of member nations stood against a breach of peace and participated in joint...
	encarta.msn.com /Eweland.html (134 words)

	UN IN BRIEF
		The United Nations was established on 24 October 1945 by 51 countries committed to preserving peace through international cooperation and collective security.
		Together with the United Nations, they are known as the UN family, or the UN system.
		When States become Members of the United Nations, they agree to accept the obligations of the UN Charter, an international treaty that sets out basic principles of international relations.
	www.un.org /Overview/brief1.html (1299 words)

	Veronica M. Ahern: Nixon Peabody LLP
		Ahern has also especially concentrated in the representation of U.S. and United Nations Trust Territories.
		She was associate administrator for international affairs of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, where she represented the United States in various international conferences, particularly those having to do with the establishment of cable and satellite facilities.
		Ahern has represented a number of U.S. and non‑U.S. entities before various agencies of the United States government, including the Rural Utilities Service and the Federal Communications Commission, as well as before state and local regulatory bodies.
	www.nixonpeabody.com /attorneys_detail2.asp?ID=166 (251 words)

	Fact Sheet No.12, The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
		CERD is charged by the Convention to give opinions and make recommendations on petitions to United Nations bodies from individuals and groups in United Nations Trust Territories and Non-Self Governing Territories who allege racial discrimination.
		In addition, CERD works in co-operation with the United Nations Trusteeship Council and the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.
		The Third Committee (social, humanitarian and cultural questions) of the United Nations General Assembly decided to include the establishment of CERD in the Convention on the grounds that without the means of implementation, it would not be truly effective.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord1998/documentation/factsheets/fs12.htm (3378 words)

	OHCHR: English (English) - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
		Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
		Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in cooperation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,
		Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/eng.htm (1931 words)

	THE ROAD TO THE UNITARY STATE OF CAMEROON 1959-1972
		In 1922, these two spheres became mandates of the League of Nations and, after the Second World War, they became United Nations trust territories.
		May 1972, in a national referendum organized and conducted by the Cameroon National Union (CNU), by now the sole political party in the Republic, the overwhelming majority of the electors voted in favour of a unitary state which became the United Republic of Cameroon (URC) on the 2
		General Dobell proclaimed the partition of the territory into British and French spheres on the 17th of March 1916.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /Chilver/Paideuma/paideuma-Introdu.html (875 words)

	Priests of the Sacred Heart - Where We Work.
		Cameroon was divided into two United Nations trust territories, one under British, and the other under French administration.
		If I returned to my mission, it was solely to do the will Jesus Christ and to be united to the souls which he entrusted to me and for whom I am responsible before God.
		In 1958 France granted Cameroon autonomy for their internal affairs and two years later French Cameroon attained complete independence and become a member state of the United Nations.
	www.poshusa.org /missmart6.html (561 words)

	Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives
		For nearly forty years after the Second World War, the U.S. administered both islands as United Nations Trust Territories.
		Our former trust territories have emerged as sovereign democracies; America’s strategic interests in the Western Pacific have been protected; and the bonds of friendship forged during World War Two have only strengthened with the passage of time.
		The compact was intended to ensure self-government for the new island nations, to assist them in their economic development toward self-sufficiency and to advance mutual security objectives.
	wwwc.house.gov /international_relations/108/leach0718.htm (796 words)

	Changing administrations (from Pacific Islands) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Two United Nations trust territories were the first to achieve sovereignty as independent nations—Western Samoa (now Samoa) in 1962 and Nauru in 1968.
		The first continued to rely on New Zealand in foreign affairs, while Nauru ended its trusteeship ties with Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-54133?tocId=54133 (75 words)

	Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
		Considering the important role of the United Nations in assisting the movement for independence in Trust and Non- Self- Governing Territories,
		Any attempt aimed at the partial or total disruption of the national unity and the territorial integrity of a country is incompatible with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
		All States shall observe faithfully and strictly the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the present Declaration on the basis of equality, non-interference in the internal affairs of all States, and respect for the sovereign rights of all peoples and their territorial integrity.
	www.unhchr.ch /html/menu3/b/c_coloni.htm (523 words)

	Peace6.htm
		Furthermore the trusteeship system establishes the principle of equal treatment of the nationals of all the United Nations in trust territories.
		This brief review of the trusteeship system suggests how long a step away from old-fashioned imperialism the United Nations have taken in their dealings with the colonial peoples.
		In the first place, the Council must visit the nonstrategic trust territories periodically and review the acts and activities of the trustee (or colonial) power “on the spot.” Secondly, it may receive petitions directly from the peoples in the nonstrategic trust territories and examine them in consultation with the trustee power.
	www.historians.org /projects/giroundtable/Peace/Peace6.htm (1016 words)

	CBC News Indepth: United Nations
		The United Nations is not a world government and does not make laws.
		This body co-ordinates the economic and social work of the United Nations and the UN family of organizations.
		In January 1942, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first person to use the term "United Nations." Roosevelt helped create the "Declaration by United Nations" during the war when 26 nations pledged to continue fighting the Axis Powers (Germany, Japan, Italy and their allies).
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/un (886 words)

	Estero
		She was employed in logistics support of the administration of the United Nations Trust Territories, calling throughout the Marshalls, Carolines, and Marianas.
		The second Estero (AG-134) which originally served with the Army as FS-275, was acquired by the Navy in March 1947 and commissioned on 5 July, Lieutenant (junior grade) H. Toponce, in command.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/e5/estero-ii.htm (252 words)

	PV4U Hawaii Minutes, 4/18/94
		Inter-Island Solar of Honolulu reported on two recent shipments of PV lighting units to the Republic of Palau, in the western Pacific (formerly part of the United Nations Trust Territories of the Pacific).
		Sandia National Laboratory's recent request for quotation on the for PV demonstration projects was discussed.
		These units will be used for typhoon shelters and for lighting of remote fishing docks.
	www.state.hi.us /dbedt/ert/pv4u/pv4_9404.html (422 words)

	Central
		The arrangement was confirmed by the UN after WWII with both sections becoming United Nations trust territories.
		The nation's name was changed from the United Republic of Cameroon to the Republic of Cameroon.
		In 1971 left-wing extremist oppostion to the UNC was crushed and the federal system was abandoned with a new national assembly being elected in 1973.
	www.gaminggeeks.org /Resources/KateMonk/Africa/Central/Cameroon.htm (394 words)

	Ford Foundation: Crossing Borders - 015
		Palau, a former colony of Japan, and the last of the postwar United Nations Trust Territories to gain independence, is a place whose past and present provide a rich context for the study of how "local" and "global" structures and experiences overlap and interact.
		The project further seeks to reconfigure dominant conceptions of "Asia-Pacific" by overcoming a historic lack of attention to the islands of the Pacific in conventional "Asian and Pacific" area studies.
		The project brings together specialists on Palau, Japan, the Philippines, and Taiwan in instructional and research teams to develop models of pedagogy and scholarly inquiry that can respond both to the transnational and the local dimensions of the Palauan experience.
	www.fordfound.org /elibrary/documents/5025/015.cfm (358 words)

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - Politician says Micronesia selling its dignity for US dollars
		The Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands, former United Nations Trust Territories administered by Washington, are renegotiating their treaties with Washington.
		A veteran Pacific politician wants the people of the Federated States of Micronesia to walk away from a multi-billion dollar deal with the United States
		Senator Isaac Figir, a member of the FSM Congress for 18 years says to accept would be to sacrifice dignity for foreign domination.
	www.goasiapacific.com /news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_761705.htm (133 words)

	oct2003.txt
		NOAA's National Ocean Service maintains about 140 tide gauges within the United States, its territories, and the United Nations Trust Territories under its jurisdiction.
		The shape of the coastline and the topography of the ocean floor affect the timing and height of tides.
	www.cimms.ou.edu /~schultz/c-k/columns/oct2003.txt (131 words)

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