Organization and Methods of Functioning of Visiting Missions

A/RES/434(V)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1951.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1951–1952

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/553(VI)

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1952	A/RES/553(VI)	Organization and methods of functioning of visiting missions	415	14%Compare
1951	A/RES/434(V)	Organization and methods of functioning of visiting missions	453	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Indigenous Peoples Petitions Recommendations Terms of Reference Trust Territories Visiting Missions

What’s in this document?

4 operative paragraphs

Recommends accordingly that the Trusteeship Council should undertake another such review in order to ensure that the most effective use will be made in future of this important function of the General Assembly and of the Council, taking into consideration for that purpose the observations and suggestions made during the discussion of this matter at the fifth session of the General Assembly and taking into account the advisability of:

Arranging for visiting missions to remain long enough in each Trust Territory to be able adequately to fulfil their task ;

( b) Reducing the number of Trust Territories to be visited by a single visiting mission ;

( c) Ensuring the greatest possible flexibility in the itinerary of each visiting mission ;

( d) Extending the duration of visits without diminishing their frequency ;

( e) Continuing to include in the terms of reference of each visiting mission the examination of specific problems;

Continuing to include in the terms of reference of each visiting mission the preliminary examination on the spot, when called for, of the petitions submitted to it, and of such other petitions as the Trusteeship Council may deem appropriate;

Selecting members of each visiting mission as much as possible from among representatives who sit on the Trusteeship Council ;

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I h) Directing visiting missions to take advantage oi every opportunity to inform the indigenous inh.abitanh nf the workings and operations of the Internat10nal Trusteeship System;

.2. Rcq11csts the Trusteeship Council to include the results of the review in its next report to the General Assembly.

2 December 1950.

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