Attainment by Trust Territories of the Objective of Self-Government or Independence

A/RES/858(IX)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1955.

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Independence Indigenous Peoples Political Participation Representative Government Self-Rule Trust Territories Visiting Missions

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

N ates with satisfaction that, in response to the request of the General Assembly, the Trusteeship Council has included in its report covering the period from 22 July 1953 to 16 July 1954 a separate section16 dealing with the attainmerit by the Trust Territories of the objective of self-government or independence;

N ates, however, that the Council has not formulated in this report any conclusions or recommendations on the measures taken or contemplated towards self-government or independence ;

Expresses the hope that the Council will include its conclusions and recommendations on this question in its next and succeeding reports to the General Assembly ;

Recommends that the Council instruct its visiting missions to give special attention in their reports to the Council to the question of attainment by the Trust Territories of self-government or independence in the light of resolutions 558 (VI) and 752 (VIII) and of the present resolution;

Recommends to the Administering Authorities that, as a means to facilitate an approximate determination of the date on which the populations of the Trust Territories would be prepared for self-government or independence, they should intensify their efforts to the utmost to bring about the establishment of new representative organs of government and administration

1s Ibid., p. 279 et seqq.

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in the Trust Territories, with increasing participation therein by :ndigenous elements of those Territories, or to develop on the same basis organs of that type already in existence ; that they should ensure that the nature and_ powers of these organs reflect the special status conferred on the Trust Territories by Chapter XII of fhe Charter and by the Trusteeship Agreements; and that they should hasten the attainment of the objectives set forth in Article 76 of the Charter,

14 December 1954.

ELECTION OF A MEMBER TO THE COMMITTEE OF IN- FORMATION FROM NoN-SELF-GoVERNJNG TERRITORIES

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