The Togoland Unification Problem and the Future of the Trust Territory of Togoland Under British Administration

A/RES/860(IX)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1955.

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7 subjects

Ghana Indigenous Peoples Political Status Self-Rule Special Missions Togo Togoland Under British Administration

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Decides, in view of the eventual revision or termination of the Trusteeship Agreement, that steps should be taken, in the light of the particular circumstances of the Trust Territory, to ascertain the wishes of the inhabitants as to their future, without prejudice to the eventual solution they may choose whether it be independence, unification of an independent Togoland under British administration with an independent Togoland under French administration, unification with an independent Gold Coast, or some other self-governing or independent status;

Requests the Trusteeship Council to take into account the views expressed in the Fourth Committee at the ninth and previous sessions of the General Assembly, to consider what arrangements should be made in pursuance of the above decision and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its tenth session ;

Further requests the Trusteeship Council to dispatch a special mission to the Trust Territories of Togoland under British administration and Togoland under French administration to make a special study of these problems and tc, submit its report thereon in time for the Council to report to the General Assembly at its tenth session;

Urges in the meanwhile that in the greater interests of the United Nations those directly concernei will lend their utmost co-operation in the full an early implementation of its recommendations containe in General Assembly resolution 750 B (VIII) of 8 December 1953.

14 December 1954.

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

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