United Nations Trust Territories
Trust territories were former mandated territories of the League, after dissolution of the League of Nations in 1946 by the United Nations (UN ) Trust powers were handed over to the fiduciary manager.
In addition to safeguarding world peace the trusteeship system should serve (Chapter XII), especially in promoting this most underdeveloped areas and their gradual development to end their independence, according to the Charter of the United Nations. This process was monitored by the UN Trusteeship Council of the United Nations, one of its six organs, made up of the five permanent members of the Security Council.
The Trusteeship Council was suspended on 1 November 1994, as he had set his work before, after and in 1994 the last Trust Territory ( Palau ) was granted independence.
The trusteeship system of the United Nations comprised a total of eleven trust territories. By 1994 all of a neighboring independent state had joined or been granted independence:
- The former Italian colony of Libya, since 1947, run by France and the United Kingdom trust territory became the independent Kingdom of January 1, 1952
- British Togoland was combined in 1957 with the Gold Coast to Ghana, the 1959 UN member was.
- French Togoland was awarded in 1960 as Togo 's independence.
- French Cameroon in 1960 was awarded as Cameroon 's independence. A year later joined the South British Cameroon, while integrated the northern British managed in Nigeria.
- The Italian Trust Territory of Somalia, took over the trusteeship for Italy, 1960 united with the former colony of British Somaliland to Somalia.
- Ruanda- Urundi, with Belgium as a fiduciary power in 1962 was divided into the independent states of Rwanda and Burundi.
- The managed from Australia eastern part of New Guinea became independent in 1975 as Papua New Guinea.
- From the oceanic islands of Samoa in 1962, Nauru became independent in 1968.
- Recently dismissed the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands her to independence (1990 Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, 1994 ).
- South West Africa was under international law until 1990 when Namibia independent, although the UN South Africa in 1966 had deprived the yet issued by the League mandate over the former German South West Africa.