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Like the Permanent Mandates Commission which was constituted to advise the League Council on all maters relating to the observance of the Mandates, the Trusteeship Council operates under the authority of the General Assembly and the Security Council in carrying out all functions relating to the non-strategic and strategic Trust Territories. Both may be regarded as the pivot of international supervision over the Mandated or Trust administration. The Trusteeship Council, though theoretically it enjoys the status of one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (Art. 7), functions, practically, like the Commission which was a subsidiary body to the League Council, as an auxiliary organ to the General Assembly and the Security Council. Unlike the Constitution of the Mandates Commission which could be altered or amended by the League Council, the provisions of the Charter concerning the Trusteeship Council cannot be changed without an amendment of the Charter itself. In spite of some striking similarities in their spheres of actions, the Trusteeship Council represents a radical departure from the composition and functions of the Mandates Commission.
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This discussion is taken from The Informal Minutes of Preliminary Consultations on Trusteeship by Representatives of the Five Powers, Third Meeting, cited by Liu Chieh, Visiting Missions, International Conciliation, No. 448, February 1949, p. 110.
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Ibid.
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Ibid., p. 216.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 217.
Ibid.
Ibid.
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Before 18 July 1947, the United States was a non-Administering member of the Trusteeship Council and the Mission.
Out of 31 members only five were not represented on the Trusteeship Council prior to their selection for the membership of the Mission.
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T.C., Resol. 108 (V), 20 June 1949, Doc. T/411, 10 August 1949, p. 14.
U.N. Doc. T/1133, September 1954, T.C. Resol. 999 (XIV), 2 July 1954, pp. 2-3.
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U.N. Doc. T/46, 24 September 1948, pp. 33-36.
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U.N. Doc. T/1061, 16, June 1953, pp. 3-11.
See U.N. Docs. T/l 152-1153, 1155, 1156, 1158, 24/27 January 1955 for Observations on African Trust Territories.
17.2V. Doc. T/SR. 519, 18 March 1954, pp. 298-299.
U.N. Doc. T/794, 23 July 1950, p. 61.
U.N. Docs. A/C. 4/178, 9 November 1950, pp. 8-9, 18-21, 33-35; T/1042, 28 April 1953, p. 49.
Supra, p. 160.
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Chowdhuri, R.N. (1955). The Permanent Mandates Commission and the Trusteeship Council. In: International Mandates and Trusteeship Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9216-3_7
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