The Future of the Trust Territory of Tanganyika

A/RES/1065(XI)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1957.

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Democracy Independence Political Conditions Self-Rule Tanganyika Visiting Missions

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Draws the attention of the Administering Authority and the Trusteeship Council to the views expressed by the President of the Tanganyika African National Union and to the relevant debates in the Fourth Committee;

Recommends to the Administering Authority that it should consider making a statement on the policy it proposes to follow in Tanganyika and should, inter alia, include therein the principle that, in accordance with the objectives of the International Trusteeship System, the Territory shall be guided towards selfgovernment or independence and shall become a democratic State in which al! inhabitants have equal rights;

Recommends to the Trusteeship Council that it instruct its periodic visiting mission which will visit the Trust Territories in East Africa in 1957, to study in particular the question of Tanganyika's political development, in the light of such relevant information as it obtains from the Administering Authority and from representatives of the population of the Trust Territory;

Recommends that the Trusteeship Council include in its next reports, in the framework both of its examination of conditions in the Territory and of the question of the attainment by the Trust Territories of the ?bjective of self-government or independence, a spec1al study of the Territory's political development, in the light of the visiting mission's report and the ~nformation obtained from the Administering Author- 1ty.

26 February 1957.

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