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

A/RES/946(X)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1956.

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2 versions · 1954–1956

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1956	A/RES/946(X)	Attainment by the Trust Territories of the objective of self-government or independence	316	22%Compare
1954	A/RES/752(VIII)	Attainment by the Trust Territories of the objective of self-government or independence	379	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Independence Report Preparation Self-Rule Trust Territories

What’s in this document?

2 operative paragraphs

Recalling that, by its resolutions 558 (VI) of 18 January 1952, 752 (VIII) of 9 December 1953 and 858

(IX) of 14 December 1954, it invited the Administering Authority of each Trust Territory, other than Somaliland under Italian administration, to include in each annual report information concerning measures taken or contemplated towards self-government or independence, and estimates of the periods of time required for such measures, and requested the Trusteeship Council to include in each of its reports to the General Assembly a separate section dealing with the subject and stating in each case its conclusions and recommendations,

Noting with regret the omission from the report30 of the Council covering the period from 17 July 1954 to 22 July 1955 of the separate section envisaged by the above-mentioned resolutions,

Noting further that the Council, by its resolution 1254

(XVI) of 19 July 1955, decided to instruct each of its drafting committees on the annual reports concerned, beginning from its seventeenth session, to prepare, in the course of its regular functions and in the light of General Assembly resolutions 752 (VIII) and 858 (IX), appropriate draft conclusions and recommendations concerning the question of the attainment by the Territory of self-government or independence,

Draws the attention of the Trusteeship Council to the importance which the General Assembly continues to attach to the question of the attainment by the Trust Territories of the objective of self-government or independence;

Requests the Council to ensure that the procedure devised by it for dealing in future with this question will enable it to comply fully with the terms of the relevant General Assembly resolutions and, accordingly, to include in its next and succeeding reports to .the Assembly a separate section containing the information indicated so Ibid., Supplement No. 4 (A/2933).

Tenth Session

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15 December 1955.

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