...placed thereunder by subsequent agreement. 2. The basic objectives of the trusteeship system should be: l Settlement of Disputes is appended to this report. Text for Chapter on Pacific Settlem and social advancement of the trust territories and their inhabitants and their progressive development...

...of the1 Trusteeship System is to promote the political, economic, social and educational advancement of the Trust Territories, and their progressive development towards self-government or independence, NOTING that the Trusteeship Agreements for some of these Territories authorize the Administering Authority...

...Nations laid down in Article 1 of the present Charter, shall be: a. to further international peace arid security; b. to promote the political, economic, social,...peoples and the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned, mid as may be provided by the terms of each trusteeship agreement; - c. to encourage respect...

...accordance withthe purposes of the United Nations laid down in article I of the present charter shall be : "(B) To promote the political, economic, social, and...trust territories, and their progressive development toward self-government or independence as may be appropriate to the particular circumstances of each...

...abuses". The international trusteeship system set up in the Charter has as one of its basic objectives "to promote the political, economic, social, and educational...advancement of the inhabitants of the trust territories". Provision has been made for the "specialized agencies, like the proposed Educational and Cultural Organization,...

...to the overriding duty of the Administering Authority, in accordance with Article 76 of the Charter, to promote the political, economic, social and educational advancement of the inhabitants of the Territory, to carry out the other basic objectives of the international trusteeship system and to maintain...

...furtherance of international peace and security; (2) the promotion of the political, economic, social, and educational advancement of the inhabitants of...trust territories and their progressive development toward selfgovernment or independence; (3) the encouragement of respect for human rights and for fundamental...

...referred, in Chapter XII, Article 76 on the International Trusteeship System, to the possibility of "progressive development towards self-government or...peoples and the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned ...". Nonetheless, legal doctrine up to the sixties either failed to mention the principle...

...the basic objectives of the trusteeship system the progressive development of the trust territories "towards selfgovernment or independence as may be...to the particular circumstances of each territory and the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned". Let us now look at some particular aspects...

...of advancement . . . In the trusteeship chapters, however, in Article 76(b) there is a reference to "Self-government or independence as may be appropriate...to the particular circumstances of each territory. . . ." According to Lawrence Finkelstein, who was in the US Delegation staff, Bunche played a major...