S/22001 SC

The Security Council Recalling Chapter XII of the Charter of the United Nations which established an international trusteeship system, Article 83, Consciqus cfParagraph responsibility relating to strategic areas as its 1, of the Charter of the United Nations, set forth in Recalling it? resolution 21 (1947) Japanese April of 2 1947 in which it approved the Trusteeship Agreement for the former Mandated Islands since known as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Administering Authority of Neting that the Trusteeship Agreement designated the United States of America as the Trust Territory, Mindful that Article 6 of the Trusteeship Agreement, Administering Authority, in conformity with Article 76 of the Charter independence inhabitants of the Trust Territory inter alia, obligated the to promote the development of the towards self-government or circumstances peoples concerned, of the Trust Territory and as may be its Peoples and the particular appropriate to the freely expressed wishes of the Aware thate covards this end_ negotiations between the Administering Authority and representatives of a Compact of Trust Territory began in the Free Association in the case of 1969 and the resulted Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands, and a Commonwealth Covenant in the case of the Northern Mariana Islands, Satisfied that the peoples of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands have freely exercised their right to self-determination in approving their respective new the Trusteeship agreements in that status plebiscites observed by visiting missions of Council and in addition to these plebiscites, the duly constituted legislatures of these entities. freely expressing their wish to have adopted resolutions approving the termination of the respective new status of these agreements, thereby the status of entities as Parts of the Trust Territory, Hoping that freely exercising their right to self-determination, the people of Palau will be able in due course to complete the process. Taking note of resolution 2183 of the Trusteeship Council and subsequent reports of the Trusteeship Council to the Security Council, Determining, in the light of the entry into force of the new status agreements with respect to the Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands and the Marshall Islands, that the objectives of the Trusteeship Agreement have been fully attained, and that the applicability of the Trusteeship Agreement has terminated.

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