international trusteeship system

The UN shall establish ...an international trusteeship system for the administration and supervision of trust territories.

Chapter XII of the United Nations Charter deals with the international trusteeship system.

Mr. Kozyrev suggested that it would "be appropriate" to consider a "contemporary interpretation of the international trusteeship system, as set forth in the U.N. Charter."

The Trusteeship Council was formed in 1945 to oversee the decolonization of those dependent territories that were to be placed under the international trusteeship system created by the United Nations Charter as a successor to the League of Nations mandate system.

The Papua and New Guinea Act 1949 formally approved the placing of New Guinea under the international trusteeship system and confirmed the administrative union under the title of The Territory of Papua and New Guinea.