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href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMT-nin_q%C9%99yyum_%C9%99razisi" title="BMT-nin qəyyum ərazisi – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="BMT-nin qəyyum ərazisi" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%8F_%D0%90%D0%90%D0%9D" title="Падапечная тэрыторыя ААН – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Падапечная тэрыторыя ААН" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territoris_fide%C3%AFcomissaris" title="Territoris fideïcomissaris – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Territoris fideïcomissaris" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poru%C4%8Densk%C3%A9_%C3%BAzem%C3%AD" title="Poručenské území – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Poručenské území" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treuhandgebiet" title="Treuhandgebiet – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Treuhandgebiet" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fideicomiso_de_las_Naciones_Unidas" title="Fideicomiso de las Naciones Unidas – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Fideicomiso de las Naciones Unidas" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuratora_teritorio_de_la_Unui%C4%9Dintaj_Nacioj" title="Kuratora teritorio de la Unuiĝintaj Nacioj – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Kuratora teritorio de la Unuiĝintaj Nacioj" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%B2%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AA_%D9%82%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%88%D9%85%D8%AA_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%84%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF" title="سرزمین‌های تحت قیمومت سازمان ملل متحد – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="سرزمین‌های تحت قیمومت سازمان ملل متحد" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territoires_sous_tutelle_des_Nations_unies" title="Territoires sous tutelle des Nations unies – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Territoires sous tutelle des Nations unies" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%A0%ED%83%81%ED%86%B5%EC%B9%98%EB%A0%B9" title="신탁통치령 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="신탁통치령" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilayah_Perwalian_Perserikatan_Bangsa-Bangsa" title="Wilayah Perwalian Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Wilayah Perwalian Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amministrazione_fiduciaria_delle_Nazioni_Unite" title="Amministrazione fiduciaria delle Nazioni Unite – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Amministrazione fiduciaria delle Nazioni Unite" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%A9%D7%9C_%D7%94%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%95%D7%97%D7%93%D7%95%D7%AA" title="טריטוריות הנאמנות של האומות המאוחדות – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="טריטוריות הנאמנות של האומות המאוחדות" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%94%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%95%E1%83%94%E1%83%9D%E1%83%91%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%97%E1%83%90%E1%83%A8%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1%E1%83%9D_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90" title="მეურვეობის საერთაშორისო სისტემა – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მეურვეობის საერთაშორისო სისტემა" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eneo_la_kudhaminiwa" title="Eneo la kudhaminiwa – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Eneo la kudhaminiwa" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungtini%C5%B3_Taut%C5%B3_globojamoji_teritorija" title="Jungtinių Tautų globojamoji teritorija – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Jungtinių Tautų globojamoji teritorija" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Az_Egyes%C3%BClt_Nemzetek_Szervezete_gy%C3%A1ms%C3%A1gi_ter%C3%BCletei" title="Az Egyesült Nemzetek Szervezete gyámsági területei – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Az Egyesült Nemzetek Szervezete gyámsági területei" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%87_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%87" title="وصايه دوليه – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="وصايه دوليه" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustschap" title="Trustschap – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Trustschap" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BF%A1%E8%A8%97%E7%B5%B1%E6%B2%BB" title="信託統治 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="信託統治" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilsynsomr%C3%A5de" title="Tilsynsområde – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Tilsynsområde" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMT_ishonchli_hududi" title="BMT ishonchli hududi – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="BMT ishonchli hududi" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terytorium_powiernicze_ONZ" title="Terytorium powiernicze ONZ – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Terytorium powiernicze ONZ" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protetorado_das_Na%C3%A7%C3%B5es_Unidas" title="Protetorado das Nações Unidas – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Protetorado das Nações Unidas" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%9E%D0%9E%D0%9D" title="Подопечная территория ООН – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Подопечная территория ООН" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poru%C4%8Densk%C3%A9_%C3%BAzemie_(OSN)" title="Poručenské územie (OSN) – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Poručenské územie (OSN)" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yhdistyneiden_kansakuntien_huoltohallintoalue" title="Yhdistyneiden kansakuntien huoltohallintoalue – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Yhdistyneiden kansakuntien huoltohallintoalue" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN:s_f%C3%B6rvaltarskapsomr%C3%A5den" title="FN:s förvaltarskapsområden – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="FN:s förvaltarskapsområden" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%90%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF_%E0%AE%A8%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B3%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8A%E0%AE%B1%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%8D" title="ஐக்கிய நாடுகளின் பொறுப்பாட்சிகள் – Tamil" 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The sign reads "Please release us from the bondage of your trusteeship agreement."</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_UN_trust_territories_act.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Map_of_UN_trust_territories_act.png/220px-Map_of_UN_trust_territories_act.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="102" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Map_of_UN_trust_territories_act.png/330px-Map_of_UN_trust_territories_act.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Map_of_UN_trust_territories_act.png/440px-Map_of_UN_trust_territories_act.png 2x" data-file-width="1357" data-file-height="628" /></a><figcaption>UN trust territories by trustee</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:UN_Trust_Territory_successors.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/UN_Trust_Territory_successors.svg/220px-UN_Trust_Territory_successors.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/UN_Trust_Territory_successors.svg/330px-UN_Trust_Territory_successors.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/UN_Trust_Territory_successors.svg/440px-UN_Trust_Territory_successors.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1314" /></a><figcaption>Modern successor states of UN trust territories <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#346733; color:white;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> Modern states composed solely of former trust territories</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#C6DEBD; color:black;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> Modern states composed partially of former trust territories</div></figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>United Nations trust territories</b> were the successors of the remaining <a href="/wiki/League_of_Nations_mandate" title="League of Nations mandate">League of Nations mandates</a>, and came into being when the <a href="/wiki/League_of_Nations" title="League of Nations">League of Nations</a> ceased to exist in 1946. All the trust territories were administered through the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Trusteeship_Council" title="United Nations Trusteeship Council">United Nations Trusteeship Council</a> and authorized to a single country. The concept is distinct from a <a href="/wiki/List_of_territories_governed_by_the_United_Nations" title="List of territories governed by the United Nations">territory temporarily and directly governed by the United Nations</a>. </p><p>The one League of Nations mandate not succeeded by a trust territory was <a href="/wiki/South_West_Africa" title="South West Africa">South West Africa</a>, at <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a>'s insistence. South Africa's <a href="/wiki/Apartheid" title="Apartheid">apartheid</a> regime refused to commit to preparing the territory for independence and <a href="/wiki/Majority_rule" title="Majority rule">majority rule</a>, as required by the trust territory guidelines, among other objections. South-West Africa eventually gained independence in 1990 as <a href="/wiki/Namibia" title="Namibia">Namibia</a>. </p><p>All trust territories have either attained self-government or <a href="/wiki/Independence" title="Independence">independence</a>. The last was <a href="/wiki/Palau" title="Palau">Palau</a>, formerly part of the <a href="/wiki/Trust_Territory_of_the_Pacific_Islands" title="Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands">Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands</a>, which became a <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_member_states" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations member states">member state of the United Nations</a> in December 1994. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Trust_territories_(and_administering_powers)"><span id="Trust_territories_.28and_administering_powers.29"></span>Trust territories (and administering powers)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=United_Nations_trust_territories&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Trust territories (and administering powers)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Former_German_Schutzgebiete">Former German <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Schutzgebiete" class="mw-redirect" title="Schutzgebiete">Schutzgebiete</a></i></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=United_Nations_trust_territories&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Former German Schutzgebiete"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>All these territories previously were League of Nations mandates. </p><p><br /> </p> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%; font-size:90%"> <tbody><tr> <th>Trust territories</th> <th>United Nations Trusteeship Power </th> <th>Prior name</th> <th>Prior sov.</th> <th style="width:50%">Comments </th> <th>Current state </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/British_Cameroon" class="mw-redirect" title="British Cameroon">British Cameroon</a></td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Kamerun" title="Kamerun">Kamerun</a> </td> <td rowspan="11"><a href="/wiki/German_colonial_empire" title="German colonial empire">German colonial empire</a> </td> <td rowspan="2">Following a <a href="/wiki/Plebiscite" class="mw-redirect" title="Plebiscite">plebiscite</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northern_Cameroons" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Cameroons">Northern Cameroons</a> became part of <a href="/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a> in May 1961 and <a href="/wiki/Southern_Cameroons" title="Southern Cameroons">Southern Cameroons</a> joined Cameroon in October 1961.</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Cameroon" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Cameroon">Republic of Cameroon</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Cameroon" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Cameroon">Republic of Cameroon</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/French_Cameroon" title="French Cameroon">French Cameroon</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a></td> <td>Achieved independence as <a href="/wiki/Cameroon" title="Cameroon">Cameroon</a> in 1960. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/History_of_Nauru#Trust_Territory" title="History of Nauru">Territory of Nauru</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/German_New_Guinea" title="German New Guinea">German New Guinea</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nauru_Independence_Act_1967" title="Nauru Independence Act 1967">Granted independence</a> from Australia (administering authority) in 1968.</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nauru" title="Nauru">Nauru</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Territory_of_New_Guinea" title="Territory of New Guinea">Territory of New Guinea</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> </td> <td>In 1975, it was legally unified with the <a href="/wiki/Territory_of_Papua" title="Territory of Papua">Territory of Papua</a> and granted independence as <a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Western_New_Guinea" title="Western New Guinea">western half</a> of the <a href="/wiki/New_Guinea" title="New Guinea">island</a>, formerly Dutch and now part of <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a>, was never part of either territory. </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Ruanda-Urundi" title="Ruanda-Urundi">Ruanda-Urundi</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a></td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/German_East_Africa" title="German East Africa">German East Africa</a></td> <td rowspan="2">Separately gained independence in 1962 as <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Rwanda" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Rwanda">Republic of Rwanda</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Burundi" title="Kingdom of Burundi">Kingdom of Burundi</a>.</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Rwanda" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Rwanda">Republic of Rwanda</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Burundi" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Burundi">Republic of Burundi</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tanganyika_Territory" title="Tanganyika Territory">Tanganyika Territory</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> </td> <td>Granted independence in 1961. Federated with the former British protectorate <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Zanzibar" title="People's Republic of Zanzibar">Zanzibar</a> in 1964 to form <a href="/wiki/Tanzania" title="Tanzania">Tanzania</a>. </td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_Republic_of_Tanzania" class="mw-redirect" title="United Republic of Tanzania">United Republic of Tanzania</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/French_Togoland" title="French Togoland">French Togoland</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Togoland" title="Togoland">Togoland</a> </td> <td>Became independent as <a href="/wiki/Togo" title="Togo">Togo</a> in 1960. </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Togo" title="Togo">Togo</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/British_Togoland" title="British Togoland">British Togoland</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> </td> <td>This territory was merged in 1956 with the British colony of the <a href="/wiki/Gold_Coast_(British_colony)" title="Gold Coast (British colony)">Gold Coast</a>, which was granted independence as <a href="/wiki/Ghana" title="Ghana">Ghana</a> in 1957. </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ghana" title="Ghana">Ghana</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Western_Samoa_Trust_Territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Samoa Trust Territory">Western Samoa</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/German_Samoa" title="German Samoa">German Samoa</a> </td> <td>Granted independence in 1962, known since 1997 simply as <a href="/wiki/Samoa" title="Samoa">Samoa</a>. </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Independent_State_of_Samoa" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent State of Samoa">Independent State of Samoa</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Former_Japanese_possessions">Former Japanese possessions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=United_Nations_trust_territories&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Former Japanese possessions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%; font-size:90%"> <tbody><tr> <th>Trust territories</th> <th>United Nations Trusteeship Power </th> <th>Prior name</th> <th>Prior sov. </th> <th>Current state</th> <th style="width:50%">Comments </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Trust_Territory_of_the_Pacific_Islands" title="Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands">Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands</a></td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> </td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/South_Seas_Mandate" title="South Seas Mandate">South Seas Mandate</a> </td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" title="Empire of Japan">Empire of Japan</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a></td> <td>Became <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_(U.S._insular_area)" title="Commonwealth (U.S. insular area)">US Commonwealth</a> in 1986. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Marshall_Islands" title="Marshall Islands">Marshall Islands</a> </td> <td>Became an <a href="/wiki/Associated_state" title="Associated state">associated state</a> of the United States after signing a <a href="/wiki/Compact_of_Free_Association" title="Compact of Free Association">Compact of Free Association</a> in 1986. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Federated_States_of_Micronesia" title="Federated States of Micronesia">Federated States of Micronesia</a> </td> <td>Became an associated state of United States after signing a Compact of Free Association in 1986. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Palau" title="Palau">Palau</a> </td> <td>Became an associated state of United States after signing and ratifying a Compact of Free Association going into effect in 1994. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Former_Italian_possessions">Former Italian possessions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=United_Nations_trust_territories&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Former Italian possessions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%; font-size:90%"> <tbody><tr> <th>Trust territories</th> <th>United Nations Trusteeship Power </th> <th>Prior name</th> <th>Prior sov. </th> <th>Current state</th> <th style="width:50%">Comments </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Trust_Territory_of_Somaliland" title="Trust Territory of Somaliland">Territory of Somaliland</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Italian_East_Africa" title="Italian East Africa">Italian East Africa</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Italian_Empire" title="Italian Empire">Italian Empire</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a></td> <td>In 1960, the Trust Territory merged with the <a href="/wiki/State_of_Somaliland" title="State of Somaliland">State of Somaliland</a> to form the <a href="/wiki/Somali_Republic" title="Somali Republic">Somali Republic</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Proposed_trust_territories">Proposed trust territories</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=United_Nations_trust_territories&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Proposed trust territories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>: Under the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine" title="United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine">United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine</a>, Jerusalem would have become a <i><a href="/wiki/Corpus_separatum_(Jerusalem)" title="Corpus separatum (Jerusalem)">corpus separatum</a></i> territory under United Nations Trusteeship Council administration. Both <a href="/wiki/Palestinians" title="Palestinians">Palestinian Arabs</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Yishuv" title="Yishuv">Yishuv</a> opposed this solution.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korea</a>: In wartime talks, <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> proposed that Korea be placed under an American–<a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> trust administration. The plan was eclipsed after Roosevelt's death on 12 April 1945, although it was expressed in the December <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Conference_(1945)" title="Moscow Conference (1945)">Moscow Conference</a>, and caused considerable civil unrest in Korea.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>: Roosevelt also proposed that <a href="/wiki/French_Indochina" title="French Indochina">French Indochina</a> be placed under an international trusteeship as an alternative to <a href="/wiki/French_colonial_empire" title="French colonial empire">French colonial rule</a> and immediate independence.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_Libya" title="Italian Libya">Italian Libya</a>: Between 1945 and 1947, the Soviet Union made various proposals that <a href="/wiki/Tripolitania" title="Tripolitania">Tripolitania</a> be placed under Soviet trusteeship for ten years, or a joint trusteeship with the United Kingdom and the United States, or that Libya as a whole become an Italian trusteeship.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine" title="Mandatory Palestine">Mandatory Palestine</a>: The United States government under <a href="/wiki/Harry_Truman" class="mw-redirect" title="Harry Truman">Harry Truman</a> <a href="/wiki/American_trusteeship_proposal_for_Palestine" title="American trusteeship proposal for Palestine">proposed a UN trusteeship status for the Mandatory Palestine in 1948</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ryukyu_Islands" title="Ryukyu Islands">Ryukyu Islands</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bonin_Islands" title="Bonin Islands">Bonin Islands</a>: the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_San_Francisco" title="Treaty of San Francisco">Treaty of San Francisco</a> included provisions which provided the United States the right to convert its administration over the Ryukyu and Bonin Islands into a trust territory, but it never did so before sovereignty was voluntarily reverted to Japan.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=United_Nations_trust_territories&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_territories_governed_by_the_United_Nations" title="List of territories governed by the United Nations">List of territories governed by the United Nations</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=United_Nations_trust_territories&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gang Man-gil (1994). 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