in accordance With the Purposes of the United
Nations laid down in Article 1of the present Charter, shall be:
a. to further international peace and se·
curity;;
b. to promote the political, economic,social,
and educational advancement of the inhabitants
of the trust territories, and their progressive
development towards self-government or independence as may be appropriate to the par·
ticular circumstances of each territory and its
peoples and the freely expressed wishes of the
peoples concerned, and as may. he provided by
the terms of each trusteeship agreement;
c. to encourage respect for human rights
and for fundamental freedoms for all without
distinction as to race, sex,language,or religion,
and to encourage recognition of the interde·
pendence of the peoples of the world; and
d. to ensure equal treatment in social, eco·
nomic,and commercial matters for all Members
of the United Nations and their nationals, and
also equal treatment for the latter in the administration of justice, without prejudice to the
attainment of the foregoing objectives and subject to the provisions of Article 80.
Article 77
1. The trusteeship system shall apply to
such territories in the following categories as may
he placed thereunder by means of trusteeship
agreements:
a. territories now held under mandate;
h. territories which may he detached from
enemy states as a result of the Second World
War; and
c. territories voluntarily placed under the
system by states responsible for their admin·
istration.
2. It will be a matter for subsequent agreement
as to which territories in the foregoing categories
will he brought under the trusteeship system and
upon what terms.
Article 78
The trusteeship system shall not apply to territories which have become Members of the United
Nations, relationship among which shall be based
on respect for the principle of sovereign equality.
Article 79
The terms of trusteeship for each territory to
he placed under the trusteeship system, including
anyalteration or amendment,shall be agreed upon
by the states directly concerned, including the
mandatory power in the case of territories held
under mandate by a Member of the United Nations, and shall he approved as provided for in
Articles 83 and 85.
Article 80
1. Except as may he agreed upon in individual
trusteeship agreements, made under Articles 77,
79, and 81, placing each territory under the trus·
teeship system, and until such agreements have
been concluded, nothing in this Chapter shall be
construed in or of itself to alter in any manner
the rights whatsoever of any states or any peoples
or the terms of existing international instruments
to which Members of the United Nations may re·
spectively be parties.
2. Paragraph 1of this Article shall not be interpreted as giving grounds for delay or postponement of the negotiation and conclusion of agreements for placing mandated and other territories
under the· trusteeship system as provided for in
Article 77.
Article 81
The trusteeship agreement shall in each case
include the terms under which the trust territory
will he administered and designate the authority
which will exercise the administration of the trust
territory. Such authority, hereinafter called the
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