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Security Council Resolution 21, adopted unanimously at the 124 meeting of the

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on April 2, 1947, placed the former German Pacific Islands north of the

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, which were formerly mandated to

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the n ...

by the

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, under the Trusteeship System. The Security Council declared 16 Articles under which it had approved the terms. It declared the United States to be the Administering Authority and gave it permission to militarise the territory.

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* {{UNSCR 1947 0021 0021 0021 0021 0021 0021 0021 0021 0021 0021 1947 in Nauru 1947 in the Federated States of Micronesia 1947 in the Marshall Islands 1947 in Japan 1947 in the United States April 1947 events

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