United Nations Security Council resolution 683, adopted on 22 December 1990, after recalling Resolution 21 (1947) which approved the Trusteeship Territory of the Japanese Mandated Islands (since known as the

Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI) was a United Nations trust territory in Micronesia administered by the United States from 1947 to 1994. History Spain initially claimed the islands that later composed the territory of the Trus ...

) as well as

Chapter XII of the United Nations Charter Chapter XII of the United Nations Charter deals with the international trusteeship system. It reaffirms the twin goals mentioned in Chapter XI to "promote the political, economic, social, and educational advancement of the inhabitants of the tr ...

which established the United Nations Trusteeship system, the council determined that, in the light of entry into force of new status agreements for

Federated States of Micronesia The Federated States of Micronesia (; abbreviated FSM) is an island country in Oceania. It consists of four states from west to east, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosraethat are spread across the western Pacific. Together, the states compr ...

, the

Marshall Islands The Marshall Islands ( mh, Ṃajeḷ), officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands ( mh, Aolepān Aorōkin Ṃajeḷ),'' () is an independent island country and microstate near the Equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the Inte ...

and the

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, the objectives of the Trusteeship Agreement had been completed and therefore ended the Trusteeship Agreement with those entities. The council also hoped that the people of

Palau Palau,, officially the Republic of Palau and historically ''Belau'', ''Palaos'' or ''Pelew'', is an island country and microstate in the western Pacific. The nation has approximately 340 islands and connects the western chain of the ...

, which had not yet completed the negotiations, will be freely able to exercise their right to

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, as the above-mentioned states already had. At the same time, the council welcomed the Administering Authority's assurance that it would assist the

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in attaining its final status in determining its future direction. Resolution 683 was adopted by 14 votes in favour, with

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voting against the resolution, stating it had felt the council had not properly discharged its responsibilities. The Cuban representative said that it should have given the people of the territories concerned an opportunity to explain their reasons for not wanting the council to take the action it had taken.

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Text of the Resolution at undocs.org
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