United Nations Security Council Resolution 683
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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. The Imperial Japanese South Seas Mandate had been seized by the U.S. during the Pacifi ...
) as well as Chapter XII of the United Nations Charter which established the United Nations Trusteeship system, the council determined that, in the light of entry into force of new status agreements for the
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, the
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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, is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific Ocean. The Republic of Palau consists of approximately 340 islands and is the western part of the Caroline Islands ...
, 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.


See also

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Compact of Free Association The Compacts of Free Association (COFA) are international agreements establishing and governing the relationships of free association between the United States and the three Pacific Island sovereign states of the Federated States of Micronesia ( ...
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List of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 601 to 700 This is a list of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 601 to 700 adopted between 30 October 1987 and 17 June 1991. See also * Lists of United Nations Security Council resolutions United Nations Security Council resolutions are Uni ...
(1987–1991) * United Nations Trust Territories


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External links

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Text of the Resolution at undocs.org
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