Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
The sixteenth session of the Trusteeship Council was held at UN Headquarters from v June 8 to July 22, 1955. At the opening meeting Mason Sears (United States) was elected president and Max Dorsinville (Haiti) vice-president. An agenda of 20 items was adopted by the Council, which devoted the greater part of the session to examination of the annual reports on the administration of the trust territories of Somaliland, the Pacific Islands, Western Samoa, New Guinea and Nauru. The Council also made arrangements for visiting missions for 1955, and dealt with a number of questions referred to it by the General Assembly. Before concluding its sixteenth session, the Council adopted the report of the Secretary-General on credentials, and elected R. M. Urquía (El Salvador) temporary president for the fifth special session of the Council, which was to be held at UN Headquarters in October or November, 1955 for the purpose of considering the special report of the 1955 visiting mission to the trust territories of Togoland under British administration and Togoland under French administration.
1 Trusteeship Council Official Records (16th Session), p. 2.
2 Document T/1170.
3 Document T/1194.
4 Document T/1177.
5 Document T/1189.
6 Document T/1172.
7 Document T/1143 and Corr.1.
8 Document T/1176.
9 Document T/1188.
10 Document T/L.610.
11 Document T/L.587.
12 Document T/L.611.
13 Document T/L.593/Rev.2.
14 Document T/L.618.
15 Document T/L.508.
16 Document T/1192.
17 Document T/L.612.
18 Document T/L.616.
19 Document T/L.606.
20 Document T/L.607.
21 Document T/1187.
22 Document T/L.586.
23 Document T/L.595.
24 Document T/1180.
25 United States Department of the Interior and United States Department of the Navy, Seventh Annual Report on the Administration of the Territory of the Pacific Islands, July 1, 1953, to June 30, 1954, Washington, D.C., 04 1955Google Scholar.
26 Document T/L.596.
27 Document T/L.601.
28 Document S/3416.
29 For further information on the hearings, see this issue, p. 169.
30 General Assembly Official Records (10th session), Supplement 4, p. 6–21Google Scholar.
31 For information on Council action on these missions at its fifteenth session, see International Organization, IX, p. 413–414.
32 Document T/L.584/Rev.2.
33 Document T/L.584/Rev.1.
34 For further information on this resolution, see International Organization, IX, p. 413.
35 For further information on this resolution, see ibid., IX, p. 136–137.
36 Document T/L.585/Rev.1.
37 Document T/L.594.
38 Document T/L.592.
39 Document T/L.580.
40 Document T/L.603.
41 For action on this matter at the ninth session of the General Assembly, see International Organization, IX, p. 136; for action at the tenth session, see this issue, p. 114–115.
42 Document T/L.579 and Add.1.
43 Document T/L.602.
44 Document T/L.500.
45 Document T/1184 and Add.1.
46 Document T/1196.
47 Document T/1193.