UN Security Council
1990

Resolution 683 (1990) of 22 December 1990 The Security Council, Recalling Chapter XII of the Charter of the United Nations, which established an international trusteeship system, Conscious of its responsibility relating to strategic areas as set forth in Article 83, paragraph 1, of the Charter, Recalling its resolution 21 (1947) of 2 April 1947, by which it approved the Trusteeship Agreement for the former Japanese Mandated Islands, 118 since known as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Noting that the Trusteeship Agreement designated the United States of America as Administering Authority of the Trust Territory, Mindful that article 6 of the Trusteeship Agreement, in conformity with Article 76 of the Charter, obligated the Administering Authority, inter alia, to promote the development of the inhabitants of the Trust Territory toward self-government or independence as may be appropriate to the particular circumstances of the Trust Territory and its peoples and the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned, Aware that, towards this end, negotiations between the Administering Authority and representatives of the Trust