UN General Assembly
1946

In the field of trusteeship, we are now reaching the time when the conditions on which depended the organization of the Trusteeship Council are about to be fulfilled. My country has given practical proof of its desire to co-operate by submitting to the United Nations — we were perhaps the first — the terms of the trusteeship agreement applicable to the territories under French mandate. This draft trusteeship agreement is based on the principles of the Charter and, in drawing it up, the French Government was constantly concerned to secure the benefits of these principles for the peoples entrusted to its care. It will therefore help these peoples, as it has done in the past, to achieve further progress and a higher standard of living. It fully intends not to fail in its sacred mission in this sphere. During the last few months the United Nations has had to examine one of the most tormenting problems of our times, that of atomic energy.