UN General Assembly
1947

The Philippine delegation rejoices also over the establishment of the trusteeship system and the Trusteeship Council and the evident desire of the administering Powers to observe the obligations they have contracted under the Charter and under the terms of their respective agreements with the United Nations. It is to be regretted, however, that by the same policy which resulted in more liberal provisions being made for Trust Territories than for Non-Self-Governing Territories in the Charter, there still persists a certain disinclination to promote the political progress of the Non-Self-Governing Territories which the Charter calls “a sacred trust”. I would recommend to each and every Member of the General Assembly a careful perusal of the records of the meetings of the Ad Hoc Committee, so ably led by my good friend and distinguished colleague of New Zealand, Sir Carl Berendsen, which was created by the General Assembly last year in order to examine the Secretary-General’s summary of the reports transmitted by the metropolitan Powers under Article 73e of the Charter.