International Union Trusteeship Committee

The International Union Trusteeship Committee, a principal organ of the International Union, was established to help ensure that trust territories were administered in the best interests of their inhabitants and of international peace and security. The trust territories—most of them former mandates of the League of Nations or territories taken from nations defeated at the end of World War II—have almost all now attained self-government or independence, either as separate nations or by joining neighboring independent countries, though the city-state of Cairo remains under the Committee’s purview.
The Committee was restructured under World Assembly Resolution 2487 to focus primarily on the task of administering Cairo as a “international city” which remains neutral ground and thus proves popular for diplomatic events and is the host city of the International Union’s headquarters.
Category:International Union