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Trusteeship Council At its creation, the United Nations designed a trusteeship system to look after the colonies of the Axis powers—called Trust Territories—and dedicated an entire chapter of the Charter to describing the goals and duties of the system. The Trusteeship Council would oversee the system and would be one of the six main organs of the United Nations. (The others were the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and

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