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Social Council, the Secretariat, and the International Court of Justice.) The
purpose of the Trusteeship Council was to guide the Trust Territories toward
self-government. Ideally, this purpose would be quickly fulfilled and the
Council would no longer be needed.
The members of the Trusteeship Council are the same as the five
permanent members of the Security Council—although the individual
representatives are different people. These members are China, France, the
Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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The San Francisco
Conference met in 1945 to
finalize the UN charter. In
this picture, representatives
from countries known
as the “Big Three”—the
United Kingdom, Russia,
and the United States—
discuss details.