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United Nations
While some people question the effectiveness of the United Nations,
the success of the Trusteeship Council is proof that the United Nations has
succeeded in at least one area. The Trusteeship Council was given eleven
Trust Territories to administer and help to achieve self-government, and
it met this goal in 1994 with the decision of the Palau people to become
self-governing.
Although the Trusteeship Council has finished the job it was given, and
all the Trust Territories are now self-governing, sixteen Non-Self-Governing
Territories are still working toward independence.
This poster from 1983 shows the Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations.