Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
Trust Territory  of the United States

1947–1994
 

 

 

Flag Coat of arms
Location of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands in the Pacific
Capital Saipan
Language(s) English
Political structure United Nations Trust Territory
Chief of State
 - 1993–1994 Bill Clinton1 (last)
High Commissioner
 - 1981–1987 Janet J. McCoy2 (last)
Historical era Cold War
 - Trusteeship July 18, 1947
 - Free Association October 1, 1994
Area
 - 1980 1,779 km2 (687 sq mi)
Population
 - 1980 est. 132,929 
     Density 74.7 /km2  (193.5 /sq mi)
Currency USD
1Clinton was President when Palau's Compact of Free Association took effect. Ronald Reagan was President when the RMI, FSM, and CNMI's final status took effect.
2McCoy retired as High Commissioner in 1987. As Palau was still a part of the TTPI, it was administered by officials in the Office of Territorial and International Affairs until 1994.

The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI) was a United Nations trust territory in Micronesia (western Pacific) administered by the United States from 1947 to 1986.

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History

The territory comprised the former South Pacific Mandate, a League of Nations Mandate administered by Japan and taken by the U.S. in 1944.[1]

The TTPI entered UN trusteeship on July 18, 1947 and was designated a "strategic area" in its 1947 trusteeship agreement. As such, its formal status as a UN trust territory could be terminated only by the Security Council, and not by the General Assembly as with other trust territories. The United States Navy controlled the TTPI from a headquarters in Guam until 1951, when the United States Department of the Interior took over control, administering the territory from a base in Saipan.[2]

On October 21, 1986, the U.S. ended its administration of the Marshall Islands district. The termination of U.S. administration of the Chuuk, Yap, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and the Mariana Islands districts of the TTPI soon followed on November 3, 1986. The Security Council only formally ended the trusteeship for the Chuuk, Yap, Kosrae, Pohnpei, Mariana Islands, and Marshall Islands districts on December 22, 1990. On May 25, 1994, the Council ended the trusteeship for the Palau district, after which the U.S. and Palau agreed to establish the latter's independence on October 1.

Current status

This area is now divided into four territories:

References

External links

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