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truhsteeship

  • n  a dependent country; administered by another country under the supervision of the United Nations
  • n  the position of trustee

  • The trusteeship idea is a bastard offspring of timidity and confusion.
  • The principle of trusteeship for the natives .
  • Korea is going to have trusteeship.
Quotes

  • Jean Charest in CTV Montreal
    There was never any question of putting Montreal under trusteeship,Charest told reporters.
  • Omar al-Bashir in Independent Online
    Bashir, speaking in Addis Ababa, said the plan would put Sudan "under international trusteeship of the United Nations".
  • Charles Murigande in ISN
    It was in 1959, while still under UN trusteeship, that the first acts of genocide against Tutsis took place in Rwanda,Murigande said. "The UN watched unmoved, and no action was ever taken."

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