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The eleventh special session of the Trusteeship Council was 'Held at UN Headquarters in New York on April 10, 1961, to consider the agenda item: report of the UN plebiscite commissioner for the supervision of plebiscites in the southern and northern parts of the trust territory of the Cameroons under United Kingdom administration. Introducing the report, Mr. Abdoh, the UN plebiscite commissioner, noted that the report included all the pertinent facts about the organization, conduct, and results of the plebiscites. In order that the General Assembly would have ample time to examine the report during the resumed fifteenth session, the Council did not discuss it but limited itself to transmitting the report to the General Assembly, as provided in a draft resolution sponsored by Bolivia and India and approved by the Council. After adopting its draft report to the General Assembly on the item, the Council set June 1, 1961, as the tentative opening date for its 27th session.

Upon its return in December 1952 to United Nations headquarters, the Visiting Mission to Trust Territories in West Africa, 1952, prepared its report to the Trusteeship Council. Departing fom New York on August 18, 1952, the mission travelled through Togoland under United Kingdom administration, Togoland under French administration, the Cameroons under French administration, and the Cameroons under United Kingdom administration, and returned to New York on December 5, after visits to London and Paris. The mission, arrangements for which had been decided upon at the tenth session of the Trusteeship Council in March 1952, divided its report into five selfcontained parts, one on each of the four trust territories visited and one on procedures of visiting missions. At meetings of the mission on March 4 and 5, 1953, these five reports were approved unanimously and submitted to the Council in accordance with the mission's terms of reference. These reports were to be considered by the Trusteeship Council at its twelfth session, scheduled to begin on June 16, 1953.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has elected Mr. Max Petitpierre and Mr. Victor Umbricht to be members of the Presidential Council for 1971 and 1972 as from 1 July 1971; they will sit with the President and the two Vice-Presidents mentioned above, who are ex-officio members of the Council.

The tenth session of the Trusteeship Council met in New York from February 27 to April 1, 1952. President of the session was Sir Alan Burns (United Kingdom) and throughout all meetings the representative of Italy sat as a nonmember of the Trusteeship Council. During the session, the Council considered the annual reports of the administering authorities for the trust territories of Western Samoa, New Guinea, Nauru, and the Pacific Islands, and petitions from trust territories in Africa and from New Guinea, having decided to defer the reports of the visiting missions to east Africa until the eleventh session. The question of Chinese representation brought up by the representative of the Soviet Union was also deferred

This issue covers the work of the Security Council from its 531st meeting on January 31, 1951 to its 540th meeting on April 2, 1951. Following in alphabetical order the presidents were the representatives of Ecuador (Quevedo), France (Lacoste), India (Rau) and Netherlands (Balluseck). Sir Benegal Rauceded the presidency to D. von Balluseck during March as the India-Pakistan question was under discussion in the Council during that month. New members welcomed at the meeting on January 31 were Carlos Muniz (Brazil), D. von Balluseck (Netherlands) and Selim Sarper (Turkey) replacing the delegates of Norway, Egypt and Cuba. During discussion of die India-Pakistan question, Sir Zafrulla Khan (Pakistan) was invited to the Council table.

Four reports on administration of West African trust territories during 1947, which had been deferred from the third session, were before the Council for consideration. In addition to these reports, covering Togoland and the Cameroons under British and French administration, a report on Western Samoa for the year ending March 31, 1948, had also been submitted. Following a new procedure suggested by its president, the Council reports were presented by the special representatives of the administering authorities, and members submitted both written and oral questions. Following general discussion a Drafting Committee on Annual Reports, consisting of representatives of all Council members, was appointed to prepare the Council's report on each territory.

This issue covers the work of the Security Council from the 480th meeting on August 1, 1950 to the 502d meeting on September 18, 1950. On August 1, 1950, the Soviet representative (Yakov Malik) returned to the Council meetings and participated in all of the following sessions, serving as president during the month of August.

This issue covers the work of the Security Council from its 573d meeting on February 6 to its 576th meeting on April 14, 1951. During February the President of the Council was the representative of Greece (Kyrou) and during April, the representative of Pakistan (Bokhari). No meetings were held during March during which the representative of the Netherlands (von Balluseck) was President.

This issue covers the work of the Security Council from the 471st meeting on April 12, 1950to the 478th meeting on July 31, 1950. During this period the representative of the Soviet Union did not participate in the meetings of the Council, although it was announced at the end of July that he would take over his presidency for the month of August.

The fifth session of the Trusteeship Council was held at Lake Success from June 15 to July 22, 1949, with Roger Garreau (France), president of the Council, presiding, and Luis Padilla Nervo (Mexico) serving as vice-president. The president was elected by a vote of 9 to 3 and the vice-president by a vote of 10 to 2 on June 16.

This issue covers the work of the Security Council from the 132nd meeting on April 30, 1947, to the 170th meeting on July 29, 1947.The Greek QuestionThe Security Council discussed the Greek question twice in the period under review, from May 12 to May 22, 1947, and from June 27 to July 29, 1947.On May 8, 1947, the Soviet representative (Gromyko) requested that the Greek question again be placed on the agenda. In addition to Mr. Gromyko's request, the Council had, when the matter was taken up on May 12, communications from the Chairman of the Commission of Investigation Concerning Greek Frontier Incidents and from the Yugoslav, Albanian, and Bulgarian liaison officers to the Commission. The burden of the letters from the liaison officers was 1) that their respective countries had participated loyally in the work of facilitating the investigation; 2) that the action of the Commission in appointing a Subsidiary Group to remain in Greece, with the terms of reference as defined, was beyond its competence until its report had been acted upon by the Security Council; and 3) that the three governments would therefore not participate in the activities of the Subsidiary Group. The Chairman of the Commission reported that the Commission had accepted the view of the French representative (Daux) that it did not have the competence to answer these notes from the liaison officers and that the whole matter should be referred to the Security Council.

The Trusteeship Council met at Lake Success for its fifth session on June 15, 1949 to consider a thirteen point agenda: 1) adoption of the agenda; 2) report of the Secretary-General on credentials; 3) election of a president and vice-president; 4) examination of annual reports on the administration of trust territories — New Guinea, Nauru and the first report on the Pacific Islands; 5) examination of petitions; 6) arrangements for the visiting mission to trust territories in West Africa; 8) revision of the provisional questionnaire; 9) revision of the rules of procedure; 10) administrative unions affecting trust territories; 11) educational advancement in trust territories; 12) adoption of the report of the Council to the General Assembly; and 13) adoption of a report to the Security Council.

At the 845th meeting of the Security Council, held at headquarters on January 30, 1959, a discussion of the Palestine question in terms of a letter dated January 26, from the permanent representative of Israel to the UN, began with statements by the parties concerned. The special meeting had been convened by die President of the Council in response to a request from the government of Israel.

The sixth special session of the Trusteeship Council was held at Headquarters from December 10, 1956, through January 31 1957.The future of the trust territory of Togoland under French administration: The sixth special session of the Council had been convened at the request of the French government to consider the results of the referendum which had been held in Togoland under French administration on October 28, 1956.

This issue covers the work of the Security Council from the 429th meeting on June 24,1949 to the 448th meeting on September 27, 1949.At ten meetings, the Security Council considered the question of admission of new members to the United Nations in connection with two items on its agenda: the application for admission of the government of Nepal, and reconsideration of previous applications for membership.