Where can I get information on petitions and resolutions by the United Nations Trusteeship Council concerning territories administered under British colonial territories?

Resolutions presented to the Trusteeship Council are available from the United Nations Digital Library, the online catalogue of UN documents and publications, under the symbol series T/RES/--.

Petitions are available in hard copies from the Dag Hammarskjöld UN Library in New York under the symbol series: T/PET/--. Petitions issued after 1993 are available in full text from the Library catalogue.

Symbol prefixes of petitions of territories under British Administration are as follows:

• T/PET.2/-- Petitions Concerning Tanganyika under British Administration 1947-1962
• T/PET.4 & 5-- Petitions concerning the Cameroons under British and French administration 1952-1959
• T/PET.4 -- Petitions concerning the Cameroons under British administration 1947-1961
• T/PET.5 -- Petitions concerning the Cameroons under French administration 1948-1959
• T/PET.6 -- Petitions concerning Togoland under British administration 1947-1956
• T/PET.9 -- Petitions concerning Nauru under the joint administration of Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom 1949-1968

More information on the United Nations Document Symbols is available in ST/LIB/SER.B/5/Rev.5.

The Index to the Proceedings of the Trusteeship Council and the Yearbook of the United Nations are good research resources to identify individual petitions and related materials.

Since pre-1993 document are not digitized, researchers outside the UN Headquarters can visit their local UN depository libraries to conduct their research from print collections.