Trusteeship Council Elects President, Vice-President of Seventy-Fourth Session, Adopts Provisional Agenda

Opening its seventy-fourth session today, the Trusteeship Council elected James Kariuki (United Kingdom) as its President and Nathalie Broadhurst Estival (France) as its Vice-President.

Both were elected by acclamation.  The Council also adopted its agenda (document T/1999) by acclamation.

The Trusteeship Council is a principal organ of the United Nations, created to administer 11 Trust Territories placed under the Organization’s care at its founding in 1945.  It suspended operations when the last United Nations Trust Territory, Palau, attained independence, in 1994.  By a resolution adopted on 25 May 1994, the Council amended its rules of procedure to drop the obligation to meet annually and agreed to meet as occasion required — by its decision or the decision of its President, or at the request of a majority of its members or the General Assembly or the Security Council.  The organ last met on 7 December 2021.

Membership of the Council now comprises the five permanent members of the Security Council — China, France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom and the United States.  The organ’s future role is under consideration as part of the broader UN and Security Council reform.

The Trusteeship Council will meet again in December 2025 at a date and time to be determined at least 30 days in advance.