United Nations list of non-self-governing territories

UN General Assembly Resolution 66 (I)
United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/66 (I) dated 14 January 1946
Date	14 December 1946
Meeting no.	Sixty fourth
Code	A/RES/66(1) (Document)
Subject	Transmission of information under Article 73e of the Charter [relating to non-self-governing territories]
Result	Adopted

Chapter XI of the United Nations Charter defines a non-self-governing territory (NSGT) as a territory "whose people have not yet attained a full measure of self-government". In practice, an NSGT is a territory deemed by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to be "non-self-governing". Chapter XI of the UN Charter also includes a "Declaration on Non-Self-Governing Territories" that the interests of the occupants of dependent territories are paramount and requires member states of the United Nations in control of such territories to submit annual information reports concerning the development of those territories. Since 1946, the UNGA has maintained a list of non-self governing territories under member states' control. Since its inception, dozens of territories have been removed from the list, typically when they attained independence or internal self-government, while other territories have been added as new administering countries joined the United Nations or the General Assembly reassessed the status of certain territories.

Since 1961 the list has been maintained by the Special Committee on Decolonization.