- 2 - General Assembly. 2. The Trusteeship Council should be composed of persons of special competence designated (a) on each by states and international mixed commissions administering trust territories and (b) on each by an equal number of other states named for three-year periods by the General Assembly. Decisions by the Trusteeship Council should be taken by a majority of those present and voting. The Trusteeship Council should make arrangements for representatives of appropriate specialized organization or agencies to participate in its deliberations, their votes being recorded but not counted. 3. There should be attached to the Trusteeship Council a permanent secretariat of experts, with adequate fact-finding powers, to provide technical advice and assistance to the Trusteeship Council and to the General Assembly upon its request. 4. The administering authority over each trust territory should be a state or a specially constituted international mixed commission. Each territory admin- istered under a mandate, except the islands formerly administered by Japan and mandated territories which shall have achieved their trusteeship arrangements by administered under these trusteeship arrangements by the state which now administers it, unless in a particular case or cases some other disposal is made by the Organization. 5. Each territory should be governed in accord- ance with a territorial charter, which should constitute the fundamental law of the territory defining the rights and obligations of the parties concerned. Each charter should be so drawn as to take into account the special circumstances of each territory. Section C POWERS 1. The General Assembly should be empowered: a. to call for and to act upon the reports, recommendations, and decisions of the Trusteeship |