Trusteeship Council report, A/4404
The report covers 7 August 1959–30 June 1960. This extract discusses the constitutional development and administrative arrangements of the two parts of the territory. Find the passage on PDF page 107.
Research / Primary records
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Historical sources for examining the Southern Cameroons question. Open the full record alongside each extract.
About these extracts
The red lines and inset covers are annotations on the supplied images. They are not part of the original documents. The Northern Cameroons case concerns a separate territory and proceeding; it is not a judgment deciding the Southern Cameroons question.
Resolution 1608 (XV), paragraphs 4 and 5
Adopted on 21 April 1961. Read the termination provisions in paragraph 4 together with the invitation to urgent discussions in paragraph 5.
Northern Cameroons: the parties to the case
Page 16 of the ICJ judgment identifies the Republic of Cameroon and the United Kingdom as the parties. The case concerned Northern Cameroons.
Northern Cameroons: the Court’s judicial function
Page 29 discusses the distinction between bringing a case and the Court’s decision about whether it can exercise its judicial function. This judgment is dated 2 December 1963.
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The Southern Cameroons Question
The people, the institutions, the 1961 documentary record and a proposed path toward a durable settlement.