Representatives of 50 countries signed the UN Charter, creating a new international organization after two world wars. The Charter affirmed sovereign equality and self-determination, while also establishing a trusteeship framework that carried forward some League of Nations mandates. Colonized peoples were not represented as equal sovereign states at the conference, but later used the Charter’s language to press for decolonization.
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