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 61 STAT.] U. N .-TRUSTEESHIP FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS-JULY 18, 1947 resources; encourage the development of fisheries, agriculture, and industries; protect the inhabitants against the loss of their lands and resources; and improve the means of transportation and communication; 3. promote the social advancement of the inhabitants, and to this end shall protect the rights and fundamental freedoms of all ele- ments of the population without discrimination; protect the health of the inhabitants; control the traffic in arms and ammunition, opium and other dangerous drugs, and alcohol and other spirituous beverages; and institute such other regulations as may be necessary to protect the inhabitants against social abuses; and 4. promote the educational advancement of the inhabitants, and to this end shall take steps toward the establishment of a general system of elementary education; facilitate the vocational and cultural ad- vancement of the population; and shall encourage qualified students to pursue higher education, including training on the professional level. ARTICLE 7 In discharging its obligations under Article 76 (c), of the Charter, the administering authority shall guarantee to the inhabitants of the trust territory freedom of conscience, and, subject only to the require- ments of public order and security, freedom of speech, of the press, and of assembly; freedom of worship, and of religious teaching; and freedom of migration and movement. ARTICLE 8 1. In discharging its obligations under Article 76 (d) of the Charter, as defined by Article 83 (2) of the Charter, the administering author- ity, subject to the requirements of security, and the obligation to promote the advancement of the inhabitants, shall accord to nationals of each Member of the United Nations and to companies and associa- tions organized in conformity with the laws of such Member, treat- ment in the trust territory no less favourable than that accorded therein to nationals, companies and associations of any other United Nation except the administering authority. 2. The administering authority shall ensure equal treatment to the Members of the United Nations and their nationals in the administration of justice. 3. Nothing in this Article shall be so construed as to accord traffic rights to aircraft flying into and out of the trust territory. Such rights shall be subject to agreement between the administering authority and the state whose nationality such aircraft possesses. 4. The administering authority may negotiate and conclude com- mercial and other treaties and agreements with Members of the United Nations and other states, designed to attain for the inhabit- ants of the trust territory treatment by the Members of the United Nations and other states no less favourable than that granted by them 3303 Social adlvancement. Educational ad- vancement. Guarantee of desig- nated freedoms. 59 Stat. 1049. TrIeatmlellt to be ac- coi ded designated na- tionals, itt. 59 Sltt. Il94, 105). Traffic rights of air- craft. Negotiation of trea- ties, etc.

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