End of Trusteeship over Western Samoa Requested in Fourth Committee

Tributes on Western Samoa's forthcoming independence on 1 January 1962 were paid this afternoon in the General Assembly's Fourth (Trusteeship) Committee. The tributes were paid when the Committee took up the question of the future of the trust territory administered by New Zealand.
As he addressed the meeting is Fiame Mataafa Foumuina Mulinu'u II (left at desk), Prime Minister of Western Samoa. Seated beside him is Ambassador N.A.J. de Voogd, of the Netherlands.