One of the features of the approved resolution was the establishment of a UN advisory council of representatives of three countries: Egypt, the Philippines, and Colombia. The function of the council was to oversee and advise the Italian administration. India and Pakistan were instrumental in inserting the role of the advisory council into the constitutional principles that governed the trusteeship order and insisted that the council maintain permanent offices in Mogadishu. This Pakistani-Indian foresight would well serve the SYL movement.

Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, loc. 266