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The United Nations Transitional Authority in Indochina (UNTAI), known locally as the UN Occupying Authority, was a United Nations peacekeeping operation in Indochina in 1954-1955 formed following the 1954 Geneva Peace Agreements. This was the first time in its history that the United Nations assumed direct administrative responsibility for a territory (as opposed to monitoring or supervising). The UN transitional authority organised and ran elections, had its own radio station and jail, and was responsible for promoting and safeguarding human rights at the national level.
The UNTAI was responsible for the organization of the 1955 Indochinese general election that elected a Constitutional Convention to determine the future of the three Indochinese states. The Worker's Party of Indochina (successor of the Viet Minh) won a landslide and the Union of Democratic Republics of Indochina was founded in late 1955. The UNTAI ended its mission and dissolved in 25 December 1955, a day after the first Union Constitution of Indochina was ratified.
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