APPENDIX IV Page 19 First three lines should read: “Guam is currently refining a draft commonwealth proposal which it intends to submit to the Congress.“ No action will be taken during the remainder of 1984, and the final draft may not be ready in 1985. Page 21 It should be noted that Assistant Secretary Richard T. Montoya, the President's Special Representative, is currently negotiating with the NMI government on the future level of Covenant funding. Chapter 4 Page 25 . . wet ; bas ba aan Pal ate pt CUTSSOeT ere aT a oe -5 a ‘ paid J nL eee ha emt . tal hd Z re a og toes = Shalt Beads en a ey Oe r ‘sia APPENDIX IV * 1 bE ONE RE eo h wa eee ee hs PS eee 3 ; Negotiations between the United States and Palau are complete and the agreement was signed by the U.S. and Palau representatives in May, 1984. Palau is now attempting to resolve internal constitutional problems in the formal adoption of the document by the legislature and in a plebescite. An election held September 4, 1984, failed to obtain 75 percent approval of a constitutional amendment and was not recognized by the United States. The concept of U.N. “supervision”, which appears in the first and the last lines on this page, is not entirely apropos. It would be preferable if on the first line, “under U.N. supervision" were deleted and “pursuant to an agreement with the U.N." were substituted. On the last lines, it would be well to delete “international supervision of the U.N." and substitute “U.N. international." Page 26 At the end of the first full paragraph, you my wish to add: “In addition, the Trusteeship Agreement was thereby entered into with the Security Council of the United Nations, where the U.S. possesses a veto, instead of with the General Assembly, where it does not. The General Assembly had hitherto been the U.N.‘'s contracting party for trusteeship agreements." This veto consideration was at least as important a rationale for the strategic trust as were the others stated. In the second full paragraph, first sentence, because the territories are not “sovereign entities” in the context of international law, it would be desirable to delete “a sovereign entity, subject” and insert “subject to U.S. sovereignty or”. At the end of the second full paragraph, you may wish to add: “Rather, the . Trusteeship Agreement commits the U.S. to promoting “self-government or independence”, as the peoples concerned might elect. That could include becoming a U.S. territory, independence, or the type of arrangement defined in the Compact.” 67 y6002 14