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Revised June

June 15,

MEMORANDUM TO HR.

23,

i980

1980

COPAKEN

Legal Aspects of a Proposal to Amend the

Compact of Free Association_

I.

Introduction
1.

The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

of the United States Senate recentiy held preliminary hearings
on the Compact of Free Association,

the Governments of the Marshall
on January 14,

which was

Islands

initialled by

and the United States

1980.

It is our understanding “hat at those hearings,
Chairman of the Committee,

Sénators J.

Senator Nenry M.

Bennett Johnston and

their concern that,

Janes A.

Jackson,

ihe

and

McClure expressed

pursuant to s-:ction 354 of the Compact,

the right of denial established by section 311(b})(2) would
terminate on the 15th anniversary of the effective date of
the Compact (or at the end of the extension provided for by
section 231),

unless prolonged b- mutual agreement.

2.
Bierne,
the

In subsequent conversations with Mr.

the Committee's Legal Counsel,

concerns

raised by

Senators

James

it was suggested that

Cackson,

Johnston and McClure,

as well as certain preexisting cencerns of the Government of

the Marshall Islands, might be solved by means of an amendment
to the Compact,

embodying the following Four Points:

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