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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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