Point One:

The Government of the Marshall

Islands would undertake the obligation not to
permit or tolerate that its territory, territorial waters or airspace be used or be made
available for use by any third country for

military purposes,

without the express consent

of the Government of the United States.

Point Two:
The Government of the United
States would undertake to guarantee the terri-~
torial integrity of the Marshall Islands, and
guarantee that the territory, territorial

waters or airspace of the Marshall Islands
shall net be used by third countries, for

military purposes, without the express consent
of the Government of the Marshall Islands.

Point Three:
The contemplated authorization
of specified levels of economic assistance set
forth in sections 211(a)(2), 213 and 217 of the
initialled Compact of Free Association, dated

January 14,

1980,

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will be backed up by explicit

statutory language committing the full faith
and credit of the Government of the United

States,

including the full panoply of rights

to the judicial enforcement thereof.

Point Four:
The explicit penalty for altering
the political status from free association to
independence would be eliminated from the
initialled Compact of Free Association,

by

substituting the number "100" for the number

"SO" in section 453(b) so that levels of economic assistance specified in the initialled
Compact would continue without diminution in
the event the Marshall Islands should exercise

its right of unilateral termination of the

political status of free association and choose

a political status of independence.

Federal

programs would not continue under such an
eventuality.

It was understood that the obligations contained in Points One

and Two should have no time limitation.
3.

The present memorandum contains a preliminary

discussion of the validity and legal effects of Points One and
(infra,

Section II)

and a proposal

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Two under international law

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