Ambassador Peter R.
June 20, 1980
Rosenblatz
Page Three
Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia
shall not be used by any third country, for
military purposes, without the express consent of
the Government of Palau, the Marshall Islands, or
the Federated States of Micronesia, respectively.
Section 415
The Government of the United States
shall determine, after consultation with the
Government of Palau, the Marshall Islands or the
Federated States of Micronesia, what uses of the
territory, territorial waters or airspace of Palau,
the Marshall
Islands
or the Federated States of
Micronesia, respectively, shall be deemed encompassed by sections 4llf{a) or 412."
D.
Add anew section
"Section
218
that
reads:
218
Approval of this Compact by the Government
of the United States shall constitute a commitment
and pledge of the full faith and credit of the
United States for the payment, as well as an authorization for appropriation, of the full amounts of
annual grant assistance specified in sections 2ll{a),
213 and 217.
This commitment and pledge cons“itutes
an obligation of the United States enforceable in
the United States District Court for the District
of Hawaii and the United States District Court for
the District of Columbia."
E.
Eliminate the explicit penalty for altering the
political status from free association to independence
by substituting the number "100" for the number "50" 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 free
association political status and choose a political
status of independence.
("t is understood that federal
programs would not continue under such an eventuality.)