MEMORANDUM FOR:
Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Rozanne L. Riccway, Chairman
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to claims arising from the U.S. nuclear weapons testing
program in the Northern Marshali Islands.
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Tn Section 177 of the Compact of Free Association,
initialed by Ambassador Peter Rosenblatt and Marshall
islands
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President Amata Kabua on January 14, 1980 in Kona,
the United States Government (USG) accepts tne
resconsibility for compensation for loss or damage to
property and verson owing to citizens of the Marshall
Tsilands,
the
Federated
States of
Micronesia
(FSM),
or Palau
as a result of the USG nuclear testing program in the
Northern Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958.
See
Appendix A,
All known past and present
claims
should be
a Separate agreement subordinate to the Compact.
resolved in
This
agreement should be negotiated on a government-to-government
basis with the Marshall Islands Government (MIG) on behalf
of its citizens.
Representatives of the affected peoples
shall be allowed to participate in the negotiations.
The
separate agreement should include procedures: whereby the MIG
shall present to the USG any future claims of its citizens
deriving from presently unknown effects of exposure to
radiation.
A Nuclear Claims Delegation (NCD) composed of
Single members from the Office for Micronesian Status
Negotiations
(OMSN)
(chair) and the Departments of State,
Defense, Interior, Energy and Justice would be established
to negotiate this agreement with the MIG on behalf of its
affected citizens.
The NCD will be disestablished after the
formal ratification of this agreement.
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