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United States unilaterally determines to be incompatible with its
security and defense authority and responsibility.
In addition,
access to the freely associated states by military forces of any
third country will be denied, except as agreed to by the United
States, and the United States pledges to defend and protect the
Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands as the
United States and its own citizens are defended.
Subordinate
agreements referred to in Article II of Title Three provide for
continued United States use,
for thirty years, of the civilian
contractor-operated Kwajalein Missile Range in the Marshall
Islands.
They also will regulate the status of United States
forces in the area.
Of special importance are the agreements, authorized by
Compact Section 354, which extend indefinitely the right of the
United States to deny entry into the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands to the military forces of other
nations and the responsibility of the United States to defend the
Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands from
external threat to their freedom and territorial integrity.
I can
assure the Congress that the United States defense and land use
requirements were carefully considered throughout many years of
negotiation, are critical to the maintenance of our strategic
position in the Pacific and are a vital component in our ability
to guarantee the preservation of regional stability and peace.
Title Four of ‘the Compact describes the administrative