H. S. J. Resolution In the House of Representatives J. Resolution In the United States Senate JOINT RESOLUTION To approve the "Compact of Free Association", and for other purposes. Whereas the United States is the administering authority of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under the terms of the Trusteeship Agreement for the former Japanese Mandated Islands entered into by the United States with the Security Council of the United Nations on April 2, 1947, and approved by the United States on July 18, 1947; and Whereas the United States, in accordance with the Trusteeship Agreement, the Charter of the United Nations and the objectives of the international Trusteeship system, has promoted the development of the peoples of the Trust Territory toward self-government or independence as appropriate to the particular circumstances of the Trust Territory and its peoples and the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned; and Whereas the United States, in response to the desires of the peoples of the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands expressed through their freely-elected representatives and by the official pronouncements and enactments of their lawfully constituted governments, and in consideration of its own obligations under the Trusteeship Agreement to promote self-determination, entered into political status negotiations with representatives of the peoples of the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands; and Whereas these negotiations resulted in the "Compact of free Association" which, together with its related agreements, was signed by the United States and by the the Federated States of © Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands on October 1, 1982 and June 25, 1983, respectively; and Whereas the Compact of Free Association was approved by . majorities of the peoples of the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands in United Nations-observed plebiscites conducted on June 21, 1983 and September 7, 1983, respectively; an