-7J=- 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