-8- aspects of the free association relationship including provisions for the approval and effective date of the Compact, its amendment, and the settlement of disputes not arising out of Title Three. This title provides that the Compact, and therefore the free association relationship, may be terminated at any time by the United States or by Government of the Federated States of Micronesia or the Marshall Islands, respectively. Should such termination occur before the fifteenth anniversary of the Compact's effective date, the economic assistance prescribed in Title Two would continue with only minor modifications for the duration of the Compact's original fifteen-year term, as would _£ull United States security and defense authority. The Gompact has been finally approved, as is required by its terms, by the Government of the Federated States of Micronesia and the Government of the Marshall Islands in accordance with their respective constitutional processes. These approvals certify that there remain no constitutional or legal impediments under the domestic law of those jurisdictions to the validity of the acceptance of the Compact by those states. These approvals also clear the way for formal consideration and approval of the Compact by the Congress as respects the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. Since certain provisions of the Palauan constitution and the negotiated security and defense provisions of the Compact have not been reconciled, as stated above, thus precluding the Government of Palau from approving the Compact, will not now request the Congress to approve the Compact for I