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SHE PRESIDENT’SPERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
FOR MICRONESIAN STATUS NEGOTIATIONS
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20240
November 13,
Ms.
Nancy Snyder
Deputy Administrator for Family
Nutrition Programs
Food and Nutrition Service
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meeting today at the office of Mrs. Ruth Van Cleve,
Director of the Office of Territorial Affairs,
Department of the Interior, with Mr. Del Castillo.
He suggested that it- would be useful for your
Department's purposes if I were to describe my
perspective on_USDA's foodprograms in the Trust
Territory of thePacific Islands(TTPI).
This letter
complies with that request and is intended for your
Department":s ‘Planning purposes only.
“y must“begin by ‘emphasizing the distinction
between my functions and interests and those of the
Department of the Interior.
While the Department
of the Interior and the High Commissioner are
responsible
for the administration of the TIPI,
mine is an interagency office which is charged by
the President with responsibility for negotiating
a new political status’ to replace the United Nations
Trusteeship under which the United States has adminis-—
tered the TTPI since shortly after World War IT.)
The President has stated that it is the Administration’s
objective to terminatethe Trusteeship in 1981-
The negotiations which I have been conducting
for the past year have achieved agreement in principle
with political status commissions representing three
separate and distinct entities within the TTPI, the
Marshall Islands, Palau and the future Federated
States of Micronesia, embracing the districts of
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