complaint,called a petition, English and French, as U.N. is available to you, in both document T/COM.10/L.301. We bring this lawsuit to your attention because it involves in part the failure of the United States to meet its obligations to the Bikinians under the Trusteeship Agreement. Let me describe it briefly. The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides that the Government cannot take private property without paying its owners "just compensation". Bikinians' The first two counts of the lawsuit against the United States allege violation of this Constitutional provision. In essence, they claim.that the United States has taken, and continues to take, Bikini Atoll without vroviding just compensation to the people. The first count also seeks compensation for the complete destruction of three islands at Bikini Atoll by the 1954 "Bravo" shot, the second of the U.S. hydrogen bomb tests, which was 750 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb and was the largest single explosion ever detonated by the United States. Since the allegations in these counts relate to violations of U.S. Council law, they involve matters with which this is only indirectly concerned. We mention these claims here only for background purposes. However, the third count of the petition does a matter of great importance to this body. involve That count contends that the United States has breached fiduciary obligations owed 10