APPENDIX IV
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First three lines should read: “Guam is currently refining a draft
commonwealth proposal which it intends to submit to the Congress.“ No action
will be taken during the remainder of 1984, and the final draft may not be
ready in 1985.
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It should be noted that Assistant Secretary Richard T. Montoya, the
President's Special Representative, is currently negotiating with the NMI
government on the future level of Covenant funding.
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Negotiations between the United States and Palau are complete and the
agreement was signed by the U.S. and Palau representatives in May,
1984.
Palau is now attempting to resolve internal constitutional problems in the
formal adoption of the document by the legislature and in a plebescite. An
election held September 4, 1984, failed to obtain 75 percent approval of a
constitutional amendment and was not recognized by the United States.
The concept of U.N. “supervision”, which appears in the first and the last
lines on this page, is not entirely apropos.
It would be preferable if on the
first line, “under U.N. supervision" were deleted and “pursuant to an
agreement with the U.N." were substituted.
On the last lines, it would be
well to delete “international supervision of the U.N." and substitute “U.N.
international."
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At the end of the first full paragraph, you my wish to add:
“In addition, the
Trusteeship Agreement was thereby entered into with the Security Council of
the United Nations, where the U.S. possesses a veto, instead of with the
General Assembly, where it does not.
The General Assembly had hitherto been
the U.N.‘'s contracting party for trusteeship agreements." This veto
consideration was at least as important a rationale for the strategic trust as
were the others stated.
In the second full paragraph, first sentence, because the territories are not
“sovereign entities” in the context of international law, it would be
desirable to delete “a sovereign entity, subject” and insert “subject to U.S.
sovereignty or”.
At the end of the second full paragraph, you may wish to add:
“Rather, the .
Trusteeship Agreement commits the U.S. to promoting “self-government or
independence”, as the peoples concerned might elect.
That could include
becoming a U.S. territory, independence, or the type of arrangement defined in
the Compact.”
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