TRUSTEESHIP Council Official RECORDS

TRUSTEESHIP COUNCil OFFICIAl RECORDS

SEVENTEENTH SPECIAL SESSION 20-26 November 1986 FIFTY-FOURTH SESSION 11 May-16 December 1987 EIGHTEENTH SPECIAL SESSION 13 August 1987

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UNITED NATIONS TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL OFFICIAL RECORDS

SEVENTEENTH SPECIAL SESSION 20-26 November 1986 FIFTY-FOURTH SESSION 11 May-16 December 1987 EIGHTEENTH SPECIAL SESSION 13 August 1987

SESSIONAL FASCICLE

UNITED NATIONS New York, 1989 INTRODUCTORY NOTE

The official records of the Trusteeship Council include the records of the meetings, issued in final offset, the annexes to those records and the supplements. The present volume contains prefatory matter and the annexes of the seventeenth special session, the fifty-fourth session and the eighteenth special session.

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Symbols of United Nations documents are composed of capital letters combined with figures. Mention of such a symbol indicates a reference to a United Nations document. CONTENTS

Seventeenth special session

Agenda • . • • • • . • • . • . • • . . • • • . • • • . . . . . • • . • . • . . • . • • . • . . • . • • • • • . • • . . • . • • . • . . • . • . • • 2

Contents of the meetings . . • . . • . . • . . • • • • . • • . . . . • • . • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 5

List of delegations . . • . • • • . • • . • . . . . • • . . . • • . . . • ...... • • • . . . • • . • . • • . • • . • . . . • • 7

Officers of the Council 9

Check~list of documents 10

Symbol

T/1904 Letter dated 11 November 1986 from the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General ..••..•....•.••.•...... •....•• 12

Fifty-fourth session

Agenda . • • • • • . • . • • • . • • . • • ...... • . • . . • . . . . . • . • . . • . • . • • . • . • • • . • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 14

Contents of the meetings ...... 27

List of delegations ...... 34

Officers of the Council 37

Check-list of documents 38

Annexes

Symbol

T/1902 Letter dated 30 September 1986 from the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General •.••.•.•.•..•.••...••..•...•.••.••.••.•• 42

T/1903 Letter dated 23 October 1986 from the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General •••••.••.•....••.•.••.....•....•.••••..• 42

T/1910 Letter dated 4 May 1987 from the Acting Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General •..•.•.••.•••.••.•••..•...•..•••.....••. 43

-iii- CONTENTS (continued)

T/1911 and Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for A.dd.l and inhabitants of Trust Territories: Report of the A.dd.l/ Secretary-General ...... 44 Corr.1

T/1912 Dissemination of information on the United Nations and the International Trusteeship System in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: report of the Secretary-General •.••••••••••••• 45

T/1917 Letter dated 8 October 1987 from the Permanent Representative of the United States of .America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General . . • • • • . • • • • . • • • • • • • • • . • • • • . • • . . . • • • . • . . • • • • 48

T/L.l260 Report of the Drafting Committee on the Trust Territory of the and Pacific Islands ...... 52 Corr.l

Eighteenth special session

Agenda • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • . . • • . . • . • • . . • • • . • • . • . • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • . • . • . • • • . • • • • • • . • 54

Contents of the meetings ...... 58

List of delegations ...... 59

Officers of the Council ...... 60 Check-list of documents ...... 61

Annexes

Symbol

T/1914 Letter dated 24 July 1987 from the Deputy Representative of the United States of .America on the Security Council addressed to the President of the Trusteeship Council •••••••.••••••••••••••.• 63

T/1915 Letter dated 7 August 1987 from the Acting Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General ••••.••••.•••••••••••• 63

-iv- SEVENTEENTH SPECIAL SESSION

-1- AGENDA

adopted by the Council at its 1622nd meeting, on 20 November 1986

1. Adoption of the agenda.

2. Report of the Secretary-General on credentials.

3. Election of the Vice-President.

4. Letter dated 11 November 1986 from the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, containing a request for a special session of the Trusteeship Council to consider the dispatch of a mission to observe a plebiscite on 2 December 1986 in Palau on the Compact of Free Association.

5. Examination of petitions listed in the annex to the agenda [see below] and related to item 4 of the agenda.

List of communications and petitions concerning the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands received by the Secretary-General and circulated to members of the Trusteeship Council

Observations by the Administering Petitioner Symbol Authority

Airai State Legislature T/COM.l0/L.365 Not required

[A decision was taken on T/COM.10/L.366 at the fifty-fourth session]

Anne E. Simon, Staff Attorney, T/COM.10/L.367 Not required Center for Constitutional Rights

House of Delegates, Second T/COM.10/L.368 Not required Olbiil Era Kelulau (Palau National Congress)

J. Roman Bedor T/PET.l0/462 Not required

David Scott-Holte T/PET.l0/463 Required

Irene M. Giles T/PET.l0/464 Required

Christine A. Higgott, T/PET.l0/465 Required Bristol Greenham Women's Support Group

-2- Observations by the Administering Petitioner Symbol Authority

Trudi Pilkington T/PET.l0/466 Required and nine others

Beverly J. T. Delong T/PET.l0/467 Required

Janet Csoti T/PET.l0/468 Required

E. Williams T/PET.l0/469 Required

Jean Johnson T/PET.l0/470 Required

S. Rawson, T/PET.l0/471 Required Eastern Suburbs Peace Group

0. Bracey T/PET.l0/472 Required

Tony Newman T/PET.l0/473 Required

S. A. White T/PET.l0/474 Required

M. Sayers T/PET.l0/475 Required

[A decision was taken on T/PET.l0/476 at the fifty-fourth session]

Graham Stringer, T/PET.l0/477 Required Office of the Leader of the Council, City of Manchester

Elizabeth Rouse, T/PET.l0/478 Required Ideas Centre, Resource Centre for International Co-operation

J. T. McNally, T/PET.l0/479 Required Chief Executive and Administrative Officer, Clydebank District Council

F. Rodman T/PET.l0/480 Required

Werkgroep Pacific T/PET.l0/481 Required

Richard Eng T/PET.l0/482 Required

Members of the European T/PET.l0/483 Required Parliament

-3- Observations by the Administering Petitioner Symbol Authority

Susan Quass, Resource T/PET.l0/484 Required Co-ordinator for Asia and Pacific, United Methodist Office for the United Nations

James Orak for the Palauan T/PET.l0/485 Required Club of Portland

B. Mackenzie T/PET.l0/486 Required

Marion Cole, Braintree and T/PET.l0/487 Required District United Nations International Year of Peace Group

Takato Yamamoto T/PET.l0/488 Required

Andrew Wells T/PET.l0/489 Required

Alan H. Brett T/PET.l0/490 Required

Takako Harada T/PET.l0/491 Required

Judy Norton T/PET.l0/492 Required

Takeda Asako T/PET.l0/493 Required

Hirako Harada T/PET.l0/494 Required

-4- CONTENTS OF THE MEETINGS

Note: The number in brackets after the title of the item indicates the number of the item on the agenda.

1622nd (opening} meeting

Thursday, 20 November 1986, at 10.45 a.m.

Opening of the seventeenth special session

Adoption of the agenda [1]

Report of the Secretary-General on credentials [2]

Letter dated 11 November 1986 from the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, containing a request for a special session of the Trusteeship Council to consider the dispatch of a mission to observe a plebiscite on 2 December 1986 in Palau on the Compact of Free Association [4]

Examination of petitions listed in the annex to the agenda and related to item 4 of the agenda [5)

Programme of work

1623rd meeting

Friday, 21 November 1986, at 10.50 a.m.

Election of the Vice-President [3]

Examination of petitions listed in the annex to the agenda and related to item 4 of the agenda [5] (continued}

1624th meeting

Wednesday, 26 November 1986, at 5.25 p.m.

Report of the Secretary-General on credentials [2] (concluded)

Examination of petitions listed in the annex to the agenda and related to item 4 of the agenda [5] (concluded)

-5- Letter dated 11 November 1986 from the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, containing a request for a special session of the Trusteeship Council to consider the dispatch of a mission to observe a plebiscite on 2 December 1986 in Palau on the Compact of Free Association '[4] (concluded)

Closure of the seventeenth special session

-6- LIST OF DELEGATIONS

Members of the Council

CHINA

[Did not participate in the session.]

FRANCE

Head of delegation

Mr. Laurent Rapin, First Counsellor, Permanent Mission

Representatives

Mr. Jean-Pierre Guinhut, Counsellor, Permanent Mission

Mr. Gilles Richard, Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS

Representative

Mr. Yevgeniy Georgiyevich Kutovoy, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations

Alternate Representative

Mr. Nikifor Mironovich Levchenko, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Senior Counsellor, Permanent Mission

Advisers

Mr. Ivan Yevgenjevich Kartashov, Counsellor, Permanent Mission

Mr. Mikhail M. Belyy, Counsellor, Permanent Mission

Expert

Mr. Vladimir Vasilyevich Ganchin, Third Secretary, Permanent Mission

UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

Representative

H.E. Mr. John A. Birch, C.M.G., Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations

-7- Alternate Representatives

The Hon. David Alwyn Gore-Booth, Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Permanent Mission

Mr. David M. Edwards, Counsellor and Legal Adviser, Permanent Mission

Mr. Hugh R. Mortimer, First Secretary, Permanent Mission

Ms. Helen de C. Taylor, First Secretary, Permanent Mission

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Representative

H.E. Miss Patricia M. Byrne, Ambassador, Deputy Representative on the Security Council, Permanent Mission

Alternate Representatives

Mr. Robert M. Immerman, Minister-Counsellor, Permanent Mission

Mr. Jeffrey J. Buczacki, Adviser, Permanent Mission

Mr. Robert B. Rosenstock, Counsellor, Permanent Mission

Specialized agencies

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

Mr. Gabriel S. Saab, Representative to the United Nations, Liaison Office with the United Nations, New York

Mr. Jean S. Camara, Deputy Representative to the United Nations, Liaison Office with the United Nations, New York

UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION

Mrs. Neh Dukuly-Tolbert, Senior Liaison Officer, Office for Liaison with the United Nations, New York

-8- WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Dr. Gururaj S. Mutalik, Director, Liaison Office with the United Nations, New York

Dr. Julien F. F. Bertaux, Senior Liaison Officer (Medical), Liaison Office with the United Nations, New York

* * * OFFICERS OF THE COUNCIL

President: Mr. Laurent Rapin (France)

Vice-President: H.E. Mr. John A. Birch, C.M.G., (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

-9- CHECK-LIST OF DOCUMENTS

Note: Listed below are the documents pertaining to the seventeenth special session of the Council. An asterisk after the symbol indicates that the document is published in the present fascicle.

Agenda Observations and Symbol Title or description item references

T/1904* Letter dated 11 November 1986 4 from the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

T/1905 Provisional agenda of the 1 Adopted by the Trusteeship and seventeenth special session Council at its 1622nd Add.1 of the Trusteeship Council meeting; see p. 8 of the present fascicle

T/1907 Report of the Secretary-General 2 For the list of on credentials delegations, see p. 13 of the present fascicle

T/1921 Resolutions and decisions adopted Official Records of the by the Trusteeship Council at its Trusteeship Council, seventeenth special session, Seventeenth Special fifty-fourth session and Session, Fifty-fourth eighteenth special session Session and Eighteenth Special Session, Supplement No. 4

T/L.1254 Arrangements for the dispatch of 4 Adopted by the Trusteeship a visiting mission to observe Council at its 1623rd the plebiscite in Palau, Trust meeting; see resolution Territory of the Pacific Islands, 2184 (S-XVII) December 1986: draft resolution submitted by France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

T/L.1255 Programme budget implications of 4 and the draft resolution contained in Corr.1 document T/L.1254

T/RES/2184 Resolution adopted by the 4 See Official Records of ( S-XVII) Trusteeship Council at its the Trusteeship Council, seventeenth special session Seventeenth Special Session, Fifty-fourth Session and Eighteenth Special Session, Supplement No. 4

-10- A.genda Observations and Symbol Title or description item references

T/COM •• .1 •• Communications 5 For the list of communications and petitions, see the annex to the agenda of the seventeenth special session, contained in the present fascicle

T/PET • •• 1 •• Petitions 5 Idem

-11- ANNEX

DOCUMENT T/1904

[Agenda item 4]

Letter dated 11 November 1986 from the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

[Original: English]

[12 November 1986]

On behalf of my Government, I hereby request a special session of the Trusteeship Council to consider the dispatch of a mission to observe a plebiscite to be held on 2 December 1986 by the Government of Palau on the Compact of Free Association. This request is made pursuant to rule 3 of the rules of procedure of the Trusteeship Council.

My Government requests that the special session be held as soon as possible in order to permit the timely dispatch of such a mission.

(Signed) Vernon A. WALTERS

-12- FIFTY-FOURTH SESSION

-13- AGENDA

adopted by the Council at its 1625th, 1633rd and 1643rd meetings, on 11 and 19 May and 14 December 1987

1. Adoption of the agenda.

2. Report of the Secretary-General on credentials.

3. Election of the President and the Vice-President.

4. Examination of the annual report of the Administering Authority for the year ended 30 September 1986: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

5. Examination of petitions listed in the annex to the agenda [see below].

6. Report of the United Nations Visiting Mission to Observe the Plebiscite in Palau, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, December 1986.

7. Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants of Trust Territories: report of the Secretary-General [General Assembly resolutions 557 (VI) and 753 (VIII)].

B. Dissemination of information on the United Nations and the International Trusteeship System in Trust Territories: report of the Secretary-General [Trusteeship Council resolution 36 (III) and General Assembly resolution 754 (VIII)].

9. Co-operation with the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination [General Assembly resolutions 2106 B (XX) and 41/105].

10. Second Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination [General Assembly resolutions 3057 (XXVIII) and 41/94].

11. Attainment of self-government or independence by the Trust Territories [Trusteeship Council resolution 1369 (XVII) and General Assembly resolution 1413 (XIV)] and the situation in Trust Territories with regard to the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples [General Assembly resolutions 1514 (XV) and 41/41].

12. Co-operation with the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples [General Assembly resolution 1654 (XVI)].

13. Letter dated 4 May 1987 from the Acting Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, containing a request for the dispatch of a visiting mission of the Trusteeship Council to observe a plebiscite in Palau, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

-14- 14. Report of the United Nations Visiting Mission to Observe the Plebiscite in Palau, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, June 1987; report of the United Nations Visiting Mission to Observe the Plebiscite in Palau, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, August 1987.

15. Adoption of the report of the Trusteeship Council to the Security Council [Security Council resolution 70 (1949)].

-15- LIST OF COMMUNICATIONS AND PETITIONS CONCERNING THE TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS RECEIVED BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL AND CIRCULATED TO MEMBERS OF THE TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL

Observations by the Petitioner Symbol Administering Authority

House of Representatives, T/COM.l0/L.366 Not required Northern Marianas Commonwealth Legislature

[Decisions were taken on T/COM.l0/L,367 and L.368 at the seventeenth special session]

Susan Quass, T/COM.l0/L.369 Not required United Methodist Office for the United Nations

Jonathan M. Weisgall T/COM.l0/L.370 Not required

United Palaun Club of T/COM.l0/L.371 Not required Portland, Oregon

House of Delegates, T/COM.lO/L, 372 Second Olbiil Era Kelulau (Palau National Congress)

Santos Olikong, T/COM.l0/L.373 Not required Speaker, House of Delegates, Second Olbiil Era Kelulau (Palau National Congress)

Roger S. Clark, T/COM.l0/L.374 Not required Vice-President, International League for Human Rights

House of Delegates, T/COM.l0/L.375 Not required Second Olbiil Era Kelulau (Palau National Congress)

[Decisions were taken on T/COM.l0/L.376 and L.377 at the eighteenth special session]

-16- Observations by the Petitioner Symbol Administering Authority

Jonathan M. Weisgall T/COM.l0/L.378 Not required

[Decisions were taken on T/COM.l0/L.379 and L.380 at the eighteenth special session]

The Senate, T/COM.l0/L.381 Not required Second Olbiil Era Kelulau (Palau National Congress)

Susan Quass, T/COM.l0/L.382 Not required Resource Co-ordinator for Asia and the Pacific, United Methodist Office for the United Nations

Susan Quass, T/COM.10/L.383 Not required Resource Co-ordinator for Asia and the Pacific, United Methodist Office for the United Nations

Susan Quass, T/COM.l0/L.384 Not required Resource Co-ordinator for Asia and the Pacific, United Methodist Office for the United Nations

Mary W. Choy T/COM.l0/L.385 Not required

Pedro R. Guerrero, T/COM.l0/L.386 Not required Chairman, United Nations Termination Task Force, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands

Jill Lewis T/COM.l0/L.387 Not required

Nancy Aleck T/COM.l0/L.388 Not required

Erick L. Robinson, T/COM.l0/L.389 Not required Oregon Fellowship of Reconciliation

Nicola Miller T/COM.l0/L.390 Not required

Tom Falvey T/COM.l0/L.391 Not required

-17- Observations by the Petitioner Symbol Administering Authority

Richard Eng T/PET.10/476 Required

[Decisions were taken on T/PET.10/477-494 at the seventeenth special session]

Duika Watson T/PET.10/495 Required

P. R. Miller T/PET.10/496 Required

Joan Grant, T/PET.10/497 Required Women Working for a Nuclear-free and Independent Pacific

Nanako Saito T/PET.10/498 Required

John Blair, T/PET.10/499 Required People for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament

R. B. Armitage, T/PET.10/500 Required Crossgates Peace Movement

Madeleine Lysley and T/PET.10/501 Required C. Barnes

J. c. Greeland, T/PET.10/502 Required Bega Valley Women for Nuclear Disarmament

Chris Gladwell T/PET.10/503 Required

Gilda Lowe TIPET.10/504 Required

C. J. Gladwell T/PET.10/505 Required

Terry James T/PET.10/506 Required

Roger S. Clark, T/PET.10/507 Required Vice-President, International League for Human Rights

Jonathan M. Weisgall T/PET.10/508 Not required

Glenn H. Alcalay, T/PET.10/509 and Add.1 Not required National Committee for Radiation Victims

-18- Observations by the Petitioner Symbol Administering Authority

Sue Rabbitt Roff, TIPET.10/510 Not required Executive Director and Non-governmental Organization Representative/USA, Minority Rights Group

Else Hammerich and 96, T/PET.10/511 Required other members of the European Parliament

Oga Ayako T/PET.10/512 Required

Gruppe '75, T/PET.10/513 Required Federal Republic of Germany

Pedro R. Guerrero, T/PET.10/514 and Add.1 and 2 Not required Acting Chairman, Task Force on the Termination of the United Nations Trusteeship, House of Representatives, Northern Marianas Commonwealth Legislature

David R. Anderson of Wilmer, T/PET.10/515 Not required Cutler and Pickering

Peter S. Watson, member, T/PET.10/516 Not required Los Angeles Board, The Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific, Inc.

Elizabeth Bounds, T/PET.10/517 Not required Director, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.

Anne E. Simon, T/PET.10/518 Not required Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights

Santos Olikong, T/PET.10/519 Required Speaker, House of Delegates, Second Olbiil Era Kelulau (Palau National Congress)

Jeton Anjain, T/PET.l0/520 Not required Senator of Rongelap Atoll, Marshall Islands

-19- Observations by the Petitioner Symbol Administering Authority

Tessa Prandi T/PET.l0/596 Required

Campaign for Nuclear T/PET.l0/597 Required Disarmament, Auckland, New Zealand

Colette Greatorea and T/PET.l0/598 Required Birgit Laenger of the War-Resisters International Women, and 18 others

Robert R. Solenberger T/PET.l0/599 Required

Sister Maria Aida Velasquez, T/PET.l0/600 Required Luzon Co-ordinator, Secretariat for an Ecologically Sound Philippines

D. R. Bates for City T/PET.l0/601 Required Clerk, City of Bristol, United Kingdom

Asia A. Bennett, T/PET.l0/602 Required Executive Secretary, American Friends Service Committee

S. Rawson T/PET.l0/603 Required on behalf of the Eastern Suburbs Peace Group, New Zealand

Women Working for a T/PET.l0/604 Required Nuclear-free and Independent Pacific

London Nuclear-free and T/PET.l0/605 Required Independent Pacific

Elsie Locke T/PET.l0/606 Required

Marion Cole T/PET.l0/607 Required Braintree United Nations International Year of Peace Group

Jean Allcock T/PET.l0/608 Required Greenham Support Group

-22- Observations by the Petitioner Symbol Administering Authority

Women Working for a T/PET.l0/609 Required Nuclear-free and Independent Pacific

Gordon Maclean T/PET.l0/610 Required

H. B. Roberts and T/PET.10/611 Required Margaret Roberts

Kapiti Peace and T/PET.l0/612 Required Anti-Nuclear Group, Wellington, New Zealand

Judy Norton, T/PET.10/613 Required Women Working for a Nuclear-free and Independent Pacific, Cambridge

Richard Eng T/PET.10/614 Required

Ian Kinloch, T/PET.l0/615 Required Director of Administration and Legal Services, Wrexham Maelor Borough Council, North Wales

Helen Trask T/PET.10/616 Required

Julie Meikle T/PET.10/617 Required

Angela Needham T/PET.10/618 Required

Meg Beresford, T/PET.10/619 Required General Secretary, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

John Brennan T/PET.10/620 Required

Lynda Medwell T/PET.10/621 Required

Heather Freckleton T/PET.10/622 Required

Marion Cole, T/PET.10/623 Required Braintree and District United Nations International Year of Peace Group

Jane Klassen T/PET.l0/624 Required

-23- Observations by the Petitioner Symbol Administering Authority

Gavin Ross T/PET.10/521 Required

C. D. P. Rhodes T/PET.10/522 Required

Laurel Kimbley, T/PET.10/523 Required Co-ordinator, Downtown Eastside Women's Centre

Anne E. Simon, TIPET.10/524 Not required Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights

Douglas Faulkner T/PET.10/525 Not required

Claire Culhane for T/PET.10/526 Required Prisoners' Rights Group

K. J. Wright T/PET.10/527 Required

Richard Eng T/PET.l0/528 Required

Nina Westaway T/PET.l0/529 Required

Anne P. Horsfield T/PET.10/530 Required

Marion Cole for Braintree T/PET.10/531 Required and District United Nations International Year of Peace Group

Janet Marques T/PET.10/532 Required

Laurie Arber T/PET.10/533 Required

Kathryn Cholette T/PET.10/534 Required

Frances L. Eade for the T/PET.10/535 Required Sudbury Branch of the United Nations Association

Peter Horsfield T/PET.10/536 Required

Trident Action Group, T/PET.10/537 Required Vancouver, Canada

[Decisions were taken on T/PET.10/538-579 at the eighteenth special session]

Ana Wallwork T/PET.l0/580 Required

-20- Observations by the Petitioner Symbol Administering Authority

!an Wyles, T/PET.l0/581 Required Convenor, Stirling District Council, Scotland

Dale F. Bradford T/PET.l0/582 Required

Anne Wydenbach, T/PET.l0/583 Required Secretary, North Shore Peace Group, New Zealand

Alan Graham T/PET.l0/584 Required

Bill Leslie, T/PET.l0/585 Required Co-ordinator, People for Nuclear Disarmament (New South Wales)

Sisters of Our Lady of T/PET.l0/586 Required the Missions, New Zealand

Alison Mills T/PET.l0/587 Required and 27 others

Pauline Robinson T/PET.l0/588 Required and 3 others

June Stroud, T/PET.l0/589 Required Secretary, Sumner Peace Group, New Zealand

Margantha Manning T/PET.l0/590 Required

Joan Shears, T/PET.l0/591 Required Co-ordinator, Nuclear-free and Independent Pacific (Queensland)

Mary Gentle, T/PET.l0/592 Required Women's Peace Group, New Zealand

Patricia M'Tlroy T/PET.l0/593 Required

Asako Takeda T/PET.l0/594 Required

Palau Constitutional T/PET.l0/595 Required Supporters in Oregon

-21- Observations by the Petitioner Symbol Administering Authority

Ayako Oga TIPET.10/625 Required

Mary w. Choy T/PET.10/626 Required

Robin and Brenda Muir T/PET.10/627 Required

Helen E. Trask, T/PET.10/628 Required Yorkshire and Humberside Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz T/PET.10/629 Required Associate General Director, Church Women United, New York

David Barnett T/PET.10/630 Required

Kanagawa Women's Association T/PET.10/631 Required for Defence for Peace Constitution, Japan

Kathleen A. Cross T/PET.10/632 Required

Edna Ross, T/PET.10/633 Required Balmain People for Nuclear Disarmament, Australia

Dr. Robin Briant, T/PET.10/634 Required Chairperson, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Auckland Region

R. Banks T/PET.10/635 Required

Sakiko Okubo T/PET.10/636 Required

Gene and Thorun Robel T/PET.10/637 Required

Mary Heath T/PET.10/638 Required

John A. Markland,· T/PET/10/639 Required Chief Executive, Fife Regional Council

Therese M. Argoud T/PET.10/640 Required

Paul and Viola Andreas T/PET.10/641 Required

-24- Observations by the Petitioner Symbol Administering Authority

J. Evans, T/PET.10/642 Required Peace and International Affairs Spokesperson, Plaid Cymru

Helen C. Turner, T/PET.10/643 Required Chairperson, Women Working for a Nuclear-free and Independent Pacific

Thy:::-a Hansen, T/PET.10/644 Required Women for Peace, Virum, Denmark

The Chairman, T/PET.10/645 Required Norwich City Council Environmental Hazards Committee

Leopoldo Aguirre T/PET.10/646 Required and 13 others, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Eastern Suburbs Peace Group and Trades Union Peace Office

Rosalind Rusbridge T/PET.l0/647 Required

Janet Csoti T/PET.l0/648 Required

Pauline B. Fraser, T/PET.l0/649 Required Barking and Dagenham Women for Peace

Charlotte Bansmer T/PET.l0/650 Required

A. Eileen Bernal T/PET.l0/651 Required

Delia Haywood T/PET.l0/652 Required

Marjorie A. Burton T/PET.l0/653 Required

Edgar Crane T/PET.l0/654 Required

Andrew Shanks T/PET.l0/655 Required and 6 others

Rev. Allyson D. Platt, T/PET.l0/656 Required Ecumenical Peace Institute, Northern California Chapter, Clergy and Laity Concerned

-25- Observations by the Petitioner Symbol Administering Authority

Mary P. English T/PET.l0/657 Required

D. C. Ramwell T/PET.l0/658 Required

Beverley J. T. Delong T/PET.l0/659 Required and 11 others

Luke Gray T/PET.l0/660 Required

Juliet Cunningham T/PET.l0/661 Required

Magne Svendsen T/PET.l0/662 Required

Anne Adams T/PET.l0/663 Required

Else Houm0ller-J0rgensen T/PET.l0/664 Required

David Krag T/PET.l0/665 Required

Atsuta Michiko T/PET.l0/666 Required

Anna Rehin T/PET.l0/667 Required

Gilda Lowe T/PET.l0/668 Required

Everett Whealdon T/PET.l0/669 Required

Else Hammerich, T/PET.l0/670 Not required Member of the European Parliament

Tawna Sanchez, T/PET.l0/671 Not required International Indian Treaty Council, and Cathy Chapman, Women of All Red Nations

Sue Rabbitt Roff, T/PET.l0/672 Not required Executive Director (USA), Minority Rights Group

Stephen Collett, T/PET.l0/673 Not required Quaker Office at the United Nations

Roger S. Clark, T/PET.l0/674 Not required Vice-President, International League for Human Rights

Sara Rios, T/PET.l0/675 Not required Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights

-26- CONTENTS OF THE MEETINGS

Note: The number in brackets after the title of the item indicates the number of the item on the agenda.

1625th (opening} meeting

Monday, 11 May 1987, at 10.55 a.m.

Opening of the fifty-fourth session

Adoption of the agenda [1]

Report of the Secretary-General on credentials (2]

Election of the President and the Vice-President (3]

Programme of work

Examination of the annual report of the Administering Authority for the year ended 30 September 1986: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands [4)

Report of the United Nations Visiting Mission to Observe the Plebiscite in Palau, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, December 1986 (6]

1626th meeting

Tuesday, 12 May 1987, at 10.45 a.m.

Examination of the annual report of the Administering Authority for the year ended 30 September 1986: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (4] (continued)

Examination of petitions listed in the annex to the agenda [5]

Hearing of petitioners

Programme of work

1627th meeting

Wednesday, 13 May 1987, at 10.45 a.m.

Examination of the annual report of the Administering Authority for the year ended 30 September 1986: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (4] (continued)

Examination of petitions listed in the annex to the agenda (5] (continued)

Hearing of petitioners

-27- 1628th meeting

Wednesday, 13 May 1987, at 3.30 p.m.

Examination of the annual report of the Administering Authority for the year ended 30 September 1986: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands [4] (continued)

Examination of petitions listed in the annex to the agenda [5] (continued)

Hearing of petitioners

Programme of work

1629th meeting

Thursday, 14 May 1987, at 10.40 a.m.

Examination of the annual report of the Administering Authority for the year ended 30 September 1986: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands [4] (continued)

Examination of petitions listed in the annex to the agenda [5] (continued)

Hearing of petitioners

Programme of work

1630th meeting

Thursday, 14 May 1987, at 3.30 p.m.

Examination of the annual report of the Administering Authority for the year ended 30 September 1986: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands [4] (continued)

Report of the United Nations Visiting Mission to Observe the Plebiscite in Palau, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, December 1986 [6] (continued)

Programme of work

163lst meeting

Friday, 15 May 1987, at 10.50 a.m.

Examination of the annual report of the Administering Authority for the year ended 30 September 1986: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands [4] (continued)

Report of the United Nations Visiting Mission to Observe the Plebiscite in Palau, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, December 1986 [6] (continued)

-28- Dissemination of information on the United Nations and the International Trusteeship System in Trust Territories: report of the Secretary-General [Trusteeship Council resolution 36 (III) and General Assembly resolution 754 (VIII)] [8]

Programme of work

1632nd meeting

Monday, 18 May 1987, at 10.50 a.m.

Examination of the annual report of the Administering Authority for the year ended 30 September 1986: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands [4] (continued)

Report of the United Nations Visiting Mission to Observe the Plebiscite in Palau, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, December 1986 [6) (continued)

Dissemination of information on the United Nations and the International Trusteeship System in Trust Territories: Report of the Secretary-General [Trusteeship Council resolution 36 (III) and General Assembly resolution 754 (VIII)] [8] (continued)

1633rd meeting

Tuesday, 19 May 1987, at 3.15 p.m.

Examination of the annual report of the Administering Authority for the year ended 30 September 1986: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands [4) (continued)

Report of the United Nations Visiting Mission to Observe the Plebiscite in Palau, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, December 1986 [6) (continued)

Dissemination of information on the United Nations and the International Trusteeship System in Trust Territories: report of the Secretary-General [Trusteeship Council resolution 36 (III) and General Assembly resolution 754 (VIII)] [8] (concluded)

Programme of work

1634th meeting

Wednesday, 20 May 1987, at 11 a.m.

Examination of the annual report of the Administering Authority for the year ended 30 September 1986: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands [4] (continued)

Examination of petitions listed in the annex to the agenda [5) (continued)

Report of the United Nations Visiting Mission to Observe the Plebiscite in Palau, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, December 1986 [6] (continued)

-29- 1635th meeting

Thursday, 21 May 1987, at 11 a.m.

Examination of petitions listed in the annex to the agenda [5] (continued)

Examination of the annual report of the Administering Authority for the year ended 30 September 1986: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands [4] (continued)

Report of the United Nations Visiting Mission to Observe the Plebiscite in Palau, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, December 1986 [6] (continued)

1636th meeting

Thursday, 21 May 1987, at 3.20 p.m.

Examination of the annual report of the Administering Authority for the year ended 30 September 1986: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands [4] (continued)

Report of the United Nations Visiting Mission to Observe the Plebiscite in Palau, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, December 1986 [6] (concluded)

Letter dated 4 May 1987 from the Acting Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, containing a request for the dispatch of a visiting mission of the Trusteeship Council to observe a plebiscite in Palau, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands [13]

Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants of Trust Territories: report of the Secretary-General [General Assembly resolutions 557 (VI) and 753 (VIII)] [7]

Co-operation with the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination [General Assembly resolutions 2106 B (XX) and 41/105] [9]

Second Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination [General Assembly resolutions 3057 (XXVIII) and 41/94] [10]

Programme of work

1637th meeting

Friday, 22 May 1987, at 10.50 a.m.

Examination of the annual report of the Administering Authority for the year ended 30 September 1986: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands [4] (continued)

-30- Letter dated 4 May 1987 from the Acting Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, containing a request for the dispatch of a visiting mission of the Trusteeship Council to observe a plebiscite in Palau, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands [13] (continued)

Programme of work

1638th meeting

Tuesday, 26 May 1987, at 3.45 p.m.

Examination of petitions listed in the annex to the agenda [5] (continued)

Attainment of self-government or independence by the Trust Territories [Trusteeship Council resolution 1369 (XVII) and General Assembly resolution 1413 (XIV)] and the situation in Trust Territories with regard to the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples [General Assembly resolutions 1514 (XV) and 41/41] [11]

Co-operation with the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples [General Assembly resolution 1654 (XVI)] [12]

Programme of work

1639th meeting

Wednesday, 27 May 1987, at 3.20 p.m.

Examination of the annual report of the Administering Authority for the year ended 30 September 1986: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands [4] (continued)

1640th meeting

Thursday, 28 May 1987, at 3.20 p.m.

Report of the Secretary-General on credentials [2] (continued)

Examination of the annual report of the Administering Authority for the year ended 30 September 1986: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands [4] (concluded)

-31- Attainment of self-government or independence by the Trust Territories [Trusteeship Council resolution 1369 (XVII) and General Assembly resolution 1413 (XIV)] and the situation in Trust Territories with regard to the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples [General Assembly resolutions 1514 (XV) and 41/41] [11] (concluded)

Suspension of the session

1641st and 1642nd meetings

[See the contents of the meetings of the eighteenth special session, contained in the present fascicle.]

1643rd meeting

Monday, 14 December 1987, at 3.25 p.m.

Resumption of the session

Programme of work

Report of the Secretary-General on credentials (2] (concluded)

Report of the United Nations Visiting Mission to Observe the Plebiscite in Palau, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, June 1987; report of the United Nations Visiting Mission to Observe the Plebiscite in Palau, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, August 1987 (14]

Hearing of petitioners

1644th meeting

Tuesday, 15 December 1987, at 10.20 a.m.

Hearing of petitioners

Examination of petitions listed in the annex to the agenda (5] (continued)

1645th meeting

Tuesday,' 15 December 1987, at 3.10 p.m.

Examination of petitions listed in the annex to the agenda (5] (concluded)

-32- 1646th meeting

Wednesday, 16 December 1987, at 10.50 a.m.

1647th meeting

Wednesday, 16 December 1987, at 3.10 p.m.

Adoption of the report of the Trusteeship Council to the Security Council [Security Council resolution 70 (1949) [15]

Closure of the fifty-fourth session

-33- LIST OF DELEGATIONS

Members of the Council

CHINA

[Did not participate in the session.]

FRANCE

Head of delegation

Mr. Jean-Michel Gaussot, First Counsellor, Permanent Mission

Representatives

Mr. Christian Schricke, First Counsellor, Permanent Mission

Mr. Jean-Pierre Guinhut, Counsellor, Permanent Mission

Mr. Patrick Pascal, First Secretary, Permanent Mission

UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS

Representative

Mr. Sergey Nikolayevich Smirnov, Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations

Alternate Representative

Mr. Juozapas Yurgevich Grigutis, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic

Advisers

Mr. Valentin Nikolayevich Berezovsky, Counsellor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Mr. Nikifor Mironovich Levchenko, Senior Counsellor, Permanent Mission

Experts

Mr. Andrey Alekseyevich Nesterenko, Second Secretary, Permanent Mission

Mr. Vladimir Vasilyevich Ganchin, Third Secretary, Permanent Mission

Mr. Mikhail Ivanovich Steshenko, Third Secretary, Permanent Mission

-34- UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

Representative

H.E. Mr. John A. Birch, C. M. G., Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations

Alternate Representatives

Mr. David M. Edwards, Counsellor and Legal Adviser, Permanent Mission

Mr. David E. S. Blatherwick, Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Permanent Mission

Ms. Helen de C. Taylor, First Secretary, Permanent Mission

Mr. John Stephen Smith, Second Secretary, Permanent Mission

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Representative

H.E. Miss Patricia M. Byrne, Ambassador, Deputy Representative on the Security Council, Permanent Mission

Alternate Representatives

Mr. Jeffrey J. Buczacki, Adviser, Permanent Mission

Mr. Robert M. Immerman, Minister-Counsellor, Permanent Mission

Mr. Robert B. Rosenstock, Counsellor, Permanent Mission

Special Representatives

Mrs. Janet C. McCoy, High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

Mr. Lazarus E. Salii, President of Palau

Mr. Richard Montoya, Assistant Secretary for Territorial and Insular Affairs, Department of the Interior

Special Advisers

Mr. Kitti Baier, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Territorial and Insular Affairs, Department of the Interior

Mr. John 0. Ngiraked, Minister of State, Palau

Mr. Victoria Uherbelau, Director, Bureau of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of State, Palau

-35- Advisers

Ms. Lois Aroian, Office of United Nations Political and Multilateral Affairs, Bureau of International Organizations Affairs, Department of State

Mr. James D. Berg, Director, Office of Freely Associated States Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State

Lt. Howard Hills, United States Navy, Legal and Defense Adviser, Office of Freely Associated States Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State

Mr. Eloy I. Inos, Director of Finance and Administration, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

Mr. Charles Jordan, Director of Capital Improvement, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

Mr. Gilbert Kulick, Deputy Director, Office of United Nations Political and Multilateral Affairs, Bureau of International Organizations Affairs, Department of State

Mr. Sam McPhetres, Director, Office of Archives and International Organizations, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

Ms. Pamela Noe, Adviser, Permanent Mission

Mr. Samuel M. Witten, United Nations Affairs, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State

Other States Members of the United Nations

FIJI

Representative

Mr. Raj Singh, Counsellor, Permanent Mission

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Representative

Mr. David Famundi Anggo, Charge d'affaires a.i., Permanent Mission

Specialized agencies

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION

Mr. Georges Minet, Deputy Director, Liaison Office with the United Nations, New York

-36- FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

Mr. Gabriel S. Saab, Representative to the United Nations, Liaison Office with the United Nations, New York

Mr. Jean S. Camara, Deputy Representative to the United Nations, Liaison Office with the United Nations, New York

UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION

Mr. Joseph A. Mehan, Acting Director-Public Information Officer, Office for Liaison with the United Nations, New York

Mrs. Neh Dukuly-Tolbert, Senior Liaison Officer, Office for Liaison with the United Nations, New York

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Dr. Julien F. F. Bertaux, Senior Liaison Officer (Medical), Liaison Office with the United Nations, New York * * * OFFICERS OF THE COUNCIL

President: H.E. Mr. John A. Birch, C. M. G. (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

Vice-President: Mr. Jean-Michel Gaussot (France)

-37- CHECK-LIST OF DOCUMENTS

Note: Listed below are the documents pertaining to the fifty-fourth session of the Council. An asterisk after the symbol indicates that the document is published in the present fascicle.

Agenda Observations and Symbol Title or description item references

A/41/822- Letter dated 12 November 1986 from Official Records of the S/18455 the Permanent Representative of Security Council, the Union of Soviet Socialist Forty-first Year, Republics to the United Nations Supplement for October, addressed to the Secretary-General November and December 1986, document S/18455

A/42/111- Letter dated 29 January 1987 Ibid., Forty-second S/18644 from the Permanent Representative Year, Supplement for of Afghanistan to the United January, February and Nations addressed to the March 1987, document Secretary-General S/18644

S/18380 Note by the Secretary-General Ibid., Forty-first transmitting a letter dated Year, Supplement for 30 September 1986 from the October, November and Permanent Representative of the December 1986, document United States of America to S/18380 the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

S/18822 Report of the Government of the 4 United States of America on the administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands for the period from 1 October 1985 to 30 September 1986: note by the Secretary-General

S/19596 Report of the Trusteeship Council 15 Ibid.,Forty-second to the Security Council on the Year, Special Trust Territory of the Pacific Supplement No. l Islands (1 July 1986- 16 December 1987)

T/1902* Letter dated 30 September 1986 from 4 the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

-38- Agenda Observations and Symbol Title or description item references

T/1903* Letter dated 23 October 1986 from 4 the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

T/1906 Report of the United Nations 6 Official Records of the Visiting Mission to Observe Trusteeship Council, the Plebiscite in Palau, Fifty-fourth Session, Trust Territory of the Pacific Supplement No. 1 Islands, December 1986

T/1908 and Provisional agenda of the 1 Adopted by the Add.1 and 2 fifty-fourth session Trusteeship Council at of the Trusteeship Council its 1625th, 1633rd and 1643rd meetings; see p. 20 of the present fascicle

T/1909 and Report of the Government of the 4 Add.1 United States of America on the administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands for the period from 1 October 1985 to 30 September 1986: note by the Secretary-General

T/1910* Letter dated 4 May 1987 from the 13 Acting Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

T/1911 and Offers by Member States of study 7 Add.1 and and training facilities for Add.1/ inhabitants of Trust Territories: Corr.l* report of the Secretary-General

T/1912* Dissemination of information 8 on the United Nations and the International Trusteeship System in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: report of the Secretary-General

T/1913 and Report of the Secretary-General 2 For the list of Add.1 on credentials delegations, see p. 43 of the present fascicle

-39- Agenda Observations and Symbol Title or description item references

T/1917* Letter dated 8 October 1987 from 4 the Permanent Representative of the United States of Aroerica to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

T/1919 Report of the United Nations Official Records of the Visiting Mission to Observe the Trusteeship Council, Plebiscite in Palau, Trust Fifty-fourth Session, Territory of the Pacific Islands, Supplement No. 2 June 1987

T/1920 Report of the United Nations Ibid., Supplement No. 3 Visiting Mission to Observe the Plebiscite in Palau, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, August 1987

T/1921 Resolutions and decisions adopted Ibid., Seventeenth by the Trusteeship Council at its Special Session, seventeenth special session, Fifty-fourth Session fifty-fourth session and eighteenth and Eighteenth Special special session Session, Supplement No. 4

T/L.1256 Outline of conditions in the Trust 4 Territory of the Pacific Islands: working paper prepared by the Secretariat

T/L.1257 Report of the United Nations 6 Adopted by the Visiting Mission to Observe the Trusteeship Council at Plebiscite in Palau, Trust its 1636th meeting; see Territory of the Pacific Islands, resolution 2186 (LIV) December 1986: draft resolution submitted by France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

T/L.1258 Arrangements for the dispatch of a Adopted by the visiting mission to observe the Trusteeship Council at plebiscite in Palau, Trust its 1638th meeting; see Territory of the Pacific Islands, resolution 2185 (LIV) June 1987: draft resolution submitted by France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

T/L.1259 Programme budget implications of the draft resolution contained in document T/L.l258

-40- Agenda Observations and Symbol Title or description item references

T/L,l260 Report of the Drafting Committee 4 and Corr.1* on the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

T/L,l263 Report of the United Nations 14 Adopted by the Visiting Mission to Observe the Trusteeship Council at Plebiscite in Palau, Trust its 1647th meeting; see Territory of the Pacific Islands, resolution 2188 (LIV) June 1987: draft resolution submitted by France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

T/L.l264 Report of the United Nations 14 Adopted by the Visiting Mission to Observe the Trusteeship Council at Plebiscite in Palau, Trust its 1647th meeting; see Territory of the Pacific Islands, resolution 2189 (LIV) August 1987: draft resolution submitted by France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

T/RES/2185 Resolution adopted by the 14 See Official Records of (LIV) Trusteeship Council at its the Trusteeship fifty-fourth session Council, Seventeenth Special Session, Fifty-fourth Session and Eighteenth Special Session, Supplement No. 4

T/RES/2186 Idem 6 Ibid. (LIV)

T/RES/2188 Idem 14 (LIV)

T/RES/2189 Idem 14 (LIV)

T/COM •.. I .. Communications 5 For the list of communications and petitions, see the annex to the agenda of the fifty-fourth session, contained in the present fascicle

T/PET .• • I •• Petitions 5

-41- ANNEXES

DOCUMENT T/1902

[Agenda item 4)

tember 1986 from the Permanent Representative Letter dated 30 America to the United Nations addressed h United StateJL-S~f QO~Jdlie~~~~~~~~tof t the Secretary-General* -=-

[Original: English]

[6 October 1986)

fer to resolution 2183 (LIII) adopted by the Trusteeship I have the honour to re titled "Examination of the annual report of the 9 6 Council on 28 May 1 ~ and e~he year ended 30 September 1985: Trust Territory of Administering Author~ty for ·ve paragraph 2 of this resolution "requests the the Pacific Islands". in consultation with the Governments of the •t dOperat~s State ' Government of the Un~ e . the Marshall Islands, Palau and the Northern Federated States of Micrones~a, date not later than 30 September 1986 for the full Mariana Islands, to agree on at of Free Association and The Commonwealth Covenant, entry into force of the Compac al of the United Nations of that date". and to inform the Secretary-Gener

. form you that the Government of the United States has I have the honour to •th concerned parties which would permit establishing d a·1 ions~n ~ 1 not yet complete scuss 0 f the Compact of Free Association and The Commonwealth a date for entry into force ne United States expects to be in a position soon to Covenant. The Government 0 7 ~ keep you fully informed. determine such a date and W1 1

(Signed) Vernon A. WALTERS

DOCUMENT T/1903

[Agenda item 4]

Letter tober 1986 from the Permanent Representative dated 23 Oc America to the United Nations addressed of the U . t d States_q_=--t n~ e .tQ--the Secretary-General

[Original: English]

[24 October 1986]

to resolution 2183 (LIII) of the Trusteeship I have the honour to in which the Trusteeship Council noted that the refe~98 Council, adopted on 28 May a'Islands, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States peoples of the Northern Mar1an7

nt of the Security Council (S/18380, annex). For Also issued as a docume ords of the Security Council, Forty-first Year, * f · · 1 ReC the printed text, see 0 f~c~a ~d December 1986. Supplement for Octo b er, Novembe_£__§-- -42- of Micronesia, and Palau have freely exercised their right to self-determination in choosing their future status, and considered that the Government of the United States has satisfactorily discharged its obligations under the terms of the Trusteeship Agreement of 18 July 1947. 11 The Council emphasized the clearly expressed wish of the entities to enter their new status and urged the United States to come to an early agreement with them on the entry into force of these new relationships.

I therefore have the honour to inform you that, as a consequence of consultations held between the United States Government and the Government of the Marshall Islands, agreement has been reached that 21 October 1986 is the date upon which the Compact of Free Association with the Marshall Islands enters fully into force. Furthermore, I am pleased to inform you that the Compact of Free Association with the Federated States of Micronesia and The Commonwealth Covenant with the Northern Mariana Islands will enter into force on 3 November 1986.

I shall inform you of arrangements for entry into force of the Compact of Free Association with Palau once accord has been reached on the effective date of that agreement.

I would be grateful if you would circulate this letter as a document of the Security Council ~/ and of the Trusteeship Council.

(Signed) Vernon A. WALTERS

DOCUMENT T/1910

[Agenda item 13]

Letter dated 4 May 1987 from the Acting Permanent Representative of the United States of Affierica to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

[Original: English]

[6 May 1987]

I have the honour to convey an invitation from His Excellency Lazarus E. Salii, President of the Republic of Palau, to the United Nations Trusteeship Council to observe a plebiscite to be held on 31 May and 2 June 1987 on the Compact of Free Association with the United States of America.

I would appreciate your circulating this letter as a document of the Trusteeship Council and of the Security Council. ~/

(Signed) Herbert S. OKUN

11 Trusteeship Agreement for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (United Nations publication, Sales No. 1957.VI.A.l).

~~ See S/18424.

~I See Official Records of the Security Council, Forty second Year, Supplement for April, May and June 1987, document S/18847.

-43- DOCUMENTS T/1911 and Add.l and Add.l/Corr.l

[Agenda item 7)

Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants of Trust Territories: report of the Secretary-General

[Original: English]

[11 May 1987]

1. By its resolutions 557 (VI) of 18 January 1952 and 753 (VIII) of 9 December 1953, the General Assembly invited Member States to make available to qualified students from Trust Territories scholarships, fellowships and internships for university study and post-primary and technical education.

2. The programme is administered in accordance with the procedure approved by the Trusteeship Council at its thirteenth session. ~I Under this procedure, the Secretary-General was invited to submit to the Trusteeship Council at least once a year a report containing all appropriate details of the programme. The present report is the thirty-fifth such report and covers the period from 13 May 1986 to 11 May 1987.

3. As stated in previous reports, 11 Member States had in the past made scholarships available under this programme. Those Member States were the following: Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Tunisia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Yugoslavia.

4. A description of the scholarships offered by Member States is contained in the eighteenth report submitted to the Trusteeship Council at its thirty-sixth session. ~I

5. Up-to-date information concerning the scholarships made available under the programme, as well as the extent to which awards had been made to, and utilized by, students from the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, was requested by the Secretary-General in a note dated 6 April 1987 addressed to Member States that had offered scholarships in previous years.

6. At 11 May 1987, information had been received from three offering States, namely, Czechoslovakia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Yugoslavia.

7. In a note dated 7 May 1987, the Permanent Representative of Czechoslovakia to the United Nations informed the Secretary-General that his Government had offered 20 scholarships annually for inhabitants of Trust Territories. That quota had not been made use of thus far, however, and the offer of a total of 20 scholarships remained valid.

~I See Official Records of the Trusteeship Council, Thirteenth Session, Annexes, agenda item 13, document T/1093.

~I Ibid., Thirty-sixth Session, Annexes, agenda item 10, document T/1696.

-44- 8. In providing education to inhabitants of Trust Territories Czechoslovakia considered it a means of assisting in the all-round development of dependent Territories, whose aim was the exercise of the inalienable right of their peoples to self-determination.

9. In a note dated 16 April 1987, the Permanent Mission of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the United Nations informed the Secretary-General that, during the academic year 1986/1987, no inhabitants from the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands were studying in the Soviet Union.

10. In a note dated 29 April 1987, the Permanent Representative of Yugoslavia to the United Nations informed the Secretary-General that over a number of years Yugoslavia had regularly granted scholarships to several members of liberation movements from Territories that had not yet attained self-government or independence. The note further stated that in the past three years an average of 120 students per year were enrolled in graduate study courses on scholarship grants from the Socialist Alliance of the Working People of Yugoslavia. In addition, another 150 to 200 members of liberation movements had attended various short-term courses and pursued specializations in Yugoslavia in the past couple of years.

11. Information on the scholarships made available under the programme is included in the twenty-fifth edition of Study Abroad (1987/88}, published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Copies of Study Abroad are sent to the Administering Authority and to United Nations information centres.

DOCUMENT T/1912

[Agenda item 8]

Dissemination of information on the United Nations and the International Trusteeship System in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: report of the Secretary-General

[Original: English]

(12 May 1987]

1. Pursuant to Trusteeship Council resolution 36 (III) of 8 July 1948 and General Assembly resolution 754 (VIII) of 9 December 1953, the Secretary-General and the Administering Authority of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands continued to co-operate during the period under review in disseminating information to the Trust Territory on the aims and objectives of the International Trusteeship System and of the United Nations. The present report covers the period from 1 May 1986 to 30 April 1987.

2. The Department of Public Information of the Secretariat distributed information material both directly to the Trust Territory and through its information centres, primarily the United Nations Information Centre in Tokyo. Other departments of the Secretariat co-operated in that effort, particularly the secretariat of the Trusteeship Council and the Distribution Section of the Department of Conference Services.

-45- 3. Documents of the Trusteeship Council and the United Nations News Digest were airmailed by the Distribution Section directly from Headquarters to the Trust Territory, while taped radio programmes were airmailed by the Department of Public Information. The mailing lists for Trusteeship Council documents and other United Nations publications included Government offices, legislatures and libraries throughout the Territory; the radio tapes and other information materials were transmitted to government information offices, radio stations, newspapers, the College of Micronesia, schools, libraries and individuals.

4. The Department of Public Information produced 29 press releases in the English language and 26 in the French language dealing with the Trusteeship Council.

5. Photo coverage by the Department of Public Information of the proceedings of the Trusteeship Council was made available to the news media. Two maps (1945 and 1985) were created for the exhibit on Decolonization on the visitors' tour route at Headquarters and distributed in printed form in the English and French languages to all United Nations information centres in 1986.

6. During the period under review, the Radio Service of the Department of Public Information regularly distributed to radio stations in the Trust Territory the weekly taped programmes "Perspective", "Scope" and "Women", and the monthly taped programme "Asian Spotlight".

7. Since most public institutions in the Territory, including schools, have video-cassette playing equipment, the Tokyo Information Centre distributed the United Nations film and video catalogue throughout the Territory.

8. The message of the President of the Trusteeship Council on the occasion of United Nations Day was transmitted by telegram to the Information Centre in Tokyo, which transmitted it to the Territory as a press release. The message of the Secretary-General was similarly distributed.

9. Two briefings by non-governmental organizations were held at Headquarters on the subject of decolonization. An officer of the Department of Political Affairs, Trusteeship and Decolonization briefed 88 non-governmental organizations on "The fifty-third session of the Trusteeship Council: the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands". Another officer of the same Department held a briefing for 87 non-governmental organizations on "United Nations and Decolonization".

10. The United Nations Information Centre in Manila produced three radio programmes on the subject of the Trust Territory.

11. The Department of Public Information has prepared for the UN Chronicle a special article on the visiting mission to Palau, which will appear in the May 1987 issue of the publication.

12. The financial crisis of the United Nations seriously hampered the dissemination of information in the Trust Territory. Whereas in previous years the Information Officer at the Tokyo Information Centre visited the Territory on an annual basis, he was unable to do so in 1987 because of a lack of funds. Also, owing to budget cuts, the Centre was compelled to reduce the volume of information material that it mailed, including material to the Territory, While in 1985 34 different items (publications, posters, press releases) were shipped to the Trust Territory, only 14 items were mailed during 1986. Also, more material had to be sent by surface mail instead of airmail.

-46- LIST OF UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION MATERIAL DISTRIBUTED IN THE TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

No. of copies

Through the United Nations Information Centre in Tokyo

53' X 6 Development Forum, vol. XIV, Nos. 1-6 (1986)

89 X 4 Disarmament Fact Sheet, Nos. 42-45

89 Disarmament Newsletter

89 International Year of Peace (poster)

240 Proclamation of the International Year of Peace

89 Basic Facts about the United Nations (DPI/822, DPI/869)

64 Image and Reality (DPI/872)

89 "Four Pacific Islands apply for ESCAP membership" (press release)

89 "Message by the Secretary-General on United Nations Day" (press release)

89 "Message by the President of the Trusteeship Council, Laurent Rapin, on United Nations Day" (press release)

28 Pepito's Speech at the United Nations (DPI/800)

240 1986 UN Day Student Leaflet

56 UN Film and Video Catalogue, 1986-87

28 UN Sales Publications in Print, summer 1985

From the Distribution Section of the Department of Conference Services of the Secretariat

66 Official Records of the Trusteeship Council, Fifteenth Special Session, and Fiftieth Session, Sessional Fascicle

66 Official Records of the Trusteeship Council, Fifty-first Session, Sessional Fascicle

66 Official Records of the Trusteeship Council, Fifty-second Session, Sessional Fascicle

-47- 66 Official Records of the Trusteeship Council, Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 1, Resolutions and Decisions

66 Documents of the seventeenth special session (T/PV.l601-1624}, the fifty-third session (T/1888-T/1907) and the fifty-fourth session (T/1908 and T/1909) of the Trusteeship Council

66 Report of the United Nations Visiting Mission to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, 1985 (Official Records of the Trusteeship Council, Fifty-third Session, Supplement No. 1)

66 Report of the United Nations Visiting Mission to Observe the Plebiscite in Palau, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, February 1986 (Official Records of the Trusteeship Council, Fifty-third Session, Supplement No. 2

66 Official Records of the Trusteeship Council, Sixteenth Special Session and Fifty-third Session, Supplement No. 3, Resolutions and Decisions

66 Report of the United Nations Visiting Mission to Observe the Plebiscite in Palau, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, December 1986 {Official Records of the Trusteeship Council, Fifty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 1

66 Report of the Trusteeship Council to the Security Council on the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, 12 July 1985-30 June 1986 (Official Records of the Security Council, Forty-first Year, Special Supplement No. 1)

DOCUMENT T/1917

[Agenda item 4]

Letter dated 8 October 1987 from the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary General

[Original: English]

[13 October 1987]

On behalf of my Government, the Administering Authority for the Trust ~erritor~ of the Pacific Islands, I have the honour to transmit for your ~nformat~on the texts of two addresses marking final approval by the Government of Palau of the Compact of Free Association with the United States of America.

I reques~ yocu to.have these texts and this letter circulated as documents of the Trusteesh~p ounc~l and of the Security Council. Ql

(Signed) Vernon A. WALTERS Ambassador

Ql See S/19200.

-48- Annex I

Address to the nation delivered by High Chief Yutaka Gibbons on 25 September 1987 at a ceremony marking the final approval of the Compact by the Government of Palau

I thank God for this auspicious moment in our history.

I extend my special greetings to High Chief Reklai and all the members of the Council of Chiefs.

I acknowledge with respect the presence of the President of the Republic, the Honourable Lazarus Salii, Vice President Thomas Remengesau, the members of the Cabinet, and the presiding officers and members of the Olbiil Era Kelulau.

I wish also to extend my greetings to all State Governors and all the members of the various state organizations, both men and women, who are here with us today. I am very pleased to see such a huge crowd of Palauans here; I am very proud that a great many of you made the effort to travel from your villages to Koror to join us in celebrating this moment, which is a milestone in our political advancement.

I wish now to tender on behalf of every Palauan here special greetings to our distinguished guests from abroad. We are grateful that they found the time in their very busy schedules to travel great distances to Palau to be with us when we celebrate the final settlement of our political status.

The history of Palau demonstrates time and time again that when our people come face to face with a momentous decision, our leaders initially have different approaches to achieving what is best for the Palauans. This is good because every aspect of a given issue is examined in minute detail and advantages or disadvantages are explored fully so that, in the end, what we opt for is always in the best interest of the greatest number of the Palauan people. I believe this is democracy working at its best.

Now we have come to the end of our long and many a time frustrating work with the United States on our future political status. The United States Government had made it very clear to us that before it can enter into any long and meaningful relationship with us, we have to set our own house in order to ensure that our relationship with it would have a solid foundation.

I am pleased to announce to you that the agreement President Salii and I signed earlier relating to land matters removed the final obstacle to implementing the Compact agreement with the United States.

I am happy to note that President Salii has always been cognizant of the importance of land matters in Palauan society. In fact, President Salii, who was in the Compact negotiations from the beginning as chairman, first with the Congress of Micronesia and later with the Palau negotiating commission, understood our position regarding land matters very clearly and worked very hard to ensure that our concerns were accommodated with the Compact with the United States.

-49- At one time, at our request, he suspended negotiations for two years because land matters in Palau were not addressed adequately by the United States negotiators. I respect him for this gesture and will not forget it as long as I live.

I ask all Palauans to continue to value their lands, to respect the properties of others, and to preserve our islands so that while we may derive economic benefits from them today, we may also pass them on to future generations in as good conditions as when we received them from our ancestors.

As part of our land heritage, we should also respect one another as our forefathers taught us. Our respect for one another should be tempered with equality for everyone, no matter how high or low in social or economic status a person might be. Let us show one another the beauty of our ancient culture, a culture which placed a high premium on kindness, honesty and respect for individuals.

I announce to the world that the agreement we have with the United States adequately protects our lands. It protects our economic rights to our properties, and it allows us to live as an independent people along with the rest of the world. I announce to the world that Palau is an open society, willing to establish friendly relations with the rest of the world, and ready to embark on economic partnerships with anyone for mutual benefits.

Many of my friends throughout the world, including world organizations that were sympathetic with my previous stand on the Compact issue, may very well wonder what had happened to my position. I respect their sympathetic concerns. Through their efforts I once received a very distinguished world award called an alternate Nobel peace prize, a recognition which I value very highly.

However, all my friendships with renowned world personages and organizations and the personal honour and prestige that come with such association will never replace my love and concern for the welfare of the Palauan people. My first and foremost interest is to see a strong and viable Palauan nation that can stand tall and proud among the world's family of nations. I want to see our traditions strengthened so that our culture, working hand-in-hand with our new democratic system of government, would assure for our people a strong and viable economy and a stable society for all future generations of Palauans.

I would like to thank all those who worked so hard to prepare for this day. The Council of Chiefs is very pleased with this ceremony and its success. The Ngarameketii organization of Koror is also very happy with the success we are reaping today. Koror will continue to allow and assist all organizations that are located here to maintain peace and harmony among our people.

This is my most important request. I ask all the leaders in Palau, those who are in the government, those who head Palauan clans and families, those who lead political or social organizations, the parents, and all brothers and sisters, to come together again and to have peace among themselves. I ask all of you to set aside your differences and to work together to ensure that our nation moves forward with confidence and for the benefit of us all.

-50- Annex II

Congratulatory address by the Honourable Joshua Koshiba, President of the Senate, to the people of Palau on the occasion of the approval of the Compact of Free Association

Greetings and congratulations to the people of Palau for the successful approval of the Compact of Free Association at last. As we all know, the final lawsuit barring implementation of the Compact of Free Association has been withdrawn and the way is now clear for us to forget the past and move forward.

It all began approximately 20 years ago, when we first began negotiations for our future political status. We went through six different referendums to obtain approval of the Compact, not to mention other referendums that became necessary to bring about compatibility between the Compact and our Constitution. In retrospect, we can see many ups and downs we went through, probably more downs than ups, and it is deplorable that we experienced some violence, including the tragic loss of lives and properties, dissension among clan members, division among families, and even discord between our own selves. Such problems may be taken by some as growth pains normal in any developing nation, but for us they should be abhorred as foreign to our normally peaceful, traditional ways, and must not be condoned in our society.

As we stand on the brink of full nationhood, we should take pride that we have gone through the same forge as all other nations on earth have gone through, and have emerged in th~ end as a strong, united Palau! AS a new nation, we have proven to the world that we stand with them as equals. We have shown to the world that the basic rule of democracy - majority rule - is at work in our islands and that we stand for human rights on our shores. Let it be known to the world that the interests and welfare of the citizens of the Republic of Palau come first and foremost in our islands, and that we will not tolerate outside interests which invade our homeland disguised in the cloak of the over-zealous anti-nuclear movement. Let it be known that no outside interference or influence will deter us from our cherished, ultimate goals of freedom and self-governance.

With the Compact approval process now behind us, the only remaining act is its implementation. The period of differences is over now, and it is time that we put the past behind us and move forward as a people, as a nation. On behalf of the Senate, I urge all the people of Palau to come together, join hands, and fully co-operate with each other as we sail forth. Let us devote our energies into building a strong government supportive of one another. Le us urge our executive leaders to spare no efforts to ensure democracy and security among our people, and to bring to justice those responsible for the violence we have experienced in the past.

Finally, I take this opportunity to thank each citizen of the Republic of Palau for each important part you played in our quest for a new political status. AS a new, developing nation, it is vital that we try our democratic system of government to assure it will not fail us in the future. We have successfully done just that in the recent exercises, and I wish sincerely to congratulate and thank all the people of Palau on the eve of their new political status.

-51- DOCUMENT T/L.l260 and Corr.l

[Agenda item 4]

Report of the Drafting Committee on the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

[Original: English/French]

[27 May 1987]

1. At its 1637th meeting, on 22 May 1987, the Trusteeship Council appointed a drafting committee composed of the representatives of France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to propose, on the basis of the discussions that had taken place in the Council, conclusions and recommendations on conditions in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

2. The Drafting Committee held one meeting.

3. In the light of the general discussions in the Trusteeship Council on conditions in the Territory, the Committee recommends that the Trusteeship Council adopt the conclusions and recommendations set out in the annex to the present report and include them as part II of its report to the Security Council.

Draft conclusions and recommendations

[For the text of the conclusions and recommendations adopted by the Trusteeship Council at its 1640th meeting, on 28 May 1987, see Official Records of the Security Council, Forty-second Year, Special Supplement No. 1, fifty-fourth session of the Trusteeship Council, part II.]

-52- EIGHTEENTH SPECIAL SESSION

-53- AGENDA

adopted by the Council at its 164lst meeting, on 13 August 1987

1. Adoption of the agenda.

2. Report of the Secretary-General on credentials.

3. Letter dated 7 August 1987 from the Acting Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, containing a request for a special session of the Trusteeship Council to consider the dispatch of a mission to observe a plebiscite scheduled for 21 August 1987 in Palau on the Compact of Free Association.

4. Examination of petitions listed in the annex to the agenda [see below] and related to item 3 of the agenda.

List of communications and petitions concerning the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands received by the Secretary-General and circulated to members of the Trusteeship Council

Observations by the Administering Petitioner Symbol Authority

Santos Olikong, Speaker, House of T/COM.10/L.376 Not required Delegates, Second Olbiil Era Kelulau (Palau National Congress}

T/COM.10/L.377 Not required [A decision on T/COM.10/L.378 was taken at the fifty-fourth session]

Balerio U. Pedro T/COM.l0/L.379 Not required

Ibedul Yutaka Gibbons, High Chief of T/COM.l0/L.380 Not required Palau

S. Tachibana T/PET.l0/538 Required

H. B. Roberts, Canon of Derby Cathedral, T/PET.l0/539 Required and Margaret Roberts

Sarah Sutmoller T/PET.l0/540 Required

Sarja Sutmoller- (last name illegible} T/PET.l0/541 Required

-54- Observations by the Administering Petitioner Symbol Authority

Brita Johnson and 17 others, on behalf T/PET.l0/542 Required of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Eastern Suburbs Peace Group and Trades Union Peace Office

Susan Miller T/PET.l0/543 Required

Dorothy Thau T/PET.l0/544 Required

M. T. C. Morgan T/PET.l0/545 Required

Gregory Liffick T/PET.l0/546 Required

Joan Grant, Women Working for a T/PET.l0/547 Required Nuclear-free and Independent Pacific

Rev. Wes Campbell, Executive Secretary, T/PET.l0/548 Required The Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of Victoria

Lopeti Senituli, General Co-ordinator, T/PET.l0/549 Required Pacific Concerns Resource Centre

Sandra J. Ionno T/PET.l0/550 Required

Jeff Mertens T/PET.l0/551 Required

Zohl De Ishtar, Women Working for a T/PET.l0/552 Required Nuclear-free and Independent Pacific

Bridget Roberts, Women Working for a T/PET.l0/552/Add.l Required Nuclear-free and Independent Pacific

Women Working for a Nuclear-free and T/PET.l0/552/Add.2 Required Independent Pacific

Hans-Henrik Skieller T/PET.l0/553 Required

Anna Rehin T/PET.l0/554 Required

British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament T/PET.l0/555 Required

Rev. J. MacDonald Smith, Honorary T/PET.l0/556 Required Secretary, Clergy against Nuclear Arms

Susan Quass, Resource Co-ordinator for T/PET.l0/557 Required Asia and the Pacific, United Methodist Office for the United Nations

-55- Observations by the Administering Petitioner Symbol Authority

Santos Olikong, Speaker, House of T/PET.l0/558 Required Delegates, Second Olbiil Era Kelulau (Palau National Congress)

Michelle Sheather and Stewart Firth T/PET.l0/559 Required

Annemarie Dullo T/PET.l0/560 Required

Jean Davidson, Honorary Secretary, T/PET.l0/561 Required St. Andrews United Nations Association

Rev. Geoffrey R. Usher, Chairman, United T/PET.l0/562 Required Nations Association of Australia (New South Wales)

Friends of the Earth, New Zealand, T/PET.l0/563 Required Limited

Mary Thomson T/PET.l0/564 Required

Mr. Matthews T/PET.l0/565 Required

Alistair Robinson and Natasha Armstrong T/PET.l0/566 Required

Gael Johnson, Alice Heather and T/PET.l0/567 Required Julie Miles

Participants in the International T/PET.l0/568 Required Conference of the Forty-second Anniversary World Conference for a Nuclear-free World

London Nuclear-free and Independent T/PET.l0/569 Required Pacific

Peter Towler T/PET.l0/570 Required

Bunny McDiarmid, Greenpeace, New Zealand T/PET.l0/571 Required

Elizabeth Bounds, Director, Micronesia T/PET.l0/572 Required Coalition, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.

D. G. E. Slot (Mrs.) and Michael M. Slot T/PET.l0/573 Required

Elizabeth Mattick, President, Women's T/PET.l0/574 Required International League for Peace and Freedom, Australian Section

-56- Observations by the Administering Petitioner Symbol Authority

Joan Macdonald T/PET.l0/575 Required

Drs. Helen and Bill Caldicott T/PET.l0/576 Required

International Gathering on Feminism and T/PET.l0/577 Required Nonviolence, Glencree Peace and Reconciliation Centre, Ireland

Maire Leadbeater, Pacific Co-ordinator, T/PET.l0/578 Required Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Ayako Oga T/PET.l0/579 Required

-57- CONTENTS OF THE MEETINGS

Note: The number in brackets after the title of the item indicates the number of the item on the agenda.

1641st (opening) meeting

Thursday, 13 August 1987, at 11.35 a.m.

Opening of the eighteenth special session

Adoption of the agenda [1]

Report of the Secretary-General on credentials [2]

Letter dated 7 August 1987 from the Acting Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, containing a request for a special session of the Trusteeship Council to consider the dispatch of a mission to observe a plebiscite scheduled for 21 August 1987 in Palau on the Compact of Free Association [3]

Programme of work

1642nd meeting

Thursday, 13 August 1987, at 3.15 p.m.

Examination of petitions listed in the annex to the agenda and related to item 3 of the agenda [4]

Report of the Secretary-General on credentials [2] (concluded)

Closure of the eighteenth special session

-58- LIST OF DELEGATIONS

Members of the Council

CHINA

[Did not participate in the session.]

FRANCE

Head of delegation

Mr. Pierre Brochand, Minister Plenipotentiary, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations

Representatives

Mr. Christian Schricke, First Counsellor, Permanent Mission

Mr. Patrick Pascal, First Secretary, Permanent Mission

UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS

Representative

H.E. Mr. Roland M. Timerbaev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations

Alternate Representative

Mr. Nikifor Mironovich Levchenko, Senior Counsellor, Permanent Mission

Expert

Mr. Vladimir Vasilyevich Ganchin, Third Secretary, Permanent Mission

UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

Representa~ive

H.E. Mr. John A. Birch, C.M.G., Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations

Alternate Representatives

Mr. Stewart G. Eldon, First Secretary, Permanent Mission

Ms. Helen de C. Taylor, First Secretary, Permanent Mission

Mrs. Jill B. Helke, Second Secretary, Permanent Mission

-59- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Representative

Mr. Robert B. Rosenstock, Counsellor, Permanent Mission

Alternate Representatives

Mr. Robert M. Immerman, Minister-Counsellor, Permanent Mission

Mr. Jeffrey J. Buczacki, Adviser, Permanent Mission

Advisers

Ms. Lois Aroian, Office of United Nations Political and Multilateral Affairs, Bureau of International Organizations Affairs, Department of State

Mr. James D. Berg, Director, Office of Freely Associated States Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State

Specialized agencies

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

Mr. Jean S. Camara, Deputy Representative to the United Nations, Liaison Office with the United Nations, New York

UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION

Mrs. Neh Dukuly-Tolbert, Senior Liaison Officer, Office for Liaison with the United Nations, New York

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Dr. Gururaj S. Mutalik, Director, Liaison Office with the United Nations, New York * * * OFFICERS OF THE COUNCIL

President: H.E. Mr. John A. Birch, C.M.G. (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

Vice-President: Mr. Jean-Michel Gaussot (France)

-60- CHECK-LIST OF DOCUMENTS

Note: Listed below are the documents pertaining to the eighteenth special session of the Council. An asterisk after the symbol indicates that the document is published in the present fascicle.

Agenda Observations and Symbol Title or description item references

T/1914* Letter dated 24 July 1987 from the Deputy Representative of the United States of America on the Security Council addressed to the President of the Trusteeship Council

T/1915* Letter dated 7 August 1987 from 3 the Acting Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

T/1916 and Provisional agenda of the 1 Adopted by the Add.l eighteenth special session Trusteeship of the Trusteeship Council Council at its 1642nd meeting; see p. 68 of the present fascicle

T/1918 Report of the Secretary 2 For the list of General on credentials delegations, see p. 74 of the present fascicle

T/1921 Resolutions and decisions adopted Official Records by the Trusteeship Council at its of the Trusteeship seventeenth special session, Council,Seventeenth fifty-fourth session and Special Session, eighteenth special session Fifty-fourth Session and Eighteenth Special Session, Supplement No. 4

T/L.l261 Arrangements for the dispatch of a 3 Adopted by the visiting mission to observe the Trusteeship Council plebiscite in Palau, Trust at its 1642nd meeting; Territory of the Pacific Islands, see resolution 2187 August 1987: draft resolution (S-XVIII) submitted by France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

-61- Agenda Observations and Symbol Title or description item references

T/L,l262 Programme budget implications 3 of the draft resolution contained in document T/L.l261

T/RES/2187 Resolution adopted by the 3 See Official Records of (S-XVIII) Trusteeship Council at its the Trusteeship Council, eighteenth special session Seventeenth Special Session, Fifty-fourth Session and Eighteenth Special Session, fu!pplement No. 4

TICOM •.. I •• Communications 4 For the list of communications and petitions, see the annex to the agenda of the eighteenth special session, contained in the present fascicle

T/PET .. . 1 •• Petitions 4

-62- ANNEXES

DOCUMENT T/1914

Letter dated 24 July 1987 from the Deputy Representative of the United States of America on the Security Council addressed to the President of the Trusteeship Council

[Original: English]

[24 July 1987]

The Government of Palau, with legislative approval, has authorized a referendum on 4 August 1987 for the purpose of amending the Constitution of Palau.

The United States, as Administering Authority, is prepared to facilitate a Trusteeship Council visiting mission to observe the referendum should the Council so desire.

I should be grateful if you could inform the other members of the Council of this development.

(Signed) Patricia M. BYRNE

DOCUMENT T/1915

[Agenda item 3]

Letter dated 7 August 1987 from the Acting Permanent Representative of the United States of Ame~ica to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

[Original: English]

(7 August 1987]

On behalf of my Government, I hereby request a special session of the Trusteeship Council to consider the dispatch of a mission to observe a plebiscite scheduled for 21 August 1987 by the Government of Palau on the Compact of Free Association. This request is made pursuant to rule 3 of the rules of procedure of the Trusteeship Council.

My Government requests that the special session be held as soon as possible in order to permit ·the timely dispatch of such a mission.

(Signed) Herbert S. OKUN

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