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TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL OFFICIAL RECORDS

Forty-fifth session 15 May-8 June 1978

SESSIONAL FASCICLE

UNITED NATIONS TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL OFFICIAL RECORDS

Forty-fifth session 15 May-8 June 1978

SESSIONAL FASCICLE

UNITED NATIONS New York, 1980 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 vol ume contains prefatory matter and the annexes of the forty-fifth session.

* * * 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 docu ment. CONTENTS Page Agenda ...... iv Contents of the meetings ...... VI List of delegations ...... viii Officers of the Council ...... ix Check list of documents X

ANNEXES

Document No. Title

T/1787 Letter dated 17 March 1978 from the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Trusteeship Council ...... T/1789 Letter dated 19 April 1978 from the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Trusteeship Council ...... 2 T/1790 Dissemination of information on the United Nations and the In ternational Trusteeship System in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: report of the Secretary-General ...... 3 T/1791 Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for in habitants of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: report of the Secretary-General ...... 5 T/1792 Letter dated 23 May 1978 from Mr. Bailey Olter, Senator, and Mr. Raymond Setik, Representative, Congress of Micronesia, addressed to the President of the Trusteeship Council ...... 5 T/L.1211 Report of the Drafting Commictee on the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ...... 6 AGENDA

of the forty-fifth session adopted by the Council at its 1470th meeting, on 15 May 1978

1. Adoption of the agenda 2. Report of the Secretary-General on credentials 3. Election of the President and Vice-President 4. Examination of the annual report of the Administering Authority for the year ended 1 September 1977: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands 5. Examination of petitions listed in the annex to the agenda [see below] 6. Arrangements for the dispatch of a visiting mission to observe the constitutional ref erendum in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands on 12 July 1978 7. Arrangements for the dispatch of a periodic visiting mission to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, 1979 8. Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants of Trust Ter ritories: report of the Secretary-General [General Assembly resolutions 557 (VI) and 753 (VIII)] 9. Dissemination of information on the United Nations and the International Trustee ship System in Trust Territories: report of the Secretary-General [Trusteeship Coun cil resolution 36 (Ill) and General Assembly resolution 754 (VIII)] 10. Co-operation with the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination [Gen eral Assembly resolutions 2106 B (XX) and 32/13] 11. Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination [General Assembly resolutions 3057 (XXVIII) and 32/1 0] 12. Attainment of self-government or independence by 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 Declara tion on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples [General Assembly resolutions 1514 (XV) and 32/42] 13. Co-operation with the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Imple mentation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples [General Assembly resolution 1654 (XVI)] 14. Adoption of the report of the Trusteeship Council to the Security Council [Security Council resolution 70 ( 1949)]

iv ANNEX

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

Obsenations by the Admjnistermg Pewwners Document snnbols Authority Yap District Legislature ...... TICOM.l01L.208 Not required Yap District Legislature ...... TICOM.l01L.209 Not required Jackson R. Ngiraingas, Palau District ...... TICOM.l01L.210 Not required Jackson R. Ngiraingas, Palau District ...... TICOM.l01L.2ll Not required J ackson R. N giraingas, Palau District ...... TICOM.IOIL.212 Not required Moses Y. Uludong, Chairman, Tia Beluad Movement ...... TICOM.l01L.213 Not required Senator Roman Tmetuchl, Chairman, Palau Political Status Commission ...... TICOM.l01L.214 Not required Balerio U. Pedro, Angaur, Palau District ...... TICOM.l01L.215 Not required Susumu Aizawa, Magistrate, To! Municipality, Truk District TICOM.IOIL.216 Not required Congress of Micronesia (House of Representatives) ...... TICOM.l01L.2l7 Not required Central Committee, Tia Beluad Movement ...... TICOM.l01L.218 Not required Fifth Northern Mariana Islands Legislature ...... TICOM.l0/L.219 Not required Palau District Legislature (House of Elected Members) .... . T/COM.l0/L.220 Not required Jackson R. Ngiraingas, Palau District ...... TICOM.l01L.221 Not required Jackson R. Ngiraingas, Palau District ...... TICOM.l0/L.222 Not required Ronald G. Bakal on behalf of the people of Utirik Atoll, Marshal! Islands District ...... TICOM.l0/L.223 Not required Micronesia Health Co-ordinating Council ...... TICOM.l0/L.224 Not required Sadang N. Silmai, Speaker, Palau District Legislature ...... T/COM.l0/L.225 Not required Stuart Jay Beck, Wall and Beck, on behalf of the Palau District Legislature ...... T/COM.l0/L.226 Not required John 0. Ngiraked, Palau District ...... TICOM.l0/L.227 Not required Jackson R. Ngiraingas, Palau District ...... TICOM.l01L.228 Not required Congress of Micronesia (House of Representatives) ...... TICOM.l0/L.229 Not required Congress of Micronesia (Senate) ...... T/COM.l0/L.230 Not required Congress of Micronesia (Senate) ...... TICOM.l0/L.23l Not required Congress of Micronesia (Hquse of Representatives) ...... T/COM.l0/L.232 Not required Ibedul Yutaka M. Gibbons, Save Palau Organization ...... TICOM.l01L.233 Not required Palau District Legislature (House of Elected Members) .... . TICOM.l0/L.234 Not required Congress of Micronesia (Senate) ...... TIPET.I0/122 Not received Ronald G. Bakal on behalf of the people of Utirik Atoll, Marshal! Islands District ...... T/PET.I0/123 Not required Tosiwo Nakayama, President of the Senate, and Bethwel Henry, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Congress of Micronesia ...... TIP ET .101124 T/OBS.I0/44 Iroij Litokwa Tomeing, President, Voice of the Marshalls .. . T/PET.I0/125 and Add. I and 2 Congress of Micronesia ...... T/PET.l0/126 T/OBS.I0/44 Jackson R. Ngiraingas, Palau District ...... T/PET.l0/127 and Add.l and 2 Stuart Jay Beck, Wall and Beck, on behalf of the Palau Special Committee on War Damage Claims Settlements .. T/PET.I0/128 and Add. I Stuart Jay Beck, Wall and Beck, on behalf of the Palau Political Status Commission ...... T/PET.J0/129 Moses Y. Uludong and Balerio Pedro, Palau District ...... T/PET.I0/130 Michael Posner, International League for Human Rights ... . TIPET.l01131 Jonathan M. Weisgall, Counsel, Marshal! Islands Political Status Commission ...... T/PET.l0/132 and Add.! Joaquin P. Villanueva, Representative, Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Legislature ...... TiPET.l01133 Not received

V CONTENTS OF THE MEETINGS

of the forty-fifth session of the Council

NoTE: The numbers in brackets after the title of the item indicate the number of the item on the agenda.

1470th (opening) meeting 1476th meeting Monday, 15 May 1978, at 10.30 a.m. Tuesday, 23 May 1978, at 10.30 a.m. Opening of the forty-fifth session Examination of the annual report of the Administering Adoption of the agenda [ 1] Authority for the year ended 1 September 1977: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands [4] (continued) Report of the Secretary-General on credentials [2] Election of the President and Vice-President [3] 1477th meeting Programme of work Tuesday, 23 May 1978, at 3 p.m. Examination of the annual report of the Administering Examination of the annual report of the Administering Authority for the year ended 1 September 1977: Trust Authority for the year ended 1 September 1977: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands [4] Territory of the Pacific Islands [4] (continued) Programme of work · 1471st meeting Monday, 15 May 1978, at 3 p.m. 1478th meeting Examination of the annual report of the Administering Wednesday, 24 May 1978, at 3 p.m. Authority for the year ended 1 September 1977: Trust Examination of the annual report of the Administering Territory of the Pacific Islands [4] (continued) Authority for the year ended 1 September 1977: Trust Programme of work Territory of the Pacific Islands [4] (continued) Programme of work 1472nd meeting Wednesday, 17 May 1978, at 10.30 a.m. 1479th meeting Examination of the annual report of the Administering Tuesday, 30 May 1978, at 10.30 a.m. Authority for the year ended 1 September 1977: Trust · Examination of the annual report of the Administering Territory of the Pacific Islands [ 4] (continued) Authority for the year ended 1 September 1977: Trust Examination of petitions listed in the annex to the Territory of the Pacific Islands [4] (continued) agenda [5] Examination of petitions listed in the annex to the Hearing of petitioners agenda [5] (concluded) Programme of work Arrangements for the dispatch of a visiting mission to observe the constitutional referendum in the Trust l473rd meeting Territory of the Pacific Islands on 12 July 1978 [6] Thursday, 18 May 1978, at 10.30 a.m. Arrangements for the dispatch of a periodic visiting mis Examination of the annual report of the Administering sion to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, 1979 Authority for the year ended 1 September 1977: Trust [7] Territory of the Pacific Islands [ 4] (continued) Offers by Member States of study and training facilities Examination of petitions listed in the annex to the for inhabitants of Trust Territories: report of the Sec agenda [5] (continued) retary-General [General Assembly resolutions 557 Hearing of petitioners (VI) and 753 (VIII)] [8] Programme of work Dissemination of information on the United Nations and the International Trusteeship System in Trust Territo 1474th meeting ries: report of the Secretary-General [Trusteeship Friday, 19 May 1978, at 10.30 a.m. Council resolution 36 (Ill) and General Assembly res Examination of the annual report of the Administering olution 754 (Vlll)] [9] Authority for the year ended I September 1977: Trust Co-operation with the Committee on the Elimination of Territory of the Pacific Islands [4] (continued) Racial Discrimination [General Assembly resolutions Examination of petitions listed in the annex to the 2106 B (XX) and 32113] [10) agenda [5] (continued) Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Dis Hearing of petitioners crimination [General Assembly resolutions 3057 (XXVIII) and 32110)] [ 11] 1475th meeting Attainment of self-government or independence by Trust Friday, 19 May 1978, at 3 p.m. Territories [Trusteeship Council resolution 1369 Examination of the annual report of the Administering (XVII) and General Assembly resolution 1413 (XIV)] Authority for the year ended 1 September 1977: Trust and the situation in Trust Territories with regard to Territory of the Pacific Islands [4] (continued) the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting · of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples Programme of work VI [General Assembly resolutions 1514 (XV) and 32/42] 1481st meeting [12] Thursday, 8 June 1978, at 3 p.m. Co-operation with the Special Committee on the Situa Report of the Secretary-General on credentials [2] (con tion with regard to the Implementation of the Declara cluded) tion on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Co-operation with the Committee on the Elimination of Countries and Peoples [General Assembly resolution Racial Discrimination [General Assembly resolutions 1654 (XVI)] [13] 2106 B (XX) and 32113] [10] (concluded) Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Dis crimination [General Assembly resolutions 3057 (XXVlll) and 32110] [ll] (concluded) 1480th meeting Dissemination of information on the United Nations and Wednesday, 31 May 1978, at 10.30 a.m. the International Trusteeship System in Trust Territo Arrangements for the dispatch of a visiting mission to ries: report of the Secretary-General [Trusteeship observe the constitutional referendum in the Trust Council resolution 36 (Ill) and General Assembly res Territory of the Pacific Islands on 12 July 1978 [6] olution 754 (Vlll)] [9] (concluded) (concluded) Arrangements for the dispatch of a periodic visiting mis Arrangements for the dispatch of a periodic visiting mis sion to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, 1979 sion to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, 1979 [7] (concluded) [7] (continued) Examination of the annual report of the Administering Co-operation with the Committee on the Elimination of Authority for the year ended 1 September 1977: Trust Racial Discrimination [General Assembly resolutions Territory of the Pacific Islands [4] (concluded) 2106 B (XX) and 32113] [10] (continued) Adoption of the report of the Trusteeship Council to the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Dis Security Council [Security Council resolution 70 crimination [General Assembly resolutions 3057 (1949)] [14] (XXVIII) and 32/10] [11] (continued) Closure of the forty-fifth session

vii LIST OF DELEGATIONS

Members of the Council

CHINA Special Representatives [Did not participate in the session.] Mr. Adrian P. Winkel, High Commissioner for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

FRANCE Mr. Carlos S. Camacho, Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands Representatives Senior Advisers Mr. Pierre Garrigue-Guyonnaud, Counsellor, Permanent Ms. Ruth Van Cleve, Director, Office of Territorial Af Mission fairs, Department of the Interior Mr. Jean-Claude Brochenin, Counsellor, Permanent Mr. Peter R. Rosenblatt, the President's Personal Repre Mission sentative for Micronesian Status Negotiations Alternate Representatives Special Advisers Mr. Ricardo Duque, First Secretary, Permanent Mission Mr. Bailey Olter, Senator, Congress of Micronesia Miss Salome Zourabichvili, Third Secretary, Permanent Mr. Raymond Setik, Representative, Congress of Mi Mission cronesia Mr. Lorenzo I. Guerrero, President of the Senate, UNION oF SoviET SociALIST REPUBLICS Northern Mariana Islands Legislature Representative Congressional Staff Advisers H. E. Mr. M. A. Kharlamov, Ambassador Extraordi Ms. Patricia Krause, United States Congress, House of nary and Plenipotentiary, First Deputy Permanent Representatives Representative to the United Nations Mr. Thomas S. Dunmire, United States Congress, Deputy Representative House of Representatives Mr. V. P. Kovalenko, Senior Counsellor, Permanent Advisers Mission Mr. Juan Sablan, Deputy High Commissioner, Trust Advisers Territory of the Pacific Islands Mr. I. E. Kartashov, First Secretary, Ministry of For Miss Laurel M. Shea, Office of United Nations Political eign Affairs Affairs, Department of State Mr. Y. Y. Belobrov, Second Secretary, Permanent Mis Mr. David P. Stewart, Assistant Legal Adviser for sion United Nations Affairs, Department of State Mr. William Bodde, Jr., Office of Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Affairs, Department of State UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN Mr. Neiman Craley, Jr., Chairman, Micronesian Consti AND NoRTHERN IRELAND tutional Referendum Board Representative Mr. Pedro A. Tenorio, Special Assistant to the Gover Mr. Robin A. C. Byatt, Counsellor and Head of Chan nor of the Northern Mariana Islands cery, Permanent Mission Alternate Representatives Specialized agencies Ms. Sheila E. Harden, First Secretary, Permanent Mis FooD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE sion UNITED NATIONS Mr. Anthony David Brighty, First Secretary, Permanent Mr. Charles H. Weitz, Representative at the United Na Mission tions, Liaison Office with the United Nations, New Mr. Ian A. Woods, Second Secretary, Permanent Mis York sion UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SciENTIFIC AND CuLTURAL ORGANIZATION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Mr. Peter Landelius, Acting Director, Office for Liaison Representative with the United Nations, New York

Mr. Stoney Cooks, Adviser7 Permanent Mission Alternate Representative WoRLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION Mr. John Kriendler, Adviser, Political and Security Af Dr. Charles 1. Ross-Smith, Representative in Suva, Re fairs, Permanent Mission gional Office for the W estem Pacific

viii OFFICERS OF THE COUNCIL

President: Mr. Pierre GarriguecGuyonnaud (France) Vice-President: Ms. Sheila E. Harden (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

ix CHECK LIST OF DOCUMENTS

NoTE: Listed below are the documents referred to during the forty-fifth session of the Council. An asterisk after the document symbol indicates that the document is published in the present volume.

Agenda Observations and Document No. Title or description item references AI33159-SII2569 Letter dated 17 February 1978 from the representative of the Union of Soviet 4 Mimeographed Socialist Republics to the Secretary-General Sll2971 Report of the Trusteeship Council to the Security Council on the Trust Terri 14 Official Records of the Security tory of the Pacific Islands (24 June 1977-8 June 1978) Council, Thirty-third Year, Spe cial Supplement No. I Tll786 Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Government of 4 Mimeographed the United States of America on the administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands for the period from I July 1976 to I September 1977 Tll787* Letter dated 17 March 1978 from the representative of the United States of 4 America to the President of the Trusteeship Council Tll788 and Add. I Provisiona) agenda of the forty-fifth session of the Trusteeship Council Mimeographed. Adopted at the 1470th meeting of the Trustee ship Council, on 15 May 1978. See p.iv of this volume TII789* Letter dated 19 April 1978 from the representative of the United States of 4 America to the President of the Trusteeship Council Tll790* Dissemination of information on the United Nations and the International 9 Trusteeship System in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: report of the Secretary-General Tll791* Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants of the 8 Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: report of the Secretary-General Tll792* Letter dated 23 May 1978 from Mr. Bailey Olter, Senator, and Mr. Raymond 4 Setik, Representative, Congress of Micronesia, addressed to the President of the Trusteeship Council Tll793 Report of the Secretary-General on credentials 2 Mimeographed. For the list of del egations, see p.viii of this vol ume. T/1794 Resolutions adopted by the Trusteeship Council during its forty-fifth session Official Records of the Trusteeship (15 May-8 June 1978) Council, Forty-fifth Session, Supplement No. I TIL.I208 and Add. I Outline of conditions in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: working 4 For an outline of the information and 2 paper prepared by the Secretariat contained in the working paper, which was adopted by the Trus teeship Council at its 1481 st meeting, see S/12971, part 11 TIL.I209 Arrangements for the dispatch of a visiting mission to observe the constitu 6 Adopted without change at the tional referendum in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands on 12 July 1480th meeting of the Trustee 1978: draft resolution ship Council; see resolution 2165 (XLV) T!L.l210 Terms of reference of the United Nations Visiting Mission to the Trust Terri 7 Adopted without change at the tory of the Pacific Islands, 1979: draft resolution 1480th meeting of the Trustee ship Council; see resolution 2166 (XLV) T/L.I211* Report of the Drafting Committee on the Trust Territory of the Pacific Is 4 lands T!L.I212 Draft report of the Trusteeship Council to the Security Council on the Trust 14 Adopted at the 1481st meeting of Territory of the Pacific Islands covering the period from 24 June 1977 to 8 the Trusteeship Council; see SI June 1978: working paper prepared by the Secretariat 12971 , part 11 T/RES/2165(XLV) Resolution adopted by the Trusteeship Council at its forty-fifth session (15 6 See Official Records of the Trus May-8 June 1978~ teeship Council, Fortyjifth Ses sion, Supplement No. I T/RES/2166(XLV) Resolution adopted by the Trusteeship Council at its forty-fifth session (15 7 Ibid. May-8 June 1978) TICOM .. . I ... 5 Documents in this series are mim eographed TIPET ... I .. . 5 Idem T/OBS ... I .. . 5 Idem

X ANNEXES DOCUMENT T/1787 [Agenda item 4]

Letter dated 17 March 1978 from the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the Vnitcd Nations addressed to the President of the Trusteeship Council [Original: !:'ng/i1h J [28 March ftJ7Sj

There follow the observations of the United States Gov the Northern Mariana Islands, in a well-organiJcd ;11\d ernment concerning the statement contained in the letter well-attended poll, voted by a majority of almo~t XO per dated 17 February 1978 from the Permanent Representa cent to become a commonwealth of the United Stall.''· tive of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the There was no improper interference hy the Admini,tcnn).! United Nations. 1 Authority. The campaign was freely fought. The (Hlll \\a' 5 The United States Government is fully cognizant of its free and seen to be free''. responsibilities as the Administering Authority of the Trust The Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Coverml! Territory of the Pacific Islands and has carried out its ad will become fully operative only after terminatiPn PI the ministration of the T~!rritory in accordance with the princi Trusteeship Agreement, but certain of its provi,ion' tlllt tu ples of the Charter of the United Nations and the provi consistent with that Agreement have properly been imple sions of the Trusteeship Agreement. 2 mented during the period of trusteeship. The L'nited St;ttl'' In particular, the United States supports the right of the has acted on the authority conferred by the Tru,tcc,h!p peoples of the Trust Territory to self-determination. This Agreement to permit the people of the island' to draft ;t support is fully documented in the records of the Trustee constitution consistent with the Commonwealth CoH·runt ship Council and the annual reports of the Trusteeship and to establish a Government elected on the ba'i' of unt Council to the Security Council, these two bodies being versal adult suffrage. This Government was e:-.tahli,hcd on the sole United Nations organs empowered by the Charter 9 January 1978. to discharge the responsibilities of the United Nations with The question of the future status of the ~larshall and regard to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. ~aroline Islands is under negotiation and will he rc:-.oh ed In 1975, the United States concluded an agreement with m accordance. w.ith the \~ishes of the people of the i~land~. the representatives of the Northern Mariana Islands by P~esent negotlat.IOns env1s~ge a relationship of free a~~ot·i. which the islands will enter into a commonwealth relation at10n o~der ~h1ch the M1cronesians would he fullv ~clf ship with the United States following the termination of govermng With regard to internal matters. The L'nitcd the Trusteeship Agreement. 3 Stat:s h~s not exclude? othe~ possible arrangements. in The plebiscite on the Northern Mariana Islands Com cl~dmg m.dep~ndence, 1f tha~ IS the wish of the peoples oi monwealth Covenant, held in June 1975, was observed by M1cro~es1~, m the exerc1se of their right of sclf- a Visiting Mission dispatched by the Trusteeship Council determmatiOn. ~ on the invitation of the United States Government. 4 The The United States has previouslv inform"d th T h' C 'I h . . . .; ... c ruqee- Visiting Mission reported, inter alia, that "The people of s .lP thounc1 t. at 1tf1s the_ mt:ntion of the United States tCJ raise e question o termmatlon of the Trustc h' \ me t 'th th S · c cs tp ~ gree- n "":1 e ec~nty ouncil at the appropriate time~ \\'c 1 A/33/59-S/12569. For the printed text. see Official Records c~f' the Se take th~s opportumty to reaffirm the intention of the C. . d curity Council, Thirty-third Year, Supplement.f(Jr January, February and States m th1s regard. ntte March 1978. 2 Trusteeship Agreement for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands I request that this letter be circulated as ff . 1 (United Nations publication, Sales No. 1957. VI.A.l ). ment of the Trusteeship Council. an ° ICla d0cu- 1 · For the text of the Covenant, see O.fjicial Records

Letter dated 19 April 1978 from the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Trusteeship Council

[Original: English] [2 May 1978]

I enclose the text of the statement of agreed principles negotiated prior to the end of the Trusteeship Agree for free association for Micronesia which was signed by ment. representatives of the Congress of Micronesia Commission 6. The peoples of Micronesia will have authority and on Future Political Status and Transition, the Marshall Is responsibility for their foreign affairs, including marine lands Political Status Commission, the Palau Political resources. They will consult with the United States in Status Commission and the United States of America on 9 the exercise of this authority and will refrain from April 1978 at Hilo, Hawaii. actions which the United States determines to be incom I would appreciate it if the statement of agreed princi patible with its authority and responsibility for security ples could be circulated as an official document of the and defence matters in or relating to Micronesia. The Trusteeship Council. United States may act on behalf of the peoples of Mi cronesia in the area of foreign affairs as mutually agreed (Signed) Andrew YouNG upon from time to time. 7. The agreement will permit unilateral termination of the free association political status by the processes ENCLOSURE through which it was entered and set forth in the agree ment and subject to the continuation of the United States STATEMENT OF AGREED PRINCIPLES FOR FREE defence authority and responsibility as set forth in prin ASSOCIATION FOR MICRONESIA ciple 5 above, but any plebiscite terminating the free as sociation political status will not require United Nations The following statement of principles was signed on 9 observation. April 1978, at Hilo, Hawaii. 8. Should the free association political status be mu 1. An agreement of free association will be con tually terminated, the United States economic assistance cluded on a government-to-government basis and exe shall continue as mutually agreed. Should the United cuted prior to termination of the United Nations trustee States terminate the free association relationship, its ship. During the life of the agreement, the political economic assistance to Micronesia shall continue at the status of the peoples of Micronesia shall remain that of levels and for the term initially agreed. If the agreement free association as distinguished from independence. is otherwise terminated the United States shall no longer The agreement will be subject to the implementing au be obligated to provide the same amounts of economic thority of the Congress of the United States of America. assistance for the remainder of the term initially agreed 2. The agreement of free association will be put to a upon. An early free association agreement, based on the United Nations observed plebiscite. foregoing eight principles, shall be pursued by the par 3. Constitutional arrangements for the governance of ties. Micronesia shall be in accord with the political status of free association as set forth in these principles. (Signed) Bailey 0LTER 4. The peoples of Micronesia will enjoy full internal Committee on Future Political Status self-government. of the Commission 5. The United States will have full authority and re on Future Political Status and Transition sponsibility for security and defence matters in or relat ing to Micronesia, including the establishment of neces (Signed) Amata KABUA sary military facilities and the exercise of appropriate Marshal! Islands Political Status Commission operating rights. The peoples of Micronesia will refrain from actions which the United States determines after (Signed) Roman TMETUCHL appropriate consultations to be incompatible with its au Palau Political Status Commission thority and responsibility for security and defence mat ters in or relating to Micronesia. This authority and re (Signed) Peter R. RosENBLATT sponsibility will be assured for 15 years, and thereafter United States of America as mutually agreed. Specific land arrangements will re President's Personal Representative main in effect according to their terms which shall be for Micronesian Status Negotiations

2 DOCUMENT T/1790 [Agenda item 9]

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] [16 May 1978]

1. By Trusteeship Council resolution 36 (Ill) of 8 July covering the sixth session of the Third United Nations 1948 and General Assembly resolution 754 (VIII) of 9 De Conference on the Law of the Sea were made available to cember 1953, the Secretary-General and the Administering government officials, the media and schools, including the Authorities concerned were requested to co-operate in en Community College of Micronesia. suring an adequate flow of suitable information, including 8. Further, pamphlets on such issues as decolonization, records of the Trusteeship Council and material concerning disarmament and human rights were sent directly to the the aims and activities of the United Nations, to the gen Division of Public Affairs of the Office of the High Com eral public in the Trust Territories, and to inform the missioner in Saipan. Posters and photographs were also Council periodically of the action taken. The present report forwarded to that Office for use in programmes designed covers the period from I May 1977 to 30 April 1978. to further the political education of the people of Micro 2. During the period under review, the United Nations nesia. Films produced by the United Nations continue to Information Centre at Washington, D.C., continued to in be shown throughout the Territory in connexion with the form the people of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Is same programme. lands about the International Trusteeship System and about 9. The serial publications Decolonization and Objec the aims and activities of the United Nations. The Centre tive: Justice were sent on a regular basis to approximately distributed 63 copies of official records6 to 10 addresses in 60 addresses in Micronesia. the Trust Territory supplied by the Administering Author 10. During the period under review, the Information ity, including the libraries of the district legislatures, of Centre at Washington, D.C., also distributed 100 copies of fices of the district administrators and the mass media. the publication entitled The United Nations 16mm Cata 3. The documentation of the forty-fourth session of the logue, 1977-1978 to schools, libraries and government of Trusteeship Council as well as press releases covering its fices in the Trust Territory, to make them fully aware of deliberations were sent as they were issued to newspapers, all the latest films available at the United Nations. The magazines and radio stations in Micronesia. Documents Centre has also written to the Division of Public Affairs of and releases were also sent to the libraries of the Congress the Office of the High Commission to offer assistance in · of Micronesia, the district legislatures, the Office of the making United Nations films available. High Commissioner, the district' administrators, the Com 11. For several years, the Photographs and Exhibits munity College of Micronesia and other schools. Section of the Office of Public Information has made 4. At the request of the Chief of the Broadcast Division available copies of wallsheets on various subjects of partic of the Office of the High Commissioner of the Trust Terri ular interest to the Trust Territory. Photographs showing tory, full tapes of the Council's deliberations were sent to the proceedings of the Trusteeship Council meetings have the Territory by the Office of Public Information of t_he regularly been sent to the Division of Public Affairs, Secretariat. The Division subsequently produced a senes which is concerned with the political education of the peo of radio programmes on the session which were distributed ple regarding the international trusteeship system, self to the radio stations of the six districts and broadcast dur determination and independence. ing the week preceding United Nations Day. 12. During the period under review, the Information 5. The message by the President of the Trusteeship Centre made a special effort to draw the attention of Trust Council on the occasion of United Nations Day was sent Territory students to offers by Member States of study and by air mail to the directors of radio stations and to edit?rs · training facilities. Documents of the Trusteeship Council of newspapers and magazines, who were asked to prov1de and of the General Assembly on this subject were distrib assistance in disseminating it to the public as well as to uted in the Trust Territory, including documents T/1 783/ government offices and schools .. A/32/277 and General Assembly resolution 32/38 of 28 6. The United Nations Day message of the Secretary November 1977. Together with its mailing of the Assem General was sent to the Trust Territory and to the Northern bly resolution to 100 addresses, the Centre included de Mariana Islands by telegram to ensure its availability for scriptions of scholarships available to students in the Trust radio broadcast and to the press in time for the observance Territory taken from the handbook Study Abroad, twenty of the anniversary. first edition (1977178-1978179), published by the United 7. Because of the special interest of the Trust Territory Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in issues concerned with the law of the sea, press releases (UNESCO). As a result of this effort, the Centre received requests for additional information, and an article on the study and training·facilities available appeared in the news paper Marianas Variety, of 16 March 1978. 6 Official Records of the Trusteeship Council (verbatim records of th_e meetings, annexes and supplements, including resolullons of the Council 7 and reports of the visiting missions) and the report of the Trusteeship For the printed text, see Official Records of the Trusteeship Council. Council to the Security Council. Forty-fourth Session, Sessional Fascicfe, annexes. 3 13. The radio programmes "This Week at the UN", source from which to provide the Trust Territory with "Scope" and "Perspective" were sent directly to the Of United Nations informational material had been warmly fice of the High Commissioner and to each of the districts advocated and endorsed by all responsible officials. He where they were rebroadcast in local languages on a bi stated that the High Commissioner, in a letter dated I De weekly basis. Copies of the Weekly News Summary were cember 1977 addressed to the Office of Territorial Affairs sent by the Centre to 100 addresses in the Trust Territory, of the United States Department of the Interior, had offi as well as to the six local radio stations where they were cially suggested that responsibility for disseminating infor translated and broadcast on news programmes. mation to the Trust Territory should be transferred from 14. At the request of a number of Micronesian visitors the Washington Centre to the Tokyo Centre, especially in to the Informatibn Centre at Washington, D. C., during view of the advanta~es resulting from the latter's geo 1977, material relating to the activities of the United Na graphical proximity, as well as its physical accessibility to tions were sent to a number of institutions in the Territory, the islands for consultation, co-ordination and follow-up. including private high schools and hospitals. 19. In that connexion, the Director of the Tokyo Centre 15. Several specialized agencies and United Nations stated that the Office of the High Commissioner had also bodies, including the World Health Organization (WHO), designated new channels of communication with the the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Na Tokyo Centre, through which United Nations informa tions (FAO) and the Economic and Social Commission for tional material could be distributed in a more effective Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), also transmitted to the manner, thereby improving the over-all dissemination and Trust Territory material dealing with the aims, objectives utilization of that material throughout Micronesia. The Di and activities of the organizations concerned. rector of the Trust Territory Office of Planning and Statis 16. In view of the continuing difficulties faced by the tics had been given responsibility for United Nations infor Centre in disseminating information in the Trust Territory, mation matters. A similar operation was being initiated by owing to the geographical location of the islands, it has the Office of the Resident Commissioner for the Northern been agreed, in consultation with the Office of Territorial Mariana Islands. Affairs of the United States Department of the Interior, that the United Nations Information Centre at Tokyo will ANNEX assist with the dissemination of information in Micronesia. The Tokyo Centre will assume responsibility for the actual List of United Nations publications distributed in the Trust dissemination of material in the Territory, while the Centre Territory of the Pacific Islands at Washington, D.C., will devote more attention to in forming the people in the United States about the work of Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of the Trusteeship Council and about issues relating to the Justice Trust Territory. In addition, the Washington Centre will UN in Brief foster closer contacts with the United States Department of 1977-The United Nations and the Environment: A Student Map of the the Interior and the State Department, co-operate more United Nations closely with the representatives of the Congress of Mi UN Todav (Suggestions for Speakers) cronesia in Washington, D.C., and continue to inform se United Nations-Instrumel1t of Peace nior members of the United States Congress about the de The International Court of Justice liberations of the Trusteeship Council. The. Geneva Protocol. 50th Anniversary 17. At the request of the Director of the External Rela Decolonizati~n tions Division of the Office of Public Information, the Di United Nations and Decolonization rector of the United Nations Information Centre at Tokyo Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples made a four-day visit to the Trust Territory in December Special Committee of 24-What it is-What it does-How it works 1977 and conferred with a number of officials on ways and Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones means of improving the dissemination and utilization of Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons United Nations informational materials in the Territory, in Disarmament Decade cluding the Northern Mariana Islands. He also discussed The United Nations and Human Rights the matter with experts of the United Nations Development Declaration of the Rights of the Child Programme (UNDP) serving as economic advisers to the lll!ernational Covenants on Human Rights and Optional Protocol Office of the High Commissioner. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 18. In his report to the Office of Public Information, World Plan of Action: A Summarized Version-UN Decade for Women dated 22 December 1977, the Director of the Tokyo Centre 1975-1985 indicated that the designation of the Tokyo Centre as the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea

4 DOCUMENT T/1791 [Agenda item 8]

Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: report of the Secretary-General [Original: English] [24 May 1978]

1. By resolutions 557 (VI) of 18 January 1952 and 753 Trusteeship Council at its thirty-sixth session. 9 (VIII) of 9 December 1955, the General Assembly invited 5. Up-to-date information concerning the scholarships Member States to make available to qualified students made available under the programme, as well as the extent from Trust Territories scholarships, fellowships and intern to which awards had been made to, and utilized by, stu ships for university study and post-primary and technical dents from the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, was education. requested by the Secretary-General in a note dated 10 2. The programme is administered in accordance with April 1978 addressed to Member States that had offered the procedure approved by the Trusteeship Council at its scholarships in previous years. 8 thirteenth session. Under this procedure, the Secretary 6. At 24 May 1978, information had been received General was invited to submit to the Trusteeship Council from one offering State, namely the Union of S-oviet So at least once a year a report containing all appropriate de cialist Republics. tails of the programme. The present report is the twenty 7. In a note dated 24 May 1978, the Permanent Mission seventh such report and covers the period· from I June of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics informed the 1977 to 24 May 1978. Secretary-General that, at present, no inhabitants from the 3. As stated in previous reports, 11 Member States had Trust Territories were studying in the Soviet Union. in the past made scholarships available under this pro 8. Information on the scholarships made available under gramme. Those Member States were the following: Czech the programme is included in the handbook Study Abroad, oslovakia, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Pakistan, twenty-first edition (1977178-1978179), published by the Philippines, Poland, Tunisia, Union of Soviet Socialist Re United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organ publics and Yugoslavia. ization (UNESCO). Copies of Study Abroad are sent to the 4. A description of the scholarships offered by Member Administering Authority and to United Nations informa States is contained in the eighteenth report submitted to the tion centres.

"Ibid., Thirteenth Session, Annexes. agenda item 13, document T/ 9 Ibid., Thirty-sixth Session. Annexes, agenda item 10, document Tl 1093. 1696.

DOCUMENT T/1792 [Agenda item 4] Letter dated 23 May 1978 from Mr. Bailey Olter, Senator, and Mr. Raymond Setik, Representative, Congress of Micronesia, addressed to the President of the Trusteeship Council [Original: English] [25 May 1978] As mentioned in our closing statement before the forty-fifth session of the Trustee ship Council, 10 we are herewith transmitting, for the use and information of Council members, materials relating to political education efforts in Micronesia. 11 While we have no knowledge of who directed that the "Negative Provisions" pa per be prepared, or who did the writing, we have assumed by its very content that it was prepared by proponents for the separation of Palau. At the request of the pro-unity petitioners from Palau, the staff of the Congress of Micronesia in New York drafted a presentation to ensure that certain misleading state ments and erroneous conclusions are not drawn. Because the "Negative Provisions" pa per is not attributable to any one person or group, we have not raised the issue exten sively in the Council. However, we feel that its circulation among the members [of the Council] and staff of the Secretariat who soon will be visiting Micronesia will be of as sistance and use to them. Likewise, we offer our annotations of the paper, in order to demonstrate the straightforward approach the Congress of Micronesia is taking in the general issue of the referendum and the constitution.

(Signed) Senator Bailey 0LTER (Signed) Representative Raymond SETIK 10 See T!PV.l478. 11 Ibid., p. 39-40. 5 DOCUMENT T/L.l211 [Agenda item 4]

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

[Original: English] [2 June 1978]

I. At its 1477th meeting, on 23 May 1978, the Trustee 4. The Committee recommends to the Trusteeship ship Council appointed a drafting committee composed of Council that it adopt the revised working paper on condi the representatives of France and the United Kingdom of tions in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (T/L.l208 Great Britain and Northern Ireland to propose, on the basis and Add. I and 2) as the basic text for the chapter on con of the discussions which had taken place in the Council, ditions in that Territory to be included in the next report of conclusions and recommendations on conditions in the the Trusteeship Council to the Security Council. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and to make recom 5. The Committee also recommends that the Trustee mendations concerning the chapter on conditions in that ship Council adopt the conclusions and recommendations Territory for inclusion in the next report of the Trusteeship set out in the annex and include them at the end of the .re Council to the Security Council. port. 2. The Drafting Committee held four meetings. It had the benefit of the assistance of representatives of the Ad ministering Authority. ANNEX 3. In the light of the general discussions in the Trustee Draft conclusions and recommendations ship Council on conditions in the Territory, the Committee drafted a number of conclusions and recommendations [For the text of the conclusions and recommendations adopted, as re which it considered as reflecting the opinions of the major vised, at the 148/stmeeting of the Trusteeship Council, on 8 June 1978, ity of the members of the Council and which are set forth see Official Records of the Security Council, Thirty-third Year, Special in the annex to the present report. Supplement No. I, part JJ.]

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