T/1816 REPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS VISITING MISSION TO THE TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS, 1980 TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL OFFICIAL RECORDS: FORTY -SEVENTH SESSION (May-June 1980) SUPPLEMENT No. 2 UNITED NATIONS T/1816 REPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS VISITING MISSION TO THE TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS, 1980 TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL OFFICIAL RECORDS: FORTY-SEVENTH SESSION (May-June 1980) SUPPLEMENT No. 2 UNITED NATIONS New York, 1980 NOTE 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. T/1816 CONTENTS Chapter Paragraphs Page Letter of transmittal vi I. GENERAL • 1 - 173 1 A. Terms of reference •.• 1 - 2 1 B. Composition • 3 1 c. Itinerary . • • • ••. 4 - 8 2 D. Land and people • 9 - 10 2 E. History • 11 18 3 F. Programme of visits and meetings. 19 - 173 4 1. Marshall Islands. 20 - 41 5 2. Ponape. 42 - 71 8 3. Kosrae. 72 - 82 13 4. Truk. 83 - 110 15 5. Yap •• .111 - 124 19 6. Palau • .125 - 151 22 7. Northern Mariana Islands •• .152 - 170 26 8. Heetings with students in Honolulu 29 and Guam, • • • • • • • .171 - 173 29 II. POLITICAL ADVANCE}lliNT .174 - 241 30 A. General •• .174 - 181 30 B. Territorial Government. .182 - 201 32 c. Local governments • . .202 - 209 37 1. State governments .202 - 204 37 2. Municipalities. .205 - 209 37 D. Civil service .210 - 219 38 E. Judiciary .220 - 225 40 F. Political education • .226 - 241 41 III. ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT. .242 - 334 45 A. General • . .242 - 244 45 B. Nature of the problem .245 - 255 46 1. Structural data .246 - 249 46 2. New data •• . .250 - 255 46 C. Public finance. .256 - 258 48 D. Taxation •••• .259 - 260 48 -iii- Chapter Paragraphs Page E. Land . 261 - 270 49 1. Tenure . 261 - 263 49 2. Disputes and registration. 264 49 3. Public lands . 265 - 266 50 4. Cadastral survey . 267 - 268 50 5. General. 269 - 270 50 F. Agriculture and livestock. 271 - 284 51 1. Constraints. 271- 276 51 2. Copra. 277 - 282 52 3. Livestock. 283 - 284 53 G. Forestry . 285 - 286 54 H. Fisheries. 287 - 294 55 1. Achievements . 287 - 292 55 2. Constraints . 293 56 3. Observations . 294 56 I. Transportation . 295 - 308 57 1. Sea transport. 297 - 301 57 2. Air transport. 302 - 306 58 3. Roads. 307 - 308 59 J. Tourism. 309 - 312 59 K. Investments. 313 - 317 60 L. International assistance . 318 - 327 61 H. Third United Nations Conference on the Lm-.r of the Sea 328 - 334 63 IV. SOCIAL ADVANCE}lliNT . 335 - 391 65 A. Medical and health services. 335 358 65 1. General. 335 - 338 65 2. Staffing 339 - 341 66 3. Health facilities 342 - 350 66 4. Medical referrals. 351 - 352 68 5. Public health. 353 - 358 69 B. Population grm-.rth and family planning. 359 - 363 70 c. Community development. 364 - 369 72 -iv- Chapter Paragraphs Page D. Low-cost housing . 370 -372 72 E. Status of women and women's organizations. 373 - 376 73 F. Youth questions. 377 - 380 74 G. Peace Corps. 381 - 386 75 H. Disaster relief for Hajuro . 387 - 391 76 v. EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT . 392 - 462 78 A. General . 392 - 399 78 B. School construction . 400 - 401 79 c. Elementary education . 402 - 407 80 D. Secondary education. 408 - 413 81 E. Vocational education . 414 426 82 F. Private schools. 427 - 429 85 G. Staffing . 430 - 438 85 H. Curricula . 439 - 445 86 I. Higher education . 446 - 455 87 J. Dissemination of information on the United Nations . 456 - 462 89 VI. WAR AND POST-WAR DANAGE CLAIMS . 463 - 494 91 A. War damage . 463 - 474 91 B. Post-war damage. 475 - 494 93 VII. MILITARY FACILITIES. 495 - 505 98 A. Missile range. • 495 - 503 98 B. Retention land . 504 - 505 99 VIII. POLITICAL FUTURE . 506 - 539 101 A. Internal organization. 506 - 511 101 B. Future political status. 512 - 522 102 1. Historical synopsis. 512 - 516 102 2. Views expressed. 517 - 522 104 c. Relations with the United States 523 - 532 106 D. Other external relations 533 - 539 107 IX. ACKNOHLEDGE~IENTS . 540 - 545 110 ANNEX: ITINERARY OF THE VISITING HISSION. 111 }!AP. • . " . 1?0 -v- LETTER OF TRJ0TSMITTAL 12 I:fay 1980 Sir, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith, in accordance with Trusteeship Council resolution 2166 (XLV) of 31 :t-fay 1978 and rule 98 of the rules of procedure of the Council, the report of the United Nations Visiting Hission to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, 1980. This report is subscribed to by both the members of the Visiting Hission. Accept, Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration. (Signed) Sheila HARDEN Chairwoman of the Visiting ~lission to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, 1980 His Exc.ellency, Hr. 1\.urt Haldheim Secretary-General, United Nations Ne~., York, N. Y. 10017 -vi- CHAPTER I GENERAL A. Terms of reference 1. At its 1480th meeting on 31 May 1978, the Trusteeship Council adopted resolution 2166 (XLV), by which it decided to dispatch a periodic visiting mission to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands i~ 1979. During its fourteenth special session, on 15 February 1979, the Council decided to defer the dispatch of the periodic visiting mission to early 1980 since two visiting missions were already scheduled to visit the Trust Territory in 1979 to observe constitutional referenda. 2. By the same resolution, the Council decided that the Mission should be composed of members of the Council wishing to participate, with the exception of the United States of America, the Administering Authority, which was requested to provide an escort officer. It directed the Visiting Mission to investigate and report as fully as possible on the steps taken in the Trust Territory towards the realization of the objectives set forth in Article 76 b of the Charter of the United Nations, and to pay special attention to the question of the future of the Territory, in the light of the relevant Articles of the Charter and the Trusteeship Agreement 1/. The Council also directed the Mission to give attention, as appropriate, in the light of discussion in the Trusteeship Council and of resolutions adopted by it, to issues raised in connexion with the annual reports on the administration of the Territory, in the petitions received by the Council concerning the Territory, in the reports of the previous periodic visiting missions to the Territory and in the observations of the Administering Authority on th.ose reports. The Mission was further directed to receive petitions, without prejudice to its action, in accordance with the rules of procedure of the Council, and to investigate on the spot such of the petitions as, in its opinion, warranted special investigation. Finally, the Council requested the Mission to submit to the Council as soon as practicable a report on its visit to the Territory containing its findings, with such observations, conclusions and recommendations as it might wish to make. B. Composition 3. The Visiting Mission was composed of the following members: Ms. Sheila Harden (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) (Chairwoman) Ms. Bernadette Lefort (France) ll Trusteeship Agreement for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (United Nations Publication, Sales No. 1957.VI.A.I). -1- The Mission was accompanied by the following members of the United Nations Secretariat Mr. Girma Abebe, Principal Secretary Mr. Ozdinch Mustafa, Political Affairs Officer Mr. Tayeb Merchoug, Political Affairs Officer Ms. Patricia Vingo, Administrative Officer Mr. Henri Pieters, Secretary/Stenographer The Mission was escorted by Mr. James C. Gray, Jr., Adviser, United States Mission to the United Nations. C. Itinerary 4. On 5 February 1980, the Visiting Mission held preliminary discussions in New York with Ambassador Peter Rosenblatt, Personal Representative of the President of the United States for Micronesian Status Negotiations. 5. The Hission left New York for the Trust Territory on 27 February and en route stopped in Honolulu to meet with Micronesian students at the University of Hawaii. 6. The Mission began its visit to the Trust Territory at Enewetak~ Marshall Islands, on 1 March and ended it on 29 March at Saipan, Mariana Islands. On 24 March, it stopped in Guam in order to meet with Micronesian students at the University of Guam. 7. In the course of its tour, the Mission received a number of written communications which were taken into account in the preparation of its report. The texts of these communications are filed and available for inspection in the United Nations Secretariat. 8. During its visit to the Trust Territory, the ~1ission was accompanied in the Marshall Islands, Ponape and Truk by Mr. Clarence E. Takeuchi, and in the Yap and Palau and at Trust Territory Headquarters in Saipan by Mr. N. Neiman Craley, Jr., both from the Trust Territory Government. D. Land and people 9. The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands consists of three archipelagos: the Marshalls, the Carolines and the Marianas. The latter includes Guam, which is not part of the Trust Territory but is an unincorporated Territory of the United States. The Trust Territory includes more than 2,100 islands scattered over an area of some 7.8 million s~uare kilometres in the western -2- Pacific, an area about the same as the land area of the continental United States. These islands, about 100 of which are inhabited, have a combined land area of approximately 1,850 square kilometres. They are grouped in four administrative entities: the Northern Mariana Islands, the Marshall Islands, and, in the Caroline archipelago, the Federated States of Micronesia (comprising Kosrae, Ponape, Truk and Yap) and Palau.