A/RES/67/132 A-B Cognizant of the potential usefulness of regional ties for the development of a small island Territory and of the Territory’s membership in the Caribbean Overseas Countries and Territories Council, Welcomes the desire, reflected in the Cayman Islands Review Committee 1. report of 2011, to enhance the relationship between the Territory and the administering Power in mutually beneficial ways, with a view to creating more local autonomy, and stresses the importance of the work of the Constitutional Commission, including on human rights education; Requests the administering Power to assist the Territory by facilitating its 2. work concerning public awareness outreach efforts, consistent with Article 73 b of the Charter, and in that regard calls upon the relevant United Nations organizations to provide assistance to the Territory, if requested; Welcomes the active participation of the Territory in the work of the 3. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; 4. Also welcomes the efforts made by the territorial Government to implement financial sector management policies, medical and sports tourism initiatives and unemployment alleviation programmes in various economic sectors, including agriculture and the private sector; VI Guam Taking note of the working paper prepared by the Secretariat on Guam 13 and other relevant information, Noting the statement made by the representative of the Governor of Guam at the Pacific regional seminar held in Quito from 30 May to 1 June 2012 that the colonial status of the Territory has resulted in a situation where the survival of the Chamorro people as a people in their native land is threatened and that the work of the Guam Commission on Decolonization for the Implementation and Exercise of Chamorro Self-Determination in 2011 was centred on setting a date for the plebiscite on Chamorro self-determination and on identifying the resources to fund an education campaign to inform the community of the political status issue, Cognizant of the efforts made by the Guam Commission on Decolonization to populate the decolonization registry, as required by public law, and to enhance the ability to expediently register those who have not yet been registered, Aware that, under United States law, the relations between the territorial Government and the federal Government in all matters that are not the programme responsibility of another federal department or agency are under the general administrative supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, 14 Recalling that, in a referendum held in 1987, the registered and eligible voters of Guam endorsed a draft Guam Commonwealth Act that would establish a new framework for relations between the Territory and the administering Power, providing for a greater measure of internal self-government for Guam and recognition of the right of the Chamorro people of Guam to self-determination for the Territory, _______________ 13 14 A/AC.109/2012/13. United States Congress, Organic Act of Guam, 1950, as amended. 11