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within the framework of their respective mandates, with the aim of exchanging
information on developments in those Non-Self-Governing Territories which are
reviewed by those bodies;
16. Also requests the Special Committee to continue to examine the question
of the Non-Self-Governing Territories and to report thereon to the General
Assembly at its sixty-eighth session and on the implementation of the present
resolution.
59th plenary meeting
18 December 2012
B
INDIVIDUAL TERRITORIES
The General Assembly,
Referring to resolution A above,
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American Samoa
Taking note of the working paper prepared by the Secretariat on American
Samoa 7 and other relevant information,
Noting the statement made by the representative of the Governor of American
Samoa at the Pacific regional seminar held in Quito from 30 May to 1 June 2012
that the Territory’s position that it should be removed from the United Nations list
of the Non-Self-Governing Territories continued to hold, that it was time to make
political and economic progress while respecting the concerns of the administering
Power and the United Nations, and that there was a need for a more structured
approach to determine the will of the people with a detailed workplan on how best
to gauge the will of the people on political status,
Aware that, under United States law, the Secretary of the Interior has
administrative jurisdiction over American Samoa, 8
Recalling the position of the administering Power and the statements made by
representatives of American Samoa at regional seminars, including at the 2011
Caribbean regional seminar, inviting the Special Committee on the Situation with
regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to
Colonial Countries and Peoples to send a visiting mission to the Territory,
Aware of the work of the Future Political Status Study Commission, completed in
2006, the release of its report, with recommendations, in January 2007 and the
creation of the American Samoa Constitutional Review Committee in the Territory,
as well as the holding in June 2010 of American Samoa’s fourth Constitutional
Convention,
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A/AC.109/2012/11.
United States Congress, 1929 (48 U.S.C. Sec. 1661, 45 Stat. 1253), and Secretary’s Order 2657,
Department of the Interior, United States of America, 1951, as amended.
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