A/RES/57/138 A-B Aware that negotiations between the administering Power and the territorial Government on the draft Guam Commonwealth Act are no longer continuing and that Guam has established the process for a self-determination vote by the eligible Chamorro voters, Cognizant that the administering Power continues to implement its programme of transferring surplus federal land to the Government of Guam, Noting that the people of the Territory have called for reform in the programme of the administering Power with respect to the thorough, unconditional and expeditious transfer of land property to the people of Guam, Conscious that immigration into Guam has resulted in the indigenous Chamorros becoming a minority in their homeland, Aware of the potential for diversifying and developing the economy of Guam through commercial fishing and agriculture and other viable activities, Noting the proposed closing and realigning of four United States Navy installations on Guam and the request for the establishment of a transition period to develop some of the closed facilities as commercial enterprises, Recalling the dispatch in 1979 of a United Nations visiting mission to the Territory, and noting the recommendation of the 1996 Pacific regional seminar for sending a visiting mission to Guam, 12 Taking note with interest of the statements made and the information on the political and economic situation in Guam provided by the representatives of the Territory to the Pacific regional seminar, held at Nadi, Fiji, from 14 to 16 May 2002, 13 Concerned that the latest census figures in the Territory show that the percentage of persons living in poverty increased from 14 per cent in 1990 to 23 per cent in 2000, 1. Requests the administering Power to work with Guam’s Commission on Decolonization for the Implementation and Exercise of Chamorro SelfDetermination with a view to facilitating Guam’s decolonization and to keep the Secretary-General informed of the progress to that end; 2. Calls upon the administering Power to take into consideration the expressed will of the Chamorro people as supported by Guam voters in the plebiscite of 1987 and as provided for in Guam law, encourages the administering Power and the territorial Government of Guam to enter into negotiations on the matter, and requests the administering Power to inform the Secretary-General of progress to that end; 3. Requests the administering Power to continue to assist the elected territorial Government in achieving its political, economic and social goals; 4. Also requests the administering Power, in cooperation with the territorial Government, to continue to transfer land to the original landowners of the Territory; _______________ 12 See A/AC.109/2058, para. 33 (20). See A/57/23 (Part I), chap. II, annex, para. 39. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 23. 13 12