A/RES/65/115 A-B 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-sixth session and on the implementation of the present resolution. 62nd plenary meeting 10 December 2010 B INDIVIDUAL TERRITORIES The General Assembly, Referring to resolution A above, I American Samoa Taking note of the working paper prepared by the Secretariat on American Samoa 7 and other relevant information, Aware that under United States law the Secretary of the Interior has administrative jurisdiction over American Samoa, 8 Noting the position of the administering Power and the statements made by representatives of American Samoa in regional seminars 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, Noting, in that regard, the statement made by the Governor of American Samoa at the Pacific regional seminar held in Nouméa from 18 to 20 May 2010, and previous policy papers presented to the Special Committee, in which he stated that, while the Territory’s status was akin to being self-governing, it was time to forge a more collaborative approach between the Territory and the administering Power, Acknowledging the indication by the territorial Government that the effects of certain federal laws on the Territory’s economy are serious cause for concern, Aware that American Samoa continues to be the only United States Territory to receive financial assistance from the administering Power for the operations of the territorial Government, _______________ 7 A/AC.109/2010/12. 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. 8 6