A/RES/61/128 A-B exchanging information on developments in those Non-Self-Governing Territories which are reviewed by these bodies; 18. 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-second session and on the implementation of the present resolution. 79th plenary meeting 14 December 2006 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 8 and other relevant information, Taking note also of the position of the administering Power and the statements made by representatives of American Samoa in the regional seminars expressing satisfaction with the Territory’s present relationship with the United States of America, Noting that the Territory’s non-voting delegate to the Congress of the United States of America has formally requested that the administering Power declare its official position on the status of American Samoa before the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, Noting with satisfaction the establishment of the Future Political Status Study Commission, which began its work in June 2006, to study alternative forms of future political status open to American Samoa and to assess the advantages and disadvantages of each, Recalling the negative economic impacts of Cyclone Heta in 2004 and Cyclone Olaf in 2005 on the agricultural sector, noting the importance to the economy of remittances and tourism, and bearing in mind the request of the territorial Government to the administering Power to continue to extend favourable tax benefits with regard to its exports, Notes that the Department of the Interior of the United States of America 1. provides that the Secretary of the Interior has administrative jurisdiction over American Samoa; 9 Also notes that American Samoa continues to be the only United States 2. Territory to receive financial assistance from the administering Power for the _______________ 8 9 6 A/AC.109/2006/7. Pursuant to Secretary’s Order 2657, Department of the Interior, United States of America.