A/RES/63/108 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-fourth session and on the implementation of the present resolution. 64th plenary meeting 5 December 2008 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 expressing satisfaction with the Territory’s present relationship with the United States of America, Aware of the work of the Future Political Status Study Commission, completed in 2006, and the release of its report, with recommendations, in January 2007, to help the Territory study alternative forms of future political status open to American Samoa and to assess the advantages and disadvantages of each, Noting, in that regard, the information contained in the paper provided by Chairman of the Future Political Status Study Commission and distributed at 2008 Pacific regional seminar requesting the Special Committee to review Territory’s status as a Non-Self-Governing Territory, with a view to accepting Territory’s future political status once chosen by its people, the the the the 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, and calling upon the administering Power to assist the territorial Government in the diversification of its economy, Welcomes the work of the territorial Government and legislature with 1. regard to the recommendations made by the Future Political Status Study Commission in preparation for a constitutional convention addressing issues related to the future status of American Samoa; Stresses the importance of the invitation previously extended to the 2. Special Committee by the Governor of American Samoa to send a visiting mission to the Territory, calls upon the administering Power to facilitate such a mission if _______________ 7 A/AC.109/2008/3. 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