A/RES/62/118 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-third session and on the implementation of the present resolution. 75th plenary meeting 17 December 2007 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, 6F Noting 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 also that the Department of the Interior of the United States of America provides that the Secretary of the Interior has administrative jurisdiction over American Samoa, 8 7F Noting further 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 continue to assist the territorial Government in the diversification of its economy, 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 also the statement of the representative of the Governor of the Territory at the Pacific regional seminar, held on Yanuca Island, Fiji, from 28 to 30 November 2006, requesting the Special Committee to review the Territory’s status as a Non-Self-Governing Territory, Welcomes the establishment of the Future Political Status Study 1. Commission, which began its work in June 2006 and prepared its report in January 2007, to study alternative forms of future political status open to American Samoa and to assess the advantages and disadvantages of each; Stresses the importance of the invitation previously extended to the 2. Special Committee by the Governor of American Samoa to send a visiting mission _______________ 7 8 6 A/AC.109/2007/15. Pursuant to Secretary’s Order 2657, Department of the Interior, United States of America.