Questions of American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guam, Montserrat, Pitcairn, Saint Helena, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands A/RES/68/95 A-B 14. Reiterates its request that the Human Rights Committee collaborate with the Special Committee, within the framework of its mandate on the right to self determination as contained in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 5 with the aim of exchanging information, given that the Human Rights Committee is mandated to review the situation, including political and constitutional developments, in many of the Non-Self-Governing Territories that are within the purview of the Special Committee; 15. Requests the Special Committee to continue to collaborate with the Economic and Social Council and its relevant subsidiary intergovernmental bodies, within the framework of their respective mandates, with the aim of exchanging information on developments in those Non-Self-Governing Territories which are reviewed by those bodies; 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-eighth session and on the implementation of the present resolution. 65th plenary meeting 11 December 2013 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, Recalling the statement made by the representative of the Governor of American Samoa at the Pacific regional seminar held in Quito from 30 May to 1 June 2012 that the Territory’s position that it should be removed from the United Nations list of the Non-Self-Governing Territories continued to hold, that it was time to make political and economic progress while respecting the concerns of the administering Power and the United Nations, and that there was a need for a more structured approach to determine the will of the people with a detailed workplan on how best to gauge the will of the people on political status, Aware that, under United States law, the Secretary of the Interior has administrative jurisdiction over American Samoa, 9 Recalling the position of the administering Power and the statements made by representatives of American Samoa at regional seminars, including at the 2011 _______________ 8 A/AC.109/2013/11. 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. 9 6/17