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Noting the proposed closing and realigning of four United States Navy installations on Guam and the
request for the establishment of a transition period to develop some of the closed facilities as commercial
enterprises,
Recalling the dispatch in 1979 of a United Nations visiting mission to the Territory, and noting the
recommendation of the 1996 Pacific regional seminar for sending a visiting mission to Guam,5
Noting with interest the statements made and the information on the political and economic situation
in Guam provided by the representatives of the Territory to the Caribbean regional seminar, held at
Castries, Saint Lucia, from 25 to 27 May 1999,
1. Requests the administering Power to work with Guam’s Commission on Decolonization for the
Implementation and Exercise of Chamorro Self-Determination with a view to facilitating the
decolonization of Guam, and to keep the Secretary-General informed of progress to that end;
2. Calls upon the administering Power to take into consideration the expressed will of the Chamorro
people as endorsed by the people of Guam, encourages the administering Power and the territorial
Government of Guam to continue the negotiations on the matter, and requests the administering Power
to inform the Secretary-General of progress to that end;
3. Requests the administering Power to continue to assist the elected territorial Government in
achieving its political, economic and social goals;
4. Also requests the administering Power, in cooperation with the territorial Government, to
continue to transfer land to the people of the Territory;
5. Further requests the administering Power to continue to recognize and respect the political rights
and the cultural and ethnic identity of the Chamorro people of Guam, and to take all necessary measures
to respond to the concerns of the territorial Government with regard to the question of immigration;
6. Requests the administering Power to cooperate in establishing programmes specifically intended
to promote the sustainable development of economic activities and enterprises, noting the special role of
the Chamorro people in the development of Guam;
7. Also requests the administering Power to continue to support appropriate measures by the
territorial Government aimed at promoting growth in commercial fishing and agricultural and other viable
activities;
VII. Montserrat
Taking note with interest of the statements made and the information on the political and economic
situation in Montserrat provided by the elected representatives of the Territory to the Caribbean regional
seminar, held at Castries, Saint Lucia, from 25 to 27 May 1999,
5
See A/AC.109/2058, para. 33 (20).
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