A/RES/69/105 A-B
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
Aware of the follow-up meeting, held after the 2012 Pacific regional seminar,
between the Chair of the Special Committee and the Chief Minister of Anguilla,
who reiterated the urgent need for a visiting mission,
Noting the internal constitutional review process resumed by the territorial
Government in 2006, the work of the Constitutional and Electoral Reform
Commission, which prepared its report in August 2006, the holding of public and
other consultative meetings in 2007 on proposed constitutional amendments to be
presented to the administering Power, the decisions taken in 2008 and 2011 to set up
a drafting team to prepare a new constitution and present it for public consultation
in the Territory and the efforts undertaken in that regard in 2013 and 2014,
Noting also the participation of the Territory as a member in the Caribbean
Overseas Countries and Territories Council and an associate member in the
Caribbean Community, the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States and the
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean,
1.
Welcomes the preparations made for a new constitution, and urges that
constitutional discussions with the administering Power, including public
consultations, be concluded as soon as possible;
2.
Requests the administering Power to assist the Territory in its current
efforts with regard to advancing the internal constitutional review exercise, if
requested;
3.
Stresses the importance of the previously expressed desire of the
territorial Government for a visiting mission by the Special Committee, calls upon
the administering Power to facilitate such a mission, if the territorial Government so
desires, and requests the Chair of the Special Committee to take all the necessary
steps to that end;
4.
Requests the administering Power to assist the Territory by facilitating its
work concerning public consultative outreach efforts consistent with Article 73 b of
the Charter, and in that regard calls upon the relevant United Nations organizations
to provide assistance to the Territory, if requested;
5.
Calls upon the administering Power to assist the territorial Government
in strengthening its commitments in the economic domain, including budgetary
matters, with regional support as needed and appropriate;
6.
Welcomes the active participation of the Territory in the work of the
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean;
III
Bermuda
Taking note of the working paper prepared by the Secretariat on Bermuda 11
and other relevant information,
Aware of the statement made by the representative of Bermuda at the Pacific
regional seminar held in Quito from 30 May to 1 June 2012,
Conscious of the different viewpoints of the political parties on the future
status of the Territory, and noting the results of successive surveys by local media,
according to which a majority of respondents did not wish to sever ties with the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the administering Power,
and a minority was in favour of independence,
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