A/RES/48/51 Page 11 the administering Power, the administering Power has approved of the closure of aviation activities at the Naval Air Station Agana, Aware that large tracts of land in the Territory continue to be reserved for the use of the Department of Defense of the administering Power, Cognizant that the administering Power has undertaken a programme of transferring surplus federal land to the Government of Guam, Cognizant also of the potential for diversifying and developing the economy of Guam through commercial fishing and agriculture, Conscious that immigration into the Territory has resulted in the indigenous Chamorros becoming a minority in their homeland and that, in 1990, 50 per cent of the residents were not born in the Territory, Mindful that discussions between the Guam Commission on SelfDetermination and the executive branch of the administering Power on the draft Guam Commonwealth Act concluded at the end of the previous administration of the administering Power, and that the Guam Commission on Self-Determination has requested the new Administration to appoint a special representative of the President to lead the administering Power’s review of the Guam Commonwealth Act, Recalling that in referendums held in Guam in 1987 the people of Guam endorsed a draft Commonwealth Act that, upon expeditious enactment by the Congress of the United States of America, would reaffirm the right of the people of Guam to draft their own constitution and to govern themselves, Recalling also the dispatch in 1979 of a United Nations visiting mission to the Territory, 1. Calls upon the administering Power to continue to ensure that the presence of military bases and installations in the Territory does not constitute an obstacle to the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples nor hinder the population of the Territory from exercising its right to self-determination, including independence, in conformity with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations; 2. Also calls upon the administering Power, in cooperation with the territorial Government, to continue to expedite the transfer of land to the people of the Territory and to take the necessary steps to safeguard their property rights; 3. Notes that discussions held since 1988 between the Government of the United States of America and the Guam Commission on Self-Determination have resulted in qualified agreements on the provisions of the Guam Commonwealth Act, including agreements to disagree on several substantive portions of the Guam proposal, and that the new Administration of the administering Power has been requested by Guam to conduct expeditiously its review of the Guam Commonwealth Act in concert with the Guam Commission on Self-Determination; /...