A/RES/48/51
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4.
Requests the administering Power to take all necessary measures to
respond to the concerns of the territorial Government with regard to the
immigration issue;
5.
Reiterates its request to the administering Power to continue to
recognize and respect the cultural and ethnic identity of the Chamorro people,
the indigenous inhabitants of Guam;
6.
Urges the administering Power to continue to support appropriate
measures by the territorial Government aimed at promoting growth in commercial
fishing and agriculture;
7.
Notes that a period of fourteen years has elapsed since a United
Nations mission visited the Territory and again calls upon the administering
Power to facilitate the dispatch of such a mission.
VII. - Montserrat
The General Assembly,
Referring to resolution A above,
Having heard the statement of the representative of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as the administering Power, 6/
Aware of the decision of the administering Power to implement a policy
change aimed at establishing better dialogue, coordination and cooperation
between itself and its Caribbean dependent Territories,
Noting the position of the territorial Government that while
independence is both desirable and inevitable, it should be preceded by
economic and financial viability sufficient to sustain Montserrat as an
independent State,
Expressing concern at the high incidence of drug trafficking and money
laundering in the Territory,
Taking into account the membership of Montserrat in regional and
international bodies and the outstanding request of the Territory for
readmission to associate membership in the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization,
Aware of the Government’s policy to continue to train and develop local
human resources,
Recalling that the last United Nations visiting mission to the Territory
took place in 1982,
1.
Calls upon the administering Power to consider all suggestions
made by the Territories concerned within the framework of its review of policy
and management of the Caribbean dependent Territories, as well as in the
context of any future policy changes affecting them;
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