A/RES/72/102
Question of Guam
Cognizant of the importance of the administering Power continuing to
implement its programme of transferring surplus federal land to the Government
of Guam,
Noting a call for reform in the programme of the administering Power with
respect to the thorough, unconditional and expeditious transfer of land property to
the people of Guam,
Noting also the concerns expressed by a representative of the Governor of
Guam at the 2017 Caribbean regional seminar regarding a potential lawsuit by the
administering Power over the Chamorro Land Trust programme, which had been put
in place to facilitate the transfer of land to the original landowners,
Noting further the expressed desire of the territorial Government for a visiting
mission by the Special Committee,
Aware of the existing concerns of the Territory regarding the potential social,
cultural, economic and environmental impacts of the planned transfer of additional
military personnel of the administering Power to the Territory,
Aware also of the concerns expressed by the Territory on this subject before
the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) at the
seventy-second session of the General Assembly,
Recalling the statement made by the Speaker of the thirty-third Guam
legislature before the Fourth Committee at the seventieth session of the General
Assembly that the most acute threat to the legitimate exercise of the decolonization
of Guam was the incessant militarization of the island by its administering Power,
and noting the concern expressed regarding the effect of the escalating military
activities and installations of the administering Power on Guam,
Recalling also its resolution 57/140 of 11 December 2002, in which it
reiterated that military activities and arrangements by administering Powers in the
Non-Self-Governing Territories under their administration should not run counter to
the rights and interests of the peoples of the Territories concerned, especially their
right to self-determination, including independence, and called upon the
administering Powers concerned to terminate such activities and to eliminate the
remaining military bases in compliance with the relevant resolutions of the General
Assembly,
Noting the concerns raised by the Territory before the Fourth Committee at the
seventy-second session of the General Assembly about the involuntary placement of
the Territory in the midst of regional tensions,
Recalling its resolution 35/118 of 11 December 1980, and conscious that
immigration into Guam has resulted in the indigenous Chamorros becoming a
minority in their homeland,
1.
Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of Guam to self determination, in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations and with
General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV), containing the Declaration on the Granting
of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples;
2.
Also reaffirms that, in the process of the decolonization of Guam, ther e is
no alternative to the principle of self-determination, which is also a fundamental
human right, as recognized under the relevant human rights conventions;
3.
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Further reaffirms that it is ultimately for the people of Guam to
freely their future political status in accordance with the relevant
of the Charter, the Declaration and the relevant resolutions of the General
and in that connection calls upon the administering Power, in cooperation
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