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 100 STAT. 3672

PUBLIC LAW 99-658—NOV. 14, 1986

Public Law 99-658 99th Congress Joint Resolution Nov. 14, 1986 [H.J. Res. 626]

To approve the "Compact of Free Association" between the United States and the Government of Palau, and for other purposes.

Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Micronesia. Marshall Islands. International Eigreements. 61 Stat. 3301. United Nations. 59 Stat. 1031.

Whereas the United States is the administering authority of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under the terms of the Trusteeship Agreement for the former Japanese Mandated Islands entered into by the United States with the Security Council of the United Nations on April 2, 1947, and approved by the United States on July 18, 1947; and Whereas the United States, in accordance with the Trusteeship Agreement, the Charter of the United Nations and the objectives of the international trusteeship system, has promoted the development of the peoples of the Trust Territory toward self-government or independence as appropriate to the particular cicumstances of the Trust Territory and its peoples and the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned; and Whereas the United States, in response to the desires of the people of Palau expressed through their freely-elected representatives and by the official pronouncements and enactments of their lawfully constituted government, and in consideration of its own obligations under the Trusteeship Agreement to promote selfdetermination, entered into political status negotiations with representatives of the people of Palau; and Whereas these negotiations resulted in the "Compact of Free Association" between the United States and Palau which, together with its related agreements, was signed by the United States and by Palau on January 10, 1986; and Whereas the Compact of Free Association received a favorable vote of a majority of the people of Palau voting in a United Nationsobserved plebiscite conducted on February 21, 1986; and Whereas the Supreme Court of Palau has ruled that the constitutional process of Palau for approval of the Compact of Free Association in accordance with section 411 of the Compact has not yet been completed; and Whereas the President of Palau has requested the United States to complete the process of United States approval of the Compact of Free Association in accordance with section 411 of the Compact through enactment of an appropriate joint resolution: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.

Post, p. 3678.

48 USC 1681 note.

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