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PUBLIC LAW 108–188—DEC. 17, 2003

Public Law 108–188 108th Congress Joint Resolution Dec. 17, 2003 [H.J. Res. 63]

48 USC 1921 note.

Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003.

VerDate 11-MAY-2000

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To approve the Compact of Free Association, as amended, between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Compact of Free Association, as amended, between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and to appropriate funds to carry out the amended Compacts.

Whereas the United States (in accordance with the Trusteeship Agreement for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the United Nations Charter, and the objectives of the international trusteeship system of the United Nations) fulfilled its obligations to promote the development of the people of the Trust Territory toward self-government or independence as appropriate to the particular circumstances of the Trust Territory and its peoples and the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned; Whereas the United States, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands entered into the Compact of Free Association set forth in title II of Public Law 99– 239, January 14, 1986, 99 Stat. 1770, to create and maintain a close and mutually beneficial relationship; Whereas the United States, in accordance with section 231 of the Compact of Free Association entered into negotiations with the Governments of the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands to provide continued United States assistance and to reaffirm its commitment to this close and beneficial relationship; and Whereas these negotiations, in accordance with section 431 of the Compact, resulted in the ‘‘Compact of Free Association, as amended between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Federated States of Micronesia’’, and the ‘‘Compact of Free Association, as amended between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands’’, which, together with their related agreements, were signed by the Government of the United States and the Governments of the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands on May 14, and April 30, 2003, respectively: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

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