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Part V





The President





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Proclamation 6726--Placing Into Full Force and Effect the Compact of 
Free Association With the Republic of Palau

Proclamation 6727--Energy Awareness Month, 1994


                        Presidential Documents 


Federal Register
Vol. 59, No. 188
Thursday, September 29, 1994

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Title 3--
The President
                Proclamation 6726 of September 27, 1994

 

Placing into Full Force and Effect the Compact of 
                Free Association With the Republic of Palau

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Since July 18, 1947, the United States has administered 
                the United Nations Trust Territory of the Pacific 
                Islands (``Trust Territory''), which has included the 
                Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of 
                Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau.

                On November 3, 1986, a Covenant between the United 
                States and the Northern Mariana Islands came into 
                force. This Covenant established the Commonwealth of 
                the Northern Mariana Islands as a self-governing 
                Commonwealth in political union with and under the 
                sovereignty of the United States.

                On October 21, 1986, in the case of the Republic of the 
                Marshall Islands, and on November 3, 1986, in the case 
                of the Federated States of Micronesia, Compacts of Free 
                Association with the United States became effective. 
                Under the Compacts, the Federated States of Micronesia 
                and the Republic of the Marshall Islands became self-
                governing sovereign states, in free association with 
                the United States. Following the changes in political 
                status of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Marshall 
                Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia, the 
                Trusteeship Agreement ceased to be applicable to those 
                entities and only Palau remained as the Trust Territory 
                of the Pacific Islands.

                On January 10, 1986, the Government of the United 
                States and the Government of Palau concluded a Compact 
                of Free Association similar to those that the United 
                States entered into with the Republic of the Marshall 
                Islands and with the Federated States of Micronesia. As 
                in those instances, it was specified that the Compact 
                with Palau would come into effect upon (1) mutual 
                agreement between the Government of the United States, 
                acting in fulfillment of its responsibilities as 
                Administering Authority of the Trust Territory of the 
                Pacific Islands, and the Government of Palau; (2) the 
                approval of the Compact by the two Governments, in 
                accordance with their constitutional processes; and (3) 
                the approval of the Compact by plebiscite in Palau.

                In Palau the Compact has been approved by the 
                Government in accordance with its constitutional 
                processes and by a United Nations-observed plebiscite 
                on November 9, 1993, a sovereign act of self-
                determination. In the United States the Compact was 
                approved by Public Law 99-658 of November 14, 1986, and 
                Public Law 101-219 of December 12, 1989.

                On May 25, 1994, the Trusteeship Council of the United 
                Nations concluded that the Government of the United 
                States had satisfactorily discharged its obligations as 
                the Administering Authority under the terms of the 
                Trusteeship Agreement and that the people of Palau had 
                freely exercised their right to self-determination and 
                considered that it was appropriate for the Trusteeship 
                Agreement to be terminated. The Council asked the 
                United States to consult with the Government of Palau 
                and to agree on a date, on or about October 1, 1994, 
                for entry into force of their new status agreement.

                On July 15, 1994, the Government of the United States 
                and the Government of the Republic of Palau agreed, 
                pursuant to section 411 of the Compact of Free 
                Association, that as between the United States and the 
                Republic of Palau, the effective date of the Compact 
                shall be October 1, 1994.

                As of this day, September 27, 1994, the United States 
                has fulfilled its obligations under the Trusteeship 
                Agreement with respect to the Republic of Palau. On 
                October 1, 1994, the Compact will enter into force 
                between the United States and the Republic of Palau, 
                and Palau will thereafter be self-governing and no 
                longer subject to the Trusteeship. In taking these 
                actions, the United States is implementing the freely 
                expressed wishes of the people of Palau.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
                United States of America, by the authority vested in me 
                by the Constitution and laws of the United States, 
                including sections 101 and 102 of the Joint Resolution 
                to approve the ``Compact of Free Association'' between 
                the United States and the Government of Palau, and for 
                other purposes, approved on November 14, 1986 (Public 
                Law 99-658), and section 101 of the Joint Resolution to 
                authorize entry into force of the Compact of Free 
                Association between the United States and the 
                Government of Palau, and for other purposes, approved 
                on December 12, 1989 (Public Law 101-219), and pursuant 
                to section 1002 of the Covenant to Establish a 
                Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in 
                Political Union with the United States of America, and 
                consistent with sections 101 and 102 of the Joint 
                Resolution to approve the ``Compact of Free 
                Association'' and for other purposes, approved on 
                January 14, 1986 (Public Law 99-239), do hereby find, 
                declare, and proclaim as follows:

                Section 1. I determine that the Trusteeship Agreement 
                for the Pacific Islands will be no longer in effect 
                with respect to the Republic of Palau as of October 1, 
                1994, at one minute past one o'clock p.m. local time in 
                Palau. This constitutes the determination referred to 
                in section 1002 of the Covenant with the Northern 
                Mariana Islands (Public Law 94-241).

                Sec. 2. The Compact of Free Association with the 
                Republic of Palau will be in full force and effect as 
                of October 1, 1994, at one minute past one o'clock p.m. 
                local time in Palau.

                Sec. 3. I am gratified that the people of the Republic 
                of Palau, after 47 years of Trusteeship, have freely 
                chosen to establish a relationship of Free Association 
                with the United States.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                twenty-seventh day of September, in the year of our 
                Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-four, and of the 
                Independence of the United States of America the two 
                hundred and nineteenth.

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