[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 188 (Thursday, September 29, 1994)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 49777-49778]
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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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