From Trusteeship To...? Micronesia and Its Future
Author(s) Unknown (1982). From Trusteeship To...? Micronesia and Its Future. Micronesia Support Committee and Pacific Concerns Resource Center.
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Abstract: A joint publication of the Micronesia Support Committee and PAcific Concerns Resource Center. After 13 years of negotiations between the United States and Micronesia, a Compact of Free Association is on the verge of completion.The Trust Territory of the Pac1f1c Islands now composed of four separate governments: (1) The Mariana Islands, which in 1975 approved a commonwealth agreement with the U S . (2) The Republic of the Marshall Islands, the first Micronesian government to sign the Compact of Free Association. aiming for an October 1. 1982 termination of the U.N. Trusteeship, (3) The Federated States of Micronesia, which has threatened boycotts of the negotiations, demanding that the U S complete essential capital improvements before termination of the Trusteeship. (4) The Republic of Palau. coming out of a struggle to implement a sovereign constitution. appears ready to sign the Compact and terminate the Trusteeship Many Micronesians were self-sufficient a generation or more ago. Now over 50% of the work force is government employed. As people in Palau. the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands face a referendum on the Compact, what choices are available to them? How have most Micronesians adapted to conditions under the United States as Administering Authority following the devastation of World War II? How have U.S. economic policies prepared people for the future? How has the U S responded to the suggestions and criticism of the United Nations since the beginning of the Trusteeship?
