The Carolinians of Saipan and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

Alkire, William H. (1984). "The Carolinians of Saipan and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands". Pacific Affairs. 57 (2): 270. doi:10.2307/2759128. ISSN 0030-851X.

Abstract: ON OCTOBER 1, 1982, representatives of the United States and the Federated States of Micronesia reached agreement on the details of a Compact of Free Association. This document was signed after thirteen years of negotiations aimed at determining a future political for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. The negotiations had first opened in October 1969 between a delegation from the Congress of Micronesia and a group of U.S. congressmen and representatives from the U.S. Departments of Interior, State, and Defence. In 1970, soon after these initial meetings, the U.S. administration offered status to the whole of the Trust Territory. This arrangement would have created a relationship between the U.S. and Micronesia similar to that which existed between the U.S. and Puerto Rico. However, the Congress of Micronesia rejected the proposal, in large part because it contained no provisions for opting out should the parties find the arrangement constricting or discriminatory. The Micronesians countered with a suggestion of free association, a looser alliance that would permit either party to terminate the arrangement with adequate notice. These two initial positions defined the parameters of negotiation for the next twelve years. The offer of commonwealth and its rejection by the Congress of Micronesia had repercussions within Micronesia that intensified latent differences of opinion among leaders of the six districts of the Trust Territory (at that time, the Marianas, the Marshalls, Palau, Yap, Truk,

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