Micronesia: Final Stage of Negotiations with the Northern Marianas

Kissinger, Henry A. (1975-02-06). Micronesia: Final Stage of Negotiations with the Northern Marianas. Secretary of Defense.

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Abstract: At Tab B is a memorandum to you from the Chairman of the Under Secretaries C ommittee forwarding a memorandum from Ambassador F. Haydn Williams, your Personal Representative for Micronesian Status Negotiations. Ambassador Williams reports that he has comp the negotiation of a new U. S. relationship with the Northern Mariana. District of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI). He requests authority to sign a covenant embodying this relationship ad referendum with Marianas representatives this week, and asks for additional authority from you on two points in order to sign the covenant. Since 1971, Ambassador Williams has been negotiating a new U. S. relationship with the Trust Territory. We have important contingenc military basing interests in the TTPI, particularly in the Northern Marianas District. In 1972, the Northern Marianas District decided that it wanted a separate and closer relationship with the U. S. than that desired by the other five districts of the TTPI....