Примеры использования Guam commonwealth на Английском языке и их переводы на Русский язык
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The Guam Commonwealth Act was a unilateral act by the people of Guam. .
Noting the appointment on 3 November 1993 by the administering Power of a Special Representative for Guam Commonwealth Issues.
The Guam Commonwealth Act had last been considered by the United States Congress in October 1998.
Noting the appointment on 3 November 1993 by the administering Power of a Special Representative for Guam Commonwealth Issues.
It was interesting to hear that the Guam Commonwealth Act represented the real views of the Chamorro people.
Guam's political leaders agreed to delay thisprocess in 1997 and 1998 while congressional consideration of the draft Guam Commonwealth Act was under way.
Following the ultimate implementation of the Guam Commonwealth Act, Guam would still be a Non-Self-Governing Territory.
The Guam Commonwealth bill, which contains the details of the proposed Commonwealth relationship, has been introduced in every Congress since 1988 by the delegate from Guam. .
The interim political relationship with the United States had been reflected in the Guam Commonwealth Act, the adoption of which was not an exercise in self-determination.
On 3 November 1993, the United States Secretary of the Interior, with the concurrence of the President of the United States, designated Mr. Michael Heyman as Special Representative for Guam commonwealth issues.
The proposal was called the Guam Commonwealth Act, and was the subject of seemingly endless discussions with the United States Government.
The members of the Guam Commission on Self-Determination, established by Guam law, had discussed the Guam Commonwealth with the Bush and Clinton Administrations.
The Guam Commonwealth Act, which defined an interim political relationship between the Territory and the United States, dated back to 1987, and the United States had taken no action on it yet.
Calls upon the administering Power to continue to conduct expeditiously its negotiations with the territorial Government on the draft Guam Commonwealth Act and on the future status of the Territory;
A draft Guam Commonwealth Act proposed an interim political status with limited internal self-government while recognizing that the right to self-determination in Guam belonged to the indigenous Chamorro people.
Calls upon the administering Power andthe territorial Government to expedite the early conclusion of the negotiations on the draft Guam Commonwealth Act and on the future status of the Territory;
Recalling the statement by the Special Representative of the United States of America for Guam Commonwealth Issues on 12 December 1993 that the Administration hoped to have comments on the Commonwealth Bill before Congress by the end of 1994.
Two representatives referred in particular to the situation in Guam andcalled upon the Special Committee to continue its consideration of the question of Guam until full implementation of the Draft Guam Commonwealth Act as endorsed by the people of Guam in 1987.
Testimony of Interior Secretary John Garamendi,the Administration's Special Representative for the Guam Commonwealth, 29 October 1997 copy provided to the Secretariat by Guam Commission on Self-Determination on 1 May 1998.
The Guam Commonwealth Act creates a mechanism whereby the United States Congress would approve of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Guam, including a provision which recognizes the right of the Chamorro people to select an ultimate political status.
Expresses the hope that the appointment by the administering Power of a Special Representative for Guam Commonwealth Issues would facilitate the ongoing discussions on the political status of Guam; .
The law also noted that,by approving the draft Guam Commonwealth Act as an interim political status, the entire population of Guam had recognized and supported the inalienable right of the colonized Chamorro people to decide the future political status of Guam through a true act of self-determination.
Expresses the hope that the appointment by the administering Power of a Special Representative for Guam Commonwealth Issues will facilitate the ongoing discussions on the political status of Guam; .
The official position of the Clinton Administration, however, had fallen far short of what Guam was seeking, and did not address the question of a fundamental transformation in the relationship.10(The position of the Clinton Administration with regard to the draft Commonwealth Act is presented in document A/AC.109/2000/6, para. 101.) A report on the congressional hearing was never published andno discussions on the draft Guam Commonwealth Act have been held since that time.
On 29 October 1997, the House Committee on Resources of the United States Congress held hearings on the Guam Commonwealth bill(H.R.100) introduced in January 1997 by Guam's delegate to the United States Congress, Mr. Robert Underwood.
Calls upon the administering Power to facilitate the exercise of self-determination by the Chamorro people of Guam for the Territory,as endorsed by the people of Guam in the draft Guam Commonwealth Act, and to keep the Secretary-General informed of the progress to that end;
Recalling that, in a referendum held in 1987, the people of Guam endorsed a draft Guam Commonwealth Act that would establish a new framework for relations between the Territory and the administering Power, providing internal self-government for Guam and recognition of the right of the people of Guam to self-determination for the Territory.
The Committee should encourage the administering Power to fund an educational campaign on the topic of self-determination and the available status options. The Committee should also encourage another visiting mission to Guam to obtain first-hand information,urge the United States to accept the Guam Commonwealth Act, return land to the Government of Guam and take notice of Guam Legislative Resolution No. 466 commending the work of the United Nations Special Committee on decolonization.
Aware of the continued negotiations between the administering Power andthe territorial Government on the draft Guam Commonwealth Act and on the future status of the Territory, with particular emphasis on the questions of the evolution of the relationship between the United States of America and Guam, self-determination of the Chamorro people and participation of Guam in international organizations.
In his statement before the House Committee on Resources on 29 October 1997,the Administration's Special Representative for the Guam Commonwealth, Interior Deputy Secretary John Garamendi, summarized the position of the administering Power in the following way.