Examples of using Chamoru in English and their translations into Russian
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Trini Torres, Chamoru Cultural Development and Research Institute A/C.4/60/3.
She called on the Committee to give the utmost priority to the inalienable right of the Chamoru people to self-determination.
Fanal Castro, Chamoru Cultural Development and Research Institute A/C.4/61/3/Add.5.
It was apparent that United States' national policies and security issues did not take into account the Chamoru people's plight and concerns.
For the Chamoru people, self-determination was not simply a word: it lived in their hearts, minds and souls.
The core issue was the self-determination of the Chamoru people, who now accounted for only 37 per cent of the island's population.
The study did not address the political relationship between the administering Power andGuam, or the impact of a colonial history on the Chamoru people.
Letter dated 15 September 2006 from Fanai Castro, Chamoru Cultural Development and Research Institute, to the Chairman of the Committee.
The Chamoru were increasingly concerned at attempts by the United States of America, the administering Power, to undercut the decolonization process, while tightening its grip on Guam.
At the invitation of the Chairman, Ms. Castro(Chamoru Cultural Development and Research Institute) took a place at the petitioners' table.
The Senator would like the Committee to convey his petition to the representatives ofthe administering Power and to urge that Power to honour the Chamoru people's right to self-determination.
Ms. Quinata(Chamoru Nation) said that the people of Guam-- the Chamoru-- continued to live under colonial rule in their homeland.
He called on the Committee to give top priority to the fulfilment of the Chamoru people's right to self-determination, and to immediately initiate the process of decolonization for Guam.
Not only was the United States increasing its military presence, it was building two new schools for its children,while denying Chamoru children a dignified, decolonized future.
The collective amnesia of the administering Power hindered the Chamoru struggle for self-determination and prevented the mobilization of broad public support in the United States.
Mr. Santos Perez(Guahan Indigenous Collective) said that the United States planned to bring in some 59,000 military personnel, dependents, business people andcontract workers; as a result, the Chamoru population of the island would be outnumbered.
The Special Committee should give top priority to ensuring the inalienable right of the Chamoru people to self-determination in view of the imminent hypermilitarization that was being planned by the administering Power.
Ms. Guerrero(Chamoru Nation) called on the Committee to disregard the administering Power's claims that the Chamoru people's right to self-determination was a domestic issue not involving the United Nations.
Thus far, however, there had been little headway made against obstacles like the United States immigration policy that sought to reduce theproportion of indigenous inhabitants, or the United States-backed privatization of Chamoru assets.
Letter dated 26 August 2005 from Trini Torres, Chamoru Cultural Development and Research Institute, addressed to the Chairman of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee Fourth Committee.
A/C.4/61/3/Add.5 Item 39-- Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries andPeoples-- Question of Guam-- Request for hearing-- Letter dated 15 September 2006 from the Chamoru Cultural Development and Research Institute, to the Chairman of the Committee A C E F R S.
Ms. Tedtaotao(Riverside Chapter of Chamorro Nation) said that the Chamoru people continued to be denied their right to their land and self-determination, and the devastation of their island made their struggle all the more difficult.
Finally, the Committee must comply with the recommendations of other United Nations agencies with regard to the holding of an expert seminar to examine the impact of the decolonization process onindigenous peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories, and prioritize collaboration with Chamoru organizations and experts.
Ms. Castro(Chamoru Cultural Development and Research Institute) observed that the traditions of the Chamoru people held the land in great reverence, saw the people as its respectful caretaker, and exalted the values of honour and family.
Mr. Tuncap(Pacific Islands Studies Programme, University of California Berkeley)called on the United Nations to recognize the inalienable right to self-determination of the Chamoru people in accordance with General Assembly resolutions 1514(XV) and 1541(XV) and with the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The Chamoru people called on the Committee to insist that the United States pay war reparations, clean up contaminated land and water, pay adequate compensation for land it was using, and fulfil its treaty obligations to provide the means for an adequate education campaign on the right to decolonization.
In a 1987 plebiscite, the people had voted for an interimlimited internal self-government status, but the resulting draft Guam Commonwealth Act had been rejected by the United States Congress because of its provisions on Chamoru self-determination and local control of immigration and other aspects of United States control.
Mr. Flores, speaking in his personal capacity as a Chamoru and a representative of the University of California, Los Angeles' Graduate Coalition of the Native Pacific, said that Guam was being prepared for the largest military expansion in the history of the United States; that expansion would permanently affect the island and its people.
A/C.4/60/3 Item 26-- Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries andPeoples-- Question of Guam-- Request for hearing-- Letter dated 26 August 2005 from the Chamoru Cultural Development and Research Institute, addressed to the Chairman of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee(Fourth Committee) A C E F R S.
Since their initial contact with the United States in 1898, the Chamoru people had been prevented from exercising their inalienable human rights by massive pacification and military occupation; militarized conditions continued to characterize the institutions defining American citizenship for many people in the Pacific and Caribbean colonies.