Examples of using Draft commonwealth act in English and their translations into Russian
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Draft commonwealth act. 34- 36 7.
In May 1986, the Commission on Self-Determination completed a draft Commonwealth Act.
A copy of the draft Commonwealth Act is available at the secretariat of the Special Committee.
Towards the end of October the Committee on Resources of the United States House of Representatives would be holding a public hearing on the draft Commonwealth Act.
A summary of the main points in the draft Commonwealth Act is contained in the 2001 working paper A/AC.109/2001/4.
In January 1993, one day before the change in the Administration of the United States, the Federal Inter-Agency Task Force submitted its report on the draft Commonwealth Act to Congress.
A summary of the main points in the draft Commonwealth Act is contained in the 2001 working paper A/AC.109/2001/4.
As stated in the previous working paper, the Governor of Guam and the Deputy Secretary of the Interior held meetings at San Francisco and Washington, D.C.,to discuss the draft Commonwealth Act.
He emphasized that the draft Commonwealth Act could be changed only with the mutual consent of the federal and local Governments.
The Chamorro people's right to self-determination had been provided for in article I, Section 102,of Guam's version of the draft Commonwealth Act which had been approved by the voters of Guam, including non-Chamorros.
A detailed review of the draft Commonwealth Act is contained in the 1994 working paper prepared by the Secretariat A/AC.109/1192, paras. 19-37.
In testimony submitted on his behalf to the House Subcommittee on Insular and International Affairs on 6 February 1992,Governor Ada called upon Congress to enact the draft Commonwealth Act as submitted, as early as possible.
Hearing on H.R. 100 The Draft Commonwealth Act, October 29, 1997, p. 11. Copy was provided to the Secretariat by Guam Commission on Self-Determination in May 1998.
Following negotiations between the FederalInter-agency Task Force and the Commission on Self-Determination of Guam, in January 1993 the Task Force submitted another report offering compromise language on the draft Commonwealth Act.
In May 1986, the Commission on Self-Determination completed a draft Commonwealth Act, which, after a public-education campaign, was submitted to an article-by-article vote on 8 August 1987.
The draft Commonwealth Act also provided that the Congress of the United States would recognize the inalienable right to self-determination of the Chamorro people, for which provision would be made in the Guam constitution.
A Federal Inter-Agency Task Force report released in August 1989 concluded that some provisions of the draft Commonwealth Act were unconstitutional, particularly those relating to the exercise of self-determination by the Chamorro people.
The Guam Draft Commonwealth Act would create an interim/transitional self-government, and actualized a decolonization process through an exercise of Chamorro self-determination.
In his state of the Territory address of 14 January 1992,Governor Ada reiterated that passage of the draft Commonwealth Act would enable the Territory to increase trade with, and accept assistance from, foreign countries and enable it to control its own marine resources.
Noting that the draft Commonwealth Act provides that the Congress of the United States would recognize the inalienable right to self-determination of the Chamorro people, for which provisions would be made in the Guam Constitution.
The members of the current Guam delegation, which represented both the executive and legislative branches of the Territory's government, both major political parties and the indigenous and non-indigenous population of the island,were united in their position, which was based on the draft Commonwealth Act endorsed by the people of Guam.
Guam had submitted its draft Commonwealth Act to the administering Power in February 1988, but Congress had then taken six years to consider the document and no constructive negotiations had been held with the administering Power.
In May 1986, the Commission on Self-Determination completed a draft Commonwealth Act, which, after a public education campaign, was submitted to an article-by-article vote on 8 August 1987 see A/AC.109/1192, paras. 19-37.
Finally, the draft Commonwealth Act would restrain the United States from utilizing the waters surrounding Guam for the dumping or storage of nuclear waste and would oblige the United States to clean up all chemical waste sites used by the military.
The Commission on Self-Determination, established in 1980, completed a draft commonwealth act in 1986, which, after a public education campaign, was submitted for an article-by-article vote on 8 August 1987 see A/AC.109/1192, paras. 19-37.
The draft Commonwealth Act attempted to create a political entity under United States sovereignty that was to be established by mutual consent of both parties and which could not be changed at will by the United States; the Commonwealth of Guam was to be recognized as separate and self-governing by the United States courts.
Recalling that in a referendum held in 1987, the people of Guam endorsed a draft 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 indigenous Chamorro people to self-determination for the Territory.
The Committee also notes that the draft Commonwealth Act provides that the Congress of the United States would recognize the inalienable right to self-determination of the Chamorro people, for which provisions would be made in the Guam Constitution.
It stated that by approving the draft Commonwealth Act the whole population of the Territory had recognized and approved the inalienable right of the Chamorro people to decide the future political status of Guam through a true act of self-determination.
Recalling that, in referendums held in Guam in 1987, a draft Commonwealth Act was endorsed by the people of Guam that, upon expeditious enactment by the Congress of the United States of America, would reaffirm the right of the people of Guam to draft their own constitution and to govern themselves.