MICRONESIAN STATUS NEGOTIATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP97M00248R000400770001-2
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 7, 1978
• Content Type: MEMO

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Presidential Directive/NSC-34
. April 7, 1978
The Vice President
The Secretary of State
The Secretary of Defense
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ALSO: The Attorney General
The Secretary of Interior
The Secretary of Commerce
The Secretary of Transportation.
The United States Representative to the
United Nations
The Director, Office of Management and Budget
The Director of Central Intelligence
The Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Office of Micronesian Status Negotiations
SUBJECT: Micronesian Status Negotiations
In pursuit of the objectives set forth in PD/NSC-11 (May 5, 1977), the
President has authorized the U.S. negotiator to seek the agreement of
the Micronesian delegations to free association arrangements embodying
these principles:
1. An agreement of free association will be concluded on a
government-to-government basis and executed prior to termination of
the United Nations trusteeship.
2. The agreement of free association will be put to a U.N.
observed plebiscite in which the peoples of Micronesia shall freely
exercise their right of self determination.
3. The peoples of Micronesia will enjoy full internal self-
government.
4. Constitutional arrangements for the governance of Micronesia
shall be in accord with the political status of free association as set
forth in these principles.
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5. The United States will have full authority and responsibility
for security and defense matters in or relating, to Micronesia, including
the establishment of necessary military facilities and the exercise of
appropriate operating rights. The peoples of Micronesia will refrain
from actions which the U.S. determines to be incompatible with its
authority and responsibility for security and defense matters in or
relating to Micronesia. This authority and responsibility will be
assured for 15 years, and thereafter as mutually agreed. Specific
land arrangements will remain in effect according to their terms which
shall be negotiated prior to the end of the Trusteeship Agreement.
6. Consistent with the status of free association, the peoples of
Micronesia will have authority and responsibility for their foreign
affairs including marine resources. They will consult with the United
States in the exercise of this authority and will refrain from actions
which the United States determines to be incompatible with its authority
and responsibility for security and defense matters in or relating to
Micronesia. The United States may agree to act on behalf of,the peoples
of Micronesia in the area of foreign affairs as may be mutually agreed
from time to time.
7. The agreement will permit unilateral termination of the free
association political status by the processes through which it was
entered and set forth in the agreement and subject to the continuation
of the United States defense authority and responsibility as set forth
in Principle 5.
8. Should the United States terminate the free association rela-
tionship, its economic assistance to Micronesia shall continue at the
levels and for the term initially agreed. If the agreement is otherwise
terminated, the United States shall no longer be obligated to provide
the amounts of economic assistance for the remainder of the term
initially agreed. United States economic assistance shall be subject
to the appropriation authority of its Congress.
Aside from the modifications contained in these principles, the negotiating
guidelines contained in PD/NSC-11 remain in force.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
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