Question of Guam : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Takes note of the statement by the representative of the administering Power that the Guam Commission on Self-Determination hopes to hold a local referendum before the end of 1985; urges the administering Power to continue to take all necessary measures not to involve the Territory in any offensive acts or interference against and other States; notes that a settlement was reached in 1984 between representatives of former Guamanian landowners and the administering Power under which the former will receive compensation for land taken over by the United States Government from 1944 to 1963, it being the right of the individual claimants not to participate in this settlement and continue to press their own claims; requests the Special Committee of 24 to continue the examination of this question at its next session, including the possible dispatch of a further visiting mission to Guam.

Adopted without vote, 99th plenary meeting

4 p.

Adopted at the 99th plenary meeting, 2 Dec. 1985.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 40th session, 17 September-18 December 1985, 28 April-9 May and 20 June 1986. - A/40/53. - 1986. - p. 260-261. - (GAOR, 40th sess., Suppl. no. 53).