Tapaau Dr. Daniel Aga, Director of the ASG Office on Political Status, Constitutional Review and Federal Relations, heads to Managua, Nicaragua to represent American Samoa at the Pacific Regional Seminar of the United Nations Committee on Decolonization.
The meeting is from May 31st to June 2.
The theme of the Seminar is: “Implementation of the Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism: commitments and actions for decolonization in the Non-Self-Governing Territories”.
American Samoa and Guam are the US territories on the list of non self governing states.
Special Committee Chair Rafael Carreño (Venezuela) recalled that no Asia-Pacific member of the Committee had offered to host the seminar by the March 14, deadline.
So the committee accepted the offer from Nicaragua to host the Pacific Regional Seminar in Managua.
Managua was also the venue for the Committee’s seminar this time last year, at which Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo Ale presented Governor Lolo Moliga’s statement suggesting that American Samoa remain on the Committee’s list of non-self governing states until such time that the territory decides what it’s political status should be.
This was a departure from the statements of previous governors, that American Samoa should not be on that list because it is not a colony captured by the spoils of war, rather the leaders of Tutuila and Manu’a willingly ceded their islands to the United States for protection.
