...not apply as between the two states to the extent of the reservation. Approval and Effective Dates The Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern...Political Union with the United States of America, signed at Saipan February 15, 1975, contains extensive provisions concerning the respective approval...

...897), entered Into force July 18, 1947, see HAS 1666 ; 61 Stat. 3301 ; 12 Bevans 951. For the text of the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the...Islands In Political Union with the United States, signed Feb. 25, 1975, «w PL 94-241, approved Mar. 24, 1976, 90 Stat. 263; 48 USC 1681 (1976) note....

...Bevans 951 ; 8 TJNTS 189 ; entered into force on July 18, 1947). For further information concerning the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern...Islands in Political Union with the United States, see the 1976 Digest, Ch. 2, § 6, pp. 56-60. In accordance with section 1003(b) of the Covenant, the...

...positions taken by the legislature in favor of a close future relationship with the United States, a Covenant to establish a Commonwealth of the Northern...Islands in political union with the United States was negotiated. The Covenant was approved in a plebiscite observed by a Trusteeship Council Visiting...

...political family. Rogers CB Morton STATEMENT BY AMBASSADOR F. HAYDN WILLIAMS AT THE SIGNING CEREMONY OF THE COVENANT TO ESTABLISH A COMMONWEALTH OF THE...MARIANA ISLANDS IN POLITICAL UNION WITH THE UNITED STA TES OF AMERICA Saturday, February 15,1975 Members of the Marianas Political Status Commission and...

...the people of the northern Mariana Islands , Considering that they have today entered into a formal Covenant to establish a Commonwealth of the northern...Islands in political union with the United States; Recognizing that Sections 802 and 803 of that Covenant contain provisions relating to the use of land...

...Covenant was signed which will, if finally approved by the people of the Marianas and this Congress, establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in political union with the United States on termination of the present United Nations Trusteeship. This Covenant was unanimously approved by...

...if approved by the people of the Marianas and the US Congress, will result in the establishment of a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in political union with the United States. Prior to that assignment Mr. Wilson was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific...

...if approved by the people of the Marianas and the US Congress, will result in the establishment of a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in political union with the United States. Prior to that assignment Mr. Wilson was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific...

...SIGNED on Saturday, February 15, 1975 MT. Carmel School Auditorium Susupe, Saipan, Mariana Islands Al COVENANT TO ESTABLISH A COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS IN POLITICAL UNION UITH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA whereas, the Charter of the United Nations and the Trusteeship Agreement...