A representative of the Cayman Islands Chamber Non Governmental Organizations Constitutional Working Group observed that he spoke on behalf of non governmental organizations in the Cayman Islands involved in Constitutional Review.

Denmark declared territorial exclusion in respect of the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

Denmark declared territorial exclusion in respect of the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

Rafael Esparza Machín, University of Las Palmas, Canary Islands (A C.4 60 5 Add.16)

Argentina claimed the South Sandwich Islands in 1938, and challenged British sovereignty in the Islands on several occasions.

Amchitka ( ) is a volcanic, tectonically unstable island in the Rat Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in southwest Alaska.

María Dolores Travieso Darias, Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos de Canarias (A C.4 60 5 Add.21)

It comprises one large island, known as Grande Terre, and smaller islands known as the Loyalty Islands (Ouvéa, Maré, Lifou and Tiga), the Bélap Archipelago, the Isle of Pines and Huon Islands.

The programme is supervised by Professor Kaare Aksnes and utilizes observations from the Nordic Optical Telescope at La Palma in the Canary Islands (Spain).

Prior sovereignty is unclear there were fishermen from Japan in Takeshima Dokdo, and some awareness of the Senkaku Diaoyu in imperial China.

Ms. Maldonado (Department of Political Affairs), said that, since issuance of the report, the United Kingdom had transmitted information for the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) for the year 2004.

The First Battle of Guam was an engagement during the Pacific War in World War II, and took place on 8 December 1941 on Guam in the Mariana Islands between the Empire of Japan and the United States.

On 10 December 2004, the General Assembly adopted resolutions 59 134 A and B without a vote section IV of resolution 59 134 B concerns the British Virgin Islands.

Regarding the working paper on the Cayman Islands, the speaker noted that it contained extremely important information, but that there were some errors that would be pointed out to the Committee later.

For example, China showed little interest in the Senkaku Diaoyu Islands prior to 1968 the year a geographical study pointed to vast oil reserves beneath the seabed.

Even though the line covers the waters northeast of the Indonesian owned Natuna Islands, the Chinese government has given Indonesia categorical assurances that China does not claim the Natuna Islands or their Exclusive Economic Zone.

Shinzo Abe of the Liberal Democratic Party, who is likely to become Japan s next prime minister, has vowed to take a tougher line on Senkaku and other disputes with China.

On 3 January 1833, British forces expelled the Argentine inhabitants and authorities established in the Malvinas Islands and began their illegal occupation, creating a special colonial situation unlike any other.

Likewise, a report in 1870 by Japan s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, A Confidential Inquiry into the Particulars of Korea s Foreign Relations, shows that the ministry recognized Dokdo as Korean territory.

This partly explains the current tensions between China and Japan over their conflicting territorial claims to islands in the East China Sea, which occupy an area of only seven square kilometers, but are surrounded by rich hydrocarbon reserves.

Regrettably the Caribbean had again suffered badly from hurricanes and, in the context of the Territories, he mentioned the devastation caused by hurricane Ivan to the Cayman Islands, despite good local contingency planning.

Dutch and English interests used this new information, leading to their commercial expansion, including the foundation of the English East India Company in 1600, and the Dutch East India Company in 1602.

He reiterated his Government's support for the legitimate rights of Argentina in the sovereignty dispute involving the Malvinas Islands, and strongly rejected the inclusion of the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands in the Constitutional Treaty of the European Union signed on 29 December 2004.

At the same meeting, the representative of the Islamic republic of Iran proposed an oral amendment by which a new operative paragraph following current operative paragraph 4 would be inserted in section XI on the United States Virgin Islands and the following paragraphs would be renumbered accordingly.

The most vivid demonstration of the country's commitment to tolerance and respect for diversity was the International Cultural Weekend, held in October each year, in which representatives from over 50 nationalities living in the Bahamas displayed their art, culture, food and traditions.

The Islamic Republic of Iran categorically rejects the contents of the annex of the aforementioned letter regarding the claims of the United Arab Emirates over the Iranian islands of Abu Musa, the Greater Tunb and the Lesser Tunb and reiterates that these islands are and will remain integral and eternal parts of Iranian territory.

China might agree not to undermine America as it withdraws only if the US agrees to rethink its arms sales to Taiwan, or to pull back from its commitment to support Japan s claims to the Diaoyu Senkaku islands, the ownership of which China disputes.

China has also launched a stealth war in the East China Sea to assert territorial claims over the resource rich Senkaku Islands (called the Diaoyu Islands in China), which Japan has controlled since 1895 (aside from a period of administration by the United States from 1945 to1972).