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PNRP wished to stress that any measure aimed at settling the issue of Puerto Rico's political status without any previous transfer of sovereign power to the Puerto Rican people would be null and void.

Mr. Bhatia (Executive Director, Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration), speaking on behalf of the Governor of Puerto Rico, said that he wished to present his Government's official position regarding the self determination of Puerto Rico.

Ms. Luz Rexach (National Advancement for Puerto Rican Culture, Inc.) said that the situation in Puerto Rico was very sad.

Look at what you Americans are doing in Puerto Rico.

The problem of the status Puerto Rico should be solved by the United Nations in line with current international law standards and the fundamental rights of the Puerto Rican people.

Such a broad based assembly would enable the Puerto Rican people to unanimously request the United States to grant sovereignty to Puerto Rico.

The protest in front of the capitol of Puerto Rico.

Noting the debate in Puerto Rico on the search for a procedure that would make it possible to launch the process of decolonization of Puerto Rico,

Make believe democracy and elections were part of a diversionary tactic that perpetuated Puerto Rico's colonial status, served the interests of the colonial power and destroyed Puerto Rican society.

Notes the debate in Puerto Rico on the implementation of a mechanism that would ensure the full participation of representatives of all viewpoints prevailing in Puerto Rico, based on the principle that any initiative for the solution of the political status of Puerto Rico should originate from the people of Puerto Rico

10 Puerto Rico Herald, 9 August 2004.

Accordingly, Puerto Rico's problem was not its alleged colonial status but discriminatory practices that reduced Puerto Ricans to second rate citizens .

And what we're here to do is not to talk about Puerto Rico or the past.

I have said it before, Puerto Rico's petroleum is its people.

Puerto Rico was no more a colony than Alaska and Hawaii.

Puerto Rico would continue to fight for national liberation.

Clearly, Puerto Rico's ruling class had no intention to change the colonial character of the relationship with the United States, because that situation allowed them to realize profits at the expense of the Puerto Rican people.

Such an assembly, however, was not a decolonization mechanism, would only serve to perpetuate colonialism in Puerto Rico and was therefore unacceptable to PNRP.

Accordingly, the United States must withdraw all of its armed forces from Puerto Rican territory, release all political prisoners and assist in Puerto Rico's political, economic and social development.

Such activities violated the moral, religious, cultural and democratic values of the people of Puerto Rico.

Special Committee decision of 14 June 2004 concerning Puerto Rico

Another source of tension facing the colonial regime was the United States Government's intention to introduce in Puerto Rico capital punishment, prohibited under the Puerto Rican Constitution.

FSPR would steadfastly uphold the rights of the Puerto Rican people under General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) and called for the immediate withdrawal of the entire military, legal and political apparatus of the United States from Puerto Rico.

That was not the first time it had flouted the decolonization principles On taking Puerto Rico from Spain in 1898, the United States had promised to proclaim Puerto Rico's independence within a year.

Mr. Requeijo Gual (Cuba) expressed his appreciation to the petitioners, who had come from Puerto Rico, New York and elsewhere in the United States, and to Committee members for their solidarity with the self determination of Puerto Rico.

The status of Commonwealth associated with the United States , entitling Puerto Ricans to elect their own governor and ensuring them some autonomy, had set in motion Puerto Rico's further political development.

The Special Committee had considered the question of Puerto Rico under General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) of 1972, even though Puerto Rico was not on the list of Non Self Governing States.

He also endorsed self determination of Puerto Rico, and supported the convening of an assembly on its status, where any solution to the political status of that island would be decided directly by the people of Puerto Rico.

Special Committee decision of 14 June 2004 concerning Puerto Rico6

Puerto Rico could not remain patient for one more century.

Those two elements would end discrimination against the Puerto Rican population.

A century later, Puerto Rico was still a United States colony.

Special Committee decision of 14 June 2004 concerning Puerto Rico (continued)

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In fact, compared to those two states taken together, Puerto Rico had more United States citizens that were actual local residents and provided more personnel to the United States Armed Forces, National Guard and police.

Noting the consensus existing among the people and the Government of Puerto Rico on the necessity of ensuring the decontamination, and return to the people of Puerto Rico of all the territory previously used for military exercises and installations, and of using them for the social and economic development of Puerto Rico,

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Certain circles in Puerto Rico were currently talking about convening a constituent assembly.