Post by Logan on Jun 27, 2016 0:14:05 GMT -6
United Nations Again Calls on the US to Expedite a Self-Determination Process for Puerto Rico
At a meeting this week of the United Nations Committee on Decolonization, Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla requested support from the United Nations for self-determination for the people of Puerto Rico. Telesure quoted the governor as asking the committee to “put the case of Puerto Rico to the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization and to the Human Rights Council.”
Garcia Padilla referred to the decision in 1953 to remove Puerto Rico from the list of non-self-governing areas which are under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Decolonization. The removal was requested by the United States, after the government of Puerto Rico asked the federal government to do so, following Congress’s acceptance of the Constitution of Puerto Rico.
The United States clearly stated at the time that the relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico was not changed by the constitution. Writing and ratifying a constitution is a common step by territories prior to statehood, and has never changed a territory into a state or in any other way altered the relationship between the territory and the United States. Utah, for example, drafted a constitution in 1849 and achieved statehood in 1896. Between 1849 and 1896, Utah continued to be a territory of the United States.
The governor argued that the people of Puerto Rico thought that they gained sovereignty from their constitution, and that the recent confirmation by the Supreme Court that this was not true, constituted a change in the position of the United States.
Read more: www.puertoricoreport.com/united-nations-calls-us-expedite-self-determination-process-puerto-rico/
At a meeting this week of the United Nations Committee on Decolonization, Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla requested support from the United Nations for self-determination for the people of Puerto Rico. Telesure quoted the governor as asking the committee to “put the case of Puerto Rico to the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization and to the Human Rights Council.”
Garcia Padilla referred to the decision in 1953 to remove Puerto Rico from the list of non-self-governing areas which are under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Decolonization. The removal was requested by the United States, after the government of Puerto Rico asked the federal government to do so, following Congress’s acceptance of the Constitution of Puerto Rico.
The United States clearly stated at the time that the relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico was not changed by the constitution. Writing and ratifying a constitution is a common step by territories prior to statehood, and has never changed a territory into a state or in any other way altered the relationship between the territory and the United States. Utah, for example, drafted a constitution in 1849 and achieved statehood in 1896. Between 1849 and 1896, Utah continued to be a territory of the United States.
The governor argued that the people of Puerto Rico thought that they gained sovereignty from their constitution, and that the recent confirmation by the Supreme Court that this was not true, constituted a change in the position of the United States.
Read more: www.puertoricoreport.com/united-nations-calls-us-expedite-self-determination-process-puerto-rico/