113. It will be recalled that negotiations concerning the future political status of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands began in 1969. In 1975, the people of the Northern Mariana Islands approved a Covenant to Establis h a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America. 10/ 114. Negotiations with regard to the rest of the Trust Territory, based on the concept of free association, continued overa period of years. The Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands approved the Compacts of Free I ... T/L.1274 English Page 21 Association in plebiscites held in 1983, and the Congress of the United States approved them at the end of 1985 with sorne amendments. The President of the United States signed the Compacts as amended on 14 January 1986. 115. Background information regarding the Compact of Free Association for Palau is contained in previous reports of the Trusteeship Council to the Security Council and of United Nations visiting missions. ll/ (See also T/L.1269, paras. 114 to 131.) 116. At its fifty-third session, on 28 May 1986, the Trusteeship Council adopted, by 3 votes to 1, resolution 2183 (LIII), by which it noted that the peoples of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau had freely exercised their right to self-determination in plebiscites observed by the visiting missions of the Trusteeship Council and had chosen free association with the United States in the case of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau, and Commonwealth status in the case of the Northern Mariana Islands. 117. The Council requested the Government of the United States, in consultation with the four Micronesian Governments, to agree on a date not later than 30 September 1986 for the full entry into force of the Compact of Free Association 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the political status of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, specifically the negotiations and agreements related to the future status of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau. It seems that the main focus is on the political relationships between these entities and the United States, rather than on economic or social development.

**Category**
International relations, Politics