the establishment of the United Nations, approximately 100 colonial and Trust Territories had attained freedom, independence and sovereignty, including a number of colonial Territories of the Pacific which were close to Micronesia, in the size of their population as well as territory. However, 25 years after its adoption, the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples remained unimplemented for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. 145. The Soviet representative said that the colonial Powers constantly tried to camouflage neo-colonialism under labels such as "commonwealth" or "free association", as exemplified by the policy and practice of the United States, the Administering Authority for the strategic Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Throughout the 40 years of its administration, the United States had designed all of its activities in the Territory to deprive the Micronesian people of their right to genuine freedom, unity and independence. It had obstinately pursued one qoal, namely to perpetuate its domination of the Mariana, Caroline and Marshall Islands in order to consolidate its stratetic position in the Western Pacific basin and gain ready access to the Asian continent. 146. The longstanding plans of the United States to annex Micronesia and turn the Trust Territory into a military and strategic bridgehead in the western Pacific were amply documented. One had only to refer to the documents of the First Cairo Conference of the Western Allies in 1943, the San Francisco Conference, the statement by President Harry S. Truman at the first session of the United Nations General Assembly held in London in 1946 and the memorandum by Mr. Henry Lewis Stimson, United States Secretary of war, to the Secretary of State. The leitmotiv of all those documents and statements was the same: the Micronesian Islands "must belonq to the United States; the United States must have 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the political and colonial history of Micronesia, specifically the United States' administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and its intentions to maintain control over the region. The text highlights the lack of implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and the United States' efforts to perpetuate its domination over the region.

**Category**
International relations, Humanitarian aid and relief