Spain should establish three naval stations in the Carolinas, Marianas and Palaos, following article 3. He suggested Saipan, Yap and Koror. In October, Pastor announced that there were still four islands under Spanish sovereignty, as they were forgotten in the 1899 treaty. In 1950, Pastor published the book . On 12 January 1949, the question was dealt with in the Council of Ministers, but However, a report of 4 January 1949 from the legal advice of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs "estimated that any hypothetical right of Spain over those islands would have been destroyed by the later trust regimes, that were those established after World War I with the transfer of those territories to Japan and, after World War II, with their attribution to the United States". In 2014, the Spanish government closed any speculation on the issue of Spanish possessions in the Pacific with an answer in the Congress to the deputy Jon Iñarritu. According to its interpretation, Spain yielded in 1899 every remaining possession in the Pacific. It added that "those islands were traditionally linked to the Carolinas and it has to be understood that, if the latter were yielded, the former were yielded too" and "the Spanish attitude between 1899 and 1948 shows that the intent of Spain by signing the treaty with Germany was to transfer to it all its possessions in the Pacific." It would be inconsistent "that Spain would have wanted to yield the Carolinas, the Palaos and the Marianas, but would have reserved the sovereignty over a few little islands of scarce economic value over which it had never exercised its factual sovereignty", concluding that Spain does not preserve any sovereignty over any Pacific islands or atolls. Currently Mapia is under Indonesian sovereignty, Kapingamarangi, Ulithi and Nukuoro under the Federated States of Micronesia, and Rongerik is controlled by the Marshall Islands. See also Carolines Question Captaincy General of the Philippines Spanish East Indies Treaty of Washington (1900) References Further reading Pastor y Santos, Emilio. Territorios de soberanía española en Oceanía. Instituto de Estudios Africanos, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Madrid, 1950. External links Text of the Treaty (in Spanish) Treaties involving territorial changes Treaties concluded in 1899 Treaties of the German Empire Treaties of Spain under the Restoration Treaties extended to German New Guinea Islands of Oceania Mariana Islands History of the Northern Mariana Islands History of Oceania History of the