The Assistant Secretary's letter noted that the status of those Insular Areas regarding their political relations with the federal Government were United States internal issues and not those of the Special Committee on Decolonization.
该助理国务卿的信指出，这些岛屿地区与联邦政府的政治关系地位是美国的内政问题，而不是非殖民化特别委员会（24国委员会）的问题。