H.E. Mr.

Dario Ramirez Diaz Carreno

Chair of the Special Committee
Disarmamrnt and peace Affairs Branch, GAEAD
Department for General Assembly and
Conference Management (DGACM)
United Nations, Room S-3062
New York, NY 10017, USA
Greetings,
I am an Ancestral Original Inhabitant of the Virgin Islands of the United States who by this
late request have been subjected to the lack of tangible and timely information relative to
the United Nations Resolution 1514 and would appreciate the opportunity to have my
concerns registered with the Committee on Decolonization (C-24). With best of intentions
as an Ancestral Virgin Islander I in protest voice my concerns as they relate to the efforts
put forth to achieve the terms of UN Resolution 1514 by The Government of The Virgin
Islands of The United States.
This allows for clarification the possiblity of false representation of the interest of the
Peoples of TheVirgin Islands of The United States by individuals or organizations who
may represent officials directly or inderctly. Officials who are not freely elected by the
people for the past twenty years according to findings by the Election Assistance
Commission.
Our election system have been compromised allowing for the development of a culture of
corruption that affects the daily affairs of the territory to the extent that vital dissemination
of information relative to the United Nations resolution 1514 is non-existant. This
condition and deliberate practice renders the people of the Virgin Islands ignorant to the
mandate of UN Resolution 1514 and results in deliberately delays that violates UN
Resolution 1514.
As Ancestral Indigenous Virgin Islanders the ability to self identify based on our ancestry
of over four thousand years allows for the correction of a history that is used to identify us
as a people while denying and removing our natural rights, our Ancestral Indigenous
Peoples rights and most common Human Rights. A people who have been the ongoing
recipients of an inhumane classification and archaic status that the United Nations in
resolution 1514 decided to end since December of 1960.
This status disenfranchises us from a colonial super power that declares to the world that
the human rights of a people can be denied, is being denied on economical, cultural,
political, religious, the right to self-identify and self-determination a basic most important
Human Right. It is a staus that produces conditions that in December of 1960 the United
Nations Resolution 1514 concluded in agreement are the very causes of wars.
I recognize the United Nations efforts to have the peoples of Non-Self Governing
Territories heard in this process of decolonization and Self-Determination. The United
Nation Resolution 1514 afforded us this process which we are all willingly participating
in its implementation while we endure the time it takes to achieve the intent of the United
Nations Resolution 1514. the Declaration to Decolonize the World and to gather in
solidarity the Peoples of Non-Self Governing Territories, a category to which unfortunately
The Virgin Islands of The United States are in. I thank you for this opportunity to put into
record my concerns relative to United Nations Resolution 1514.
Respectfully,

Russell Christopher
rchristopher915@gmail.com