57. 在海外领土部长级联合理事会第六次会议通过的公报中，联合王国政府和海外领土领导人指出，《宪章》庄严载明的人民享有平等权利与自决权之原则适用于海外领土的人民。他们重申必须促进各领土人民的自决权，而这是联合王国政府所有部门的集体责任。他们承诺探索如何让海外领土在反击敌对的主权主张方面能够继续得到国际支持。对那些有永久居民希望从非自治领土名单上除名的领土，联合王国将继续支持其除名请求。联合王国政府和海外领土领导人一致认为，联合王国与各海外领土间宪法关系的基本结构是正确的——在联合王国保留履行其主权责任所必需的权力情况下，已尽最大可能把权力下放给各领土的民选政府。他们还一致认为，需要继续就这些问题进行接触，以确保宪政安排有效发挥作用并得到切实发展，促进各领土和联合王国的最佳利益。
57. In the communiqué adopted at the sixth meeting of the Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council, the Government of the United Kingdom and the leaders of the overseas territories indicated that the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, as enshrined in the Charter, applied to the peoples of the overseas territories. They reaffirmed the importance of promoting the right of the peoples of the territories to self-determination, a collective responsibility of all parts of the Government of the United Kingdom. They committed themselves to exploring the ways in which the overseas territories could maintain international support in countering hostile sovereignty claims. For those Territories with permanent populations who wished it, the United Kingdom would continue to support their requests for removal from the list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. The Government of the United Kingdom and the leaders of the overseas territories agreed that the fundamental structure of their constitutional relationships had been the right one — powers were devolved to the elected Governments of the territories to the maximum extent possible consistent with the United Kingdom retaining those powers necessary to discharge its sovereign responsibilities. They also agreed upon t he need to continue their engagement on those issues to ensure that constitutional arrangements worked and were developed effectively to promote the best interests of the territories and of the United Kingdom.