46. 2006 年 11 月 2 日，负责立法事务的助理国务卿在给美属萨摩亚驻美国众议院代表的信中，阐述了美国政府的立场。他在信中指出，这些岛屿地区与联邦政府间政治关系的现状是美国的内政问题，而不属于给予殖民地国家和人民独立宣言执行情况特别委员会的工作范围。他还指出，特别委员会无权以任何方式改变美国与这些领土之间的关系，也无权与美国就它们的地位进行谈判。他进一步指出，同时，根据《联合国宪章》规定的定期向联合国提供有关非自治领土的经济、社会和教育状况的统计及其他技术性资料的义务，联邦政府向特别委员会提交了各美属领土年度最新情况报告，借此表明美国作为管理国而给予的合作，并更正特别委员会可能从其他来源收到的资料中出现的任何差错。
46. In a letter dated 2 November 2006 addressed to the delegate of American Samoa to the United States House of Representatives, the Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs elaborated on the position of the Government of the United States. He indicated that the status of the insular areas regarding their political relations with the federal Government was an internal United States issue, and not one that came within the purview of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. He also noted that the Special Committee had no authority to alter in any way the relationship between the United States and those territories and had no mandate to engage the United States in negotiations on their status. He further noted that, at the same time, in accordance with its obligations under the Charter of the United Nations to provide regularly to the United Nations statistical and other information of a technical nature relating to the economic, social and educational conditions in Non-Self-Governing Territories, the federal Government submitted annual updates on United States Territories to the Special Committee as a demonstration of United States cooperation as an administering Power and as a corrective to any errors in information that the Special Committee might have received from other sources.