UN mission weighs in on independence

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UN mission weighs in on independence

When a three-member United Nations mission visited the Virgin Islands for the first time nearly 50 years ago, it found that a major obstacle in the territory’s path toward independence was economic. In 1976, the UN’s Special Committee on Decolonisation, also known as the C-24, asked the United Kingdom to “intensify” budgetary and economic aid to the territory, and it “reaffirmed the inalienable right” of the people of the VI to “self-determinati…