(partial list post-1999)
Resolutions/Letters of Support
United Nations Decolonization Committee Resolutions (various years, including the following:)
Special Committee decision of 15 June 2009 concerning Puerto Rico
A/AC.109/2010/L.8.
Special Committee decision of 15 June 2009 concerning Puerto Rico
A/AC.109/2009/L.13.
Special Committee decision of 9 June 2008 concerning Puerto Rico
A/AC.109/2008/L.7.
Special Committee decision of 14 June 2007 concerning Puerto Rico
https://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/N08/280/25/PDF/N0828025.pdf?OpenElement
Special Committee decision of 12 June 2006 concerning Puerto Rico
https://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/N07/297/33/PDF/N0729733.pdf?OpenElement
Special Committee decision of 13 June 2005 concerning Puerto Rico
https://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/N06/301/15/PDF/N0630115.pdf?OpenElement
Special Committee decision of 14 June 2004 concerning Puerto Rico
https://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/N05/302/27/PDF/N0530227.pdf?OpenElement
Special Committee decision of 9 June 2003 concerning Puerto Rico
https://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/N04/296/38/PDF/N0429638.pdf?OpenElement
Special Committee decision of 10 June 2002 concerning Puerto Rico
https://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/N03/356/03/PDF/N0335603.pdf?OpenElement
Senado, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico [Senate, Free Associated State of Puerto Rico]
Cámara de Representantes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico [House of Representatives, Free Associated State of Puerto Rico] (May 2004)
Cámara de Representantes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico [House of Representatives, Free Associated State of Puerto Rico] (October 2006)
Puerto Rico House of Representatives Popular Democratic Party Caucus
Association of Mayors of Puerto Rico (Asociación de Alcaldes de Puerto Rico)
American Association of Jurists (Buenos Aires, Argentina September 2008)
American Association of Jurists (Caracas, Venezuela September 2009)
American Association of Jurists (Quito, Ecuador, 2010)
American Association of Jurists, Puerto Rico Chapter
International Association of Democratic Lawyers (Hanoi, Viet Nam, June 2009)
National Lawyers Guild (Seattle, WA 2009)
National Lawyers Guild (New Orleans, LA 2010)
United Methodist Church (Fort Worth, TX)
Methodist Church of Puerto Rico (Fort Worth, TX)
Methodist Church of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras, Puerto Rico)
Congreso Latinoamericano y Caribeño por la Independencia de Puerto Rico [Latin American and Caribbean Congress for the Independence of Puerto Rico] (Panamá)
Resolution of the Puerto Rican Agenda for the 21st Century (New York City)
Human Rights Commission of the Bar Association of Puerto Rico
Bar Association of Puerto Rico, by its President Celina Romany Siaca
Coalición Ecuménica e Interreligiosa de Puerto Rico1 [Ecumenical and Interreligious Coalition of Puerto Rico]
Socialist International, Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean (Guatemala)
Asamblea Municipal de Hormigueros [City Council of Hormigueros]
Legislatura Municipal de Lajas [City Council of Lajas]
Legislatura Municipal de Guánica [City Council of Guánica]
Asamblea Municipal de San Sebastián [City Council of San Sebastían]
Asamblea Municipal de Comerío [City Council of Comerío]
Asamblea Municipal de Mayagüez [City Council of Mayagüez]
Asamblea Municipal de Jayuya [City Council of Jayuya]
Asamblea Municipal de Añasco [City Council of Añasco]
Unión de Trabajadores de la Industria Eléctrica y Riego— UTIER [Union of Workers of the Electrical Industry]
Un Pueblo: Diálogo de líderes puertorriqueños sobre asuntos sociales y mecanismos procesales para resolver el asunto del estatus [One People: Dialogue of Puerto Rican leaders about social affairs and procedural mechanisms to resolve the status question; including Service Employees International Union, Unión General de Trabajadores UGT 1199PR, Sindicato Puertorriqueños de Trabajadores SPT1996] (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Hermandad de Empleados Exentos No Docentes de la Universidad de Puerto Rico [Brotherhood of Exempt Non Teaching Employees of the University of Puerto Rico]
El Partido de los Trabajadores (PT) [Workers Party]
World Federation of Trade Unions, Region of the Americas
International Syndicate of Elevator Constructors of Mexico
Cooperative of Equipping and Maintaining Vertical Transport of Mexico
Popular Alternative Party of Panama
Cooperativa Ahorro y Crédito de la Casa del Trabajador [Workers’ House Savings and Credit Cooperative]
Grito de los Excluidos [Cry of the Excluded] Conference in Santo Domingo; and Madrid
Conmemoración del Grito de Lares [Commemoration of the Cry of Lares]
Conmemoración del Cero de los Mártires [Commemoration of Martyrs’ Day]
Centro Cultural Cirilo W. Meijers, Comerío, Puerto Rico
Elected Officials and Civic Leaders
Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Former Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
The Most Reverend Desmond M. Tutu, OMSG, DD, FRC, Anglican Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa
Sila M. Calderón, former Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Carlos J. López Nieves, Produrador del Ciudadano [Ombudsman]
William Miranda Marín, Mayor of Caguas, Puerto Rico
Pedro J. García Figueroa, Mayor of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico
Dámaso Serrano, Mayor of Vieques, Puerto Rico
Javier Jiménez Pérez, Mayor of San Sebastián, Puerto Rico
Aníbal Vega Borges, Mayor of Toa Baja, Puerto Rico
María de Lourdes Santiago, former Senator, Senate of Puerto Rico
Norma Burgos, Senator, Senate of Puerto Rico
Rubén Berríos Martínez, former Senator, Senate of Puerto Rico; President, Puerto Rican Independence Party
Eduardo Morales Coll, President, Ateneo Puertorriqueño
José E. Serrano, Member of U.S. Congress
Luis V. Gutiérrez, Member of U.S. Congress
Nydia M. Velázquez, Member of U.S. Congress
Pedro R. Pierluisi, Member of U.S. Congress
Rubén Díaz, Sr., Senator, State of New York Senate
José Rivera, Assemblyman, State of New York Assembly
Cármen Arroyo, Assemblywoman, State of New York Assembly
Peter Rivera, Senator, State of New York Assembly
Tony Payton, State Representative, Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Nickie J. Antonio, State Representative, Ohio House of Representatives
Melissa Mark Viverito, Council Member, City Council of the City of New York
Joel Rivera, Council Member, City Council of the City of New York
Rosie Méndez, Council Member, City Council of the City of New York
Gale A. Brewer, Council Member, City Council of the City of New York
Letitia James, Council Member, City Council of the City of New York
Brad Lander, Council Member, City Council of the City of New York
Ydanis Rodríguez, Council Member, City Council of the City of New York
Jumaane Williams, Council Member, City Council of the City of New York
Danny Dromm, Council Member, City Council of the City of New York
Charles Barron, Council Member, City Council of the City of New York
Margaret S. Chin, Council Member, City Council of the City of New York
Fernando Cabrera, Council Member, City Council of the City of New York
María D. Quiñones Sánchez, Councilwoman, City Council of the City of Philadelphia
John Avalos, City Supervisor, San Francisco, California
Angel Ortiz, former Council Member, City Council of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Billy Ocasio, former Alderman, City of Chicago
Roberto Maldonado, former Member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, Chicago; current Alderman, City of Chicago
Jesús G. García, Member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, Chicago
Edwin Reyes, Member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, Chicago
Cynthia Soto, State Representative, State of Illinois House of Representatives
Iris Y. Martínez, State Representative, State of Illinois House of Representatives
Gayle McLaughlin, Mayor, City of Richmond, California
Manny Ortiz, former Deputy Mayor, City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Maxime Roumer, Senator of the Republic of Haiti
Edward James Olmos, actor
Ramón L. Fuentes, President, Federación Puertorriqueña de Trabajadores [Puerto Rican Federation of Workers]
Luis Pedraza Leduc, Labor Coordinating Committee
Religious Leaders
Mons. Roberto Octavio González Nieves, OFM, Arzobispo Metropolitano de San Juan, Puerto Rico [Archbishop of San Juan]
Luis Cardenal Aponte Martínez, Archbishop Emeritus of San Juan
Mons. Félix Lázaro Martínez, SchP, Bishop of Ponce
Mons. Iñaki Mallona Txertudi, CP, Bishop of Arecibo
Mons. Ulises Casiano Vargas, Bishop of Mayagüez
Mons. Rubén A. González Medina, CMP, Bishop of Caguas
Mons. Héctor Rivera Pérez, Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan
Mons. Hermín Negrón Santana, Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan
Conferencia Episcopal Puertorriqueña [Puerto Rican Episcopal Conference]
Padre Angel Darío Carrero, OFM, Custodio de los Franciscanos del Caribe
Reverend Heriberto Martínez, Secretary General of the Biblical Society of Puerto Rico
Reverend Eunice Santana, Iglesia de los Discípulos de Cristo [United Church of Christ], former President of the World Council of Churches, Director of the Caribbean Institute of Ecumenical Formation and Action
Reverend Alfonso Román, retired, United Church of Christ
Reverend Dr. C. Nozomi Ikuta, Interfaith Prisoners of Conscience Ministry
Rev. Dr. Pedro J. Windsor, Lead Pastor, The Neighborhood Chapel (Reformed Evangelical Church), Chicago
Reverend Jose Rosa, Pastor, First Congregational Church of Chicago
Reverend Walter Coleman, Pastor, Adalberto United Methodist Church, Chicago
Father Luis Berrios, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, New York City
Reverend Luis Cortéz, Chettenham, PA, La Nueva Esperanza/Hispanic Clergy
Father Carlos Santos, Cristo y San Ambrosio Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA
Reverend Roger Zeppernick, Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, PA
Reverend Wilfredo De Jesús, Senior Pastor, New Life Covenant Church and Vice President of Social Justice, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, Chicago, IL