The United Nations deems Guam to be subject to the decolonization process.
Guam . Guam is among the seventeen Non-Self-Governing Territories of the United Nations . United Nations . The organization 's membership grew significantly following widespread decolonization in the 1960s , and by the 1970s its budget for economic and social development programmes far outstripped its spending on peacekeeping . The United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories is a list of places that the United Nations General Assembly deems to be `` non-self-governing '' and subject to the decolonization process .