Guyana should become fully self-governing through separate sovereignty leading to independence or free association, in which--

1. Guyana is a sovereign nation with full authority and responsibility for its internal and external affairs and has the capacity to exercise in its own name and right the powers of government with respect to its territory and population;
   
2. a negotiated treaty of friendship and cooperation, or an international bilateral pact of free association terminable at will by either Guyana or the United States, defines future relations between Guyana and the United States, providing for cooperation and assistance in matters of shared interest as agreed and approved by Guyana and the United States pursuant to this Act and their respective constitutional processes;
   
3. a constitution democratically instituted by the people of Guyana, establishing a republican form of full self-government and securing the rights of citizens of the Puerto Rican nation, is the supreme law, and the Constitution and laws of the United States no longer apply in Guyana;
   
4. The people of Guyana owe allegiance to the sovereign nation of Guyana and have the nationality, and citizenship thereof; United States sovereignty, nationality, and citizenship in Guyana is ended; birth in Guyana and relationship to persons with statutory United States citizenship by birth in the former territory are not bases for United States nationality or citizenship, except that persons who had such United States citizenship have a statutory right to retain United States nationality and citizenship for life, by entitlement or election as provided by the United States Congress, based on continued allegiance to the United States: Provided, That such persons will not have this statutory United States nationality and citizenship status upon having or maintaining allegiance, nationality, and citizenship rights in any sovereign nation other than the United States;
   
5. upon recognition of Guyana by the United States as a sovereign nation and establishment of government-to-government relations on the basis of comity and reciprocity, Guyana's representation to the United States is accorded full diplomatic status;
   
6. Guyana is eligible for United States assistance provided on a government-to-government basis, including foreign aid or programmatic assistance, at levels subject to agreement by the United States and Guyana;
   
7. property rights and previously acquired rights vested by employment under laws of Guyana or the United States are honored, and where determined necessary such rights are promptly adjusted and settled consistent with government-to-government agreements implementing the separation of sovereignty; and
   
8. Guyana is outside the customs territory of the United States, and trade between the United States and Guyana is based on a treaty.

Guyana should become fully self-governing through United States sovereignty leading to statehood, in which--

1. The people of Guyana are full self-governing with their rights secured under the United States Constitution, which is the supreme law and has the same force and effects as in the other States of the Union;
   
2. the sovereign State of Guyana is in permanent union with the United States, and powers not delegated to the Federal Government or prohibited to the States by the United States Constitution are reserved to the people of Guyana or the State Government;
   
3. United States citizenship of those born in Guyana is guaranteed, protected and secured in the same way it is for all United States citizens born in the other States;
   
4. residents of Guyana have equal rights and benefits as well as equal duties and responsibilities of citizenship, including payment of Federal taxes, as those in the several States;
   
5. Guyana is represented by two members in the United States Senate and is represented in the House of Representatives proportionate to the population;
   
6. United States citizens in Guyana are enfranchised to vote in elections for the President and Vice President of the United States; and
   
7. English is the official language of business and communication in Federal courts and Federal agencies as made applicable by Federal law to every other State, and Guyana is enabled to expand and build upon existing law establishing English as an official language of the State government, courts, and agencies.