KE AUPUNI UPDATE - NOVEMBER 2026
Announcing a New Book
I am very happy to announce that after a dozen years of working on several projects with my good friend, Mehmet Şükrü Güzel (a Turkish national who lives in Geneva), we finally completed writing a book titled, The Hawaiian Kingdom and the United Nations Charter.
Professor Mehmet Güzel and I spent years contemplating and formulating the book while working on other projects. I provided input to several of the 10 books Mehmet has written about various disputes and conflicts around the world and the solutions that lie within established international law and the UN Charter.
In 2017 Mehmet and I co-authored and published a book, The Modus Vivendi Situation of West Papua, which got significant notices in international circles and contributed to the both of us being nominated for the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. (The winner that year was an international peace consortium headed by friends of mine. So, in a way, it was still in the family.)
The Hawaiian Kingdom and the United Nations Charter is a 530-page book written as a dispassionate legal resource for international lawyers, to equip them to better advise their clients at the United Nations, the member countries and other concerned parties of the legal basis and their legal obligations to acknowledge the Hawaiian Kingdom as a sovereign, independent nation-state in continuity.
As a resource, this book will provide the vital information necessary to foster understanding and support for actions we plan to introduce soon at the United Nations General Assembly.
The Hawaiian Kingdom and the UN Charter examines the record through three legal questions.
What was the Kingdom's lawful status when the UN Charter entered into force in 1945? This book shows that since no recognized mode of State extinction ever occurred, the Hawaiian Kingdom, formally recognized in 1843 and party to forty-four treaties, remained a sovereign State in law in 1945. Nor did the US at any time legally acquire the Hawaiian Islands.
Could the United States in 1946 lawfully place Hawaii on the UN’s list of Non-Self-Governing Territories (a list of peoples and nations to be decolonized by exercising their right to self-determination)? The answer is: No. The listing wrongfully treated Hawaii, already a sovereign State in law, as a territory administered by the US.
Even if the NSGT listing of Hawaii was lawful, did the 1959 plebiscite and UNGA Resolution 1469 discharge the United States' Charter obligations? No. The sacred trust of Article 73 of the Charter was violated. The people it intended to protect were not consulted as such, independence was not offered, and UNGA Resolution 1469 was adopted based on incomplete information.
This book then draws the institutional consequence. It asserts that the UN General Assembly, bound by its Charter and assured by the United States' official Apology Resolution of 1993, that it (the UN) is obliged to grant non-member observer status to the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands, a sovereign state in continuity.
Currently the book is only available from in Hardcover or Ebook from the publisher, Lulu. Click lulu.com and search for The Hawaiian Kingdom and the United Nations Charter.
Aloha ʻĀina —
“Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.” — Queen Liliʻuokalani
Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono.
The sovereignty of the land is perpetuated in righteousness.
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Leon Siu
Hawaiian National
Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Hawaiian Kingdom (since 2001)
