With the Committee's consent, Carlyle Corbin, on behalf of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands, made a statement (see A AC.109 2005 SR.11).

The historian Thomas Carlyle considered Muhammad one of the world's greatest heroes, yet even he called the Koran as toilsome reading as I ever undertook, a wearisome, confused jumble.

At its 9th meeting, on 16 June 2005, with the consent of the Special Committee, Carlyle Corbin, representative of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands, made a statement (see A AC.109 2005 SR.9).

At the 4th meeting of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, on 8 June 2004, Carlyle Corbin, on behalf of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands, made a statement (see A AC.109 2004 SR.4).

The following special observers were also in attendance H.E Mr. Fred M. Castro, Administrator, Guam Environmental Protection Agency, Ministry of Environment, Dr. Roland Antonius, Ministerial Adviser for the Council of Ministers of the Netherland Antilles, Mr. Rafael Subero Collazo, Assistant Secretary of State for the Foreign Affairs of Puerto Rico, Dr. Carlyle Corbin, Minister of State for External Affairs of United States for External Affairs.