Original sentence: "   It was "the first time in 28 years that it had achieved consensus on that issue".Decontaminate the Vieques impact area.Every year, member nations of the United Nations Decolonization Committee assemble for a hearing calling for Puerto Rico’s independence.Halt the persecution, arrests and harassment of peaceful demonstrators.It was then an autonomous territory of Spain, with its own legislature, courts, and money.On June 15, 2009, the Special Committe on Decolonization approved text calling on the U.Order a halt to its armed forces' military drills and manoeuvres on the inhabited island of Vieques.Respect the fundamental rights of demonstrators.Return the occupied land to the Puerto Rican people.Some report that Puerto Rico enjoyed considerably more autonomy in 1898, when it was invaded by the United States, than it does today.Special Committee decisions on Puerto Rico have occurred every year since 2003.The Assembly also called for the release of 11 Puerto Rican prisoners and expressed "its hope that the President of the United States would release all Puerto Rican political prisoners serving sentences in United States prisons on cases related to the struggle for the independence of Puerto Rico.The Special Committee took action on a text by which the General Assembly would encourage the United States Government to.to expedite self-determination process for Puerto Rico, "a process that would allow the Puerto Rican people to exercise fully their inalienable right to self-determination and independence