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UNITED KINGDOM MISSION TO THE United Nations
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Miss TA H Solesby
UN Department
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COMMITTEE OF 24: BRIEFING AND REPORTING
17 January 1973
This is the time of the year (see my letter of 28 January 1972 to Goodfellow) when we let the Department know what briefing we shall need for the Committee of 24. We are of course no longer closely involved with the Committee and it is highly unlikely that we will ever wish to take part in one of the sub-committees but we do need to be kept generally informed on developments in our territories and in the Associated States so that we may be prepared for informal discussions with the Secretariat and with the more reasonable members of the sub- committees dealing with British territories. All in all, therefore, we feel that our requirements for this year will be about the same as for 1972: i e copies of telegrams on the more significant developments in our territories and any other papers which you think we should know about. So far as the usual questionnaires are concerned we can wait until the General Assembly.
2. May I assume that your reporting requirements are as last year? You will remember that we confined our descriptions of the Committee's activities to a letter on anything we' think of note, with a round-up at the end of debates on the more important items.
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We hope to renew once more our unofficial procedure whereby our contact in the Secretariat lets us have copies of the draft working papers on British territories before they are published, and to continue a similar system with regard to advance copies of petitions of interest
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