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SCR 32/66 II
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BANGKOK
8 January 1974
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HONG KONG AND ECAFE
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David Whitelegge, Hong Kong's Commissioner for
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Census and Statistics, recently attended the Conference of Asian Statisticians in Delhi. He came up against the old problem of the inclusion of Hong Kong under the category of "country" in various conference documents. The draft report of the conference uses "country" passim.
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Whitelegge has written to Mr. T.V. Viswanathan, the Chief of ECAFE's Statistics Division about various points raised by the Conference, and has in the process mentioned this lapse. I enclose a copy of his letter. It puts our position on record and can I suppose be used as evidence should China, or another, object to the extension of the term "country" to Hong Kong. We should be grateful for anything that you can do with the ECAFE Secretariat to get them generally to adopt the anodyne term "territory" when referring to Associate Members.
3.
China vas not represented at this particular Conference, so that this is an exercise in education rather
than in correction.
4.
The background to this is given in Dick Stratton's letter SCR 32/66 II of 11 May to Richard Evans copied to
My letter to John Sharland of 22 June is also
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relevant.
(T,J B George)
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CC Miss P M Kelly
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