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14 December 1976
Mr Frank Hooley (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will publish in the Official Report the substance of the letter dated 8th March 1972 (UN document A/AC 109/396) submitted to the UN Special Committee of 24 by Huang Hua, Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to the UN concerning the international status of Hong Kong; and if he will take steps to establish the current position of the People's Republic of China.
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MR EVAN LUARD
The following is the full text of the letter of 8th March 1972 from the Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations to the Chairman of the Special Committee:
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"In connexion with the questions of Hong Kong and Macau, I have the honour to state the following: As is known to all, the questions of Hong Kong and Macau belong to the category of questions resulting from the series of unequal treaties left over by history, treaties which the imperialists imposed on China. Hong Kong and Macau are part of Chinese territory occupied by the British and Portuguese authorities. settlement of the questions of Hong Kong and Macau is entirely within China's sovereign right and does not at all fall under the ordinary category of "Colonial Territories". Consequently, they should not be included in the list of Colonial Territories covered by the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. With regard to the questions of Hong Kong and Macau, the Chinese Government has consistently held that they should be settled in an appropriate way when conditions are ripe. The
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