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15 November 1976
Mr Frank Hooley (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on how many occasions since 1972 a statement was made by the United Kingdom representative concerning Hong Kong in the United Nations Special Committee on the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples; what was the substance of any such statement; whether any vote was taken in that period on the question of removing Hong Kong from the purview of the Committee at the request of the Government of the People's Republic of China; and how the United Kingdom representative voted there on.
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MR EVAN LUARD
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The United Kingdom Representative in the United Nations Special Committee on the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples has made no statement concerning Hong Kong since 1972, and no vote has been taken during this period on the question of removing Hong Kong from the purview of the Committee. Special Committee's report covering its work in 1972, which included a recommendation that Hong Kong should be removed from the list of territories to which the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples applies, was approved by the General Assembly in resolution 2908 (XXVII) on 2nd November 1972.