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Committee of Information from Non-Self-Government Territories. Three representatives (Bulgaria, Cambodia and the USSR) in
the Working Group of the Committee of 24 reserved the positions of their Governments with regard to the inclusion of Hong Kong in this list because they regarded this territory as an integral part of the People's Republic of China forcibly occupied by the United Kingdom.
On 8 March 1972 the Permanent Representative of the
The Clins seat People's Republic of China, in a letter to the Chairman of
in late 1981.
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the Committee of 24, asked for the removal of Hong Kong from the list of territories to which the Declaration applied.
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copy of the letter is attached. He stated in the letter that Hong Kong was part of Chinese territory occupied by the United Kingdom and that the settlement of the question of long Kong fell entirely within China's sovereign right.
The letter was referred to the Working Group of the Committee of 24. The Working Group's recommendation that the General Assembly should adopt the decision removing Hong Kong from the list of non-self-governing countries, was approved by the Committee of 24 and included in its report to the General Assembly. The resolution, approving the report, was adopted in Plenary on 2 November 1972. However, it also contained much offensive language on, inter alia, South Africa and military bases. This is an
nnual ritual and the United Kingdom as usual voted against the resolution, which was adopted by 99
23, and did hot participate in the discussion or speak in explanation
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