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QUESTIONS PREPARATORY TO THE CONSIDERATION OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL S SUMMARIES AND ANALYSES OF INFORMATION TRANSMITTED DURING 1949: DATE OF RECEIPT OF INFORMATION (A/AC.28/W.6) (discussion continued)
The CHAIRMAN, speaking as representative of the United States of America, explained that the reason why his Government had been rather late in submitting information was that it had not been advised of the change in the stipulated period of transmission until September 1948, and had therefore been unable to prepare the necessary information by December of that year. It fully intended to transmit
information within the prescribed period in the future.
Mr. LAKING (New Zealand) stated that information concerning
Cook Island had been transmitted by his Government since the note by the Secretariat (A/AC.28/W.6) had been issued. He expressed his Government's
regret for the delay.
Mr. FLETCHER-COOKE (United Kingdom) pointed out that at the
time the Secretariat document had been prepared his Government had failed
to submit information on only three of the many Non-Self-Governing
Territories under its administration; since that time, it had sent in
information on one of the three territories, Nigeria. He stressed that
the work of compiling data for transmission to the Secretariat and other organs of the United Nations placed a considerable burden on the
administrative staffs of the United Kingdom Territories, a burden which
would be increased if it was decided that such data should be still more
voluminous in the future. He was therefore unable to go further than to
say that his Government would, as it had done in the past, do its best
to send in the required information within the prescribed period.
Mr. SOLDATOV (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) remarked
that the note by the Secretariat showed that many Administering Powers
had submitted information at a very late date, thus complicating
the work of the Secretariat and the Special Committee. He took note
of the assurance just given by the United Kingdom representative that
his Government would endeavour to transmit information on time in
the future; nevertheless, in the interests of the Committee's
future work, it should not be overlooked that the United Kingdom