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Government had not yet submitted information on Bermuda and the Federation of Malaya for 1949, while the information on Nigeria had been submitted so late that the Secretariat had not yet been able to analyze and summarize it.
(b) TERRITORIES ENUMERATED (A/AC.28/W.6)
Mr. SOLDATOV (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) pointed out that documents submitted to the Committee by the Secretariat included references to Indonesia and the Indonesian Republic;
was,
Indonesia
in fact, listed among the Non-Self-Governing Territories in document A/AC.28/W.6. He recalled that during the 1948 session of the Special Committee, the USSR representative had stressed that information on Indonesia should not be discussed by the Committee, since the Republic of Indonesia had become an independent State by the will of its people. At that time, the Secretariat had attempted to justify the inclusion of materials on Indonesia among the documentation submitted to the Committee by a formal explanation that, since information on Indonesia had been submitted by the Netherlands Government, the Secretariat was
In the current year, however, obliged to present it to the Committee. that explanation did not apply, as no information on Indonesia had
been submitted.
The USSR delegation, therefore, again insisted that information on the Republic of Indonesia should be excluded from the documents before the Committee, inasmuch as the Republic of Indonesia was an independent State.
Mr. SPITS (Netherlands) recalled that when that point had been raised by the USSR representative in 1948, the representative of the Netherlands had explained that his Government had transmitted the information in question because the whole of Indonesia was still under the sovereignty of the Netherlands; indeed, the Renville Agreement made it clear that the sovereignty of the Netherlands was recognized
The question of sovereignty even by the Republican Government itself. was no longer governed by the Renville Agreement but by the Van Royen-Rum Agreement; a round-table conference was taking place in the Hague on that issue. It was clear that sovereignty over the whole of Indonesia was still in the hands of the Netherlands Government: consequently, it was quite in order for the Netherlands Government to transmit informa- tion on that Territory in accordance with Article 73 e.
/Mr. SHIVA RAO