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Mr. FLETCHER-COOKE (United Kingdom) remarked that it was plain from paragraph 2 of General Assembly Resolution 146 (III), which contained the Committee's terms of reference, that the Committee was not competent to adopt a resolution such as proposed by the Egyptian representative. The remarks of the Egyptian and Indian representatives on the subject would, however, be duly recorded in the Committee's report to the
General Assembly.
Mr. FARRAG (Egypt) could not agree that it was outside the competence of the Committee to request the General Assembly for the definition of a term which was part of the Committee's very name and which
had to be clarified to enable it properly to accomplish its work.
Mr. GARREAU (France) felt that the whole discussion was not in
order, and should have taken place in the Fourth Committee. He endorsed
the observations of the United Kingdom representative with respect to
the Egyptian proposal.
If the General Assembly were to establish a list of Non-Self-Governing Territories, it might well do so on the basis of complaints
ch as
from peoples who considered
were being daily received by the Secretariat
themselves to be in subjection to foreign Powers. Not all those Powers had recognized, however, that they were administering Non-Self-Governing
Territories. It would therefore be a dangerous course for the
General Assembly to embark upon.
Mr. STOLK (Venezuela) supported the proposal of the Egyptian
representative. It was difficult to see how the Committee could carry
out its terms of reference unless the meaning of the term "Non-Self- Governing Territory" was clearly defined. The proposal was not one of
substance and he considered that it was within the Committee's terms of
reference.
Mr. SHIVA RAO (India) agreed with the representatives of the
United Kingdom, France and Australia that the Committee's terms of
reference were strictly limited: it must consider the information
submitted and it might submit reports on that information to the
General Assembly, make procedural recommendations and such substantive
/recommendations as