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Mr. SHIVA RAO (India) endorsed the views expressed by the USSR

representative and recalled that at the third session of the General Assembly the Indian delegation had, in the Fourth Committee, expressed strong disapproval of the inclusion of references to the Republic of Indonesia in a report dealing exclusively with Non-Self-Governing Territories. Without wishing to make any additional remarks on the

subject so as not to influence in any way the outcome of the Hague conference, he nevertheless stressed that the USSR representative's

arguments carried considerable weight.

Mr. SOLDATOV (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) reserved. the right to make a proposal on the subject of Indonesia later if the

need arose.

Mr. FLETCHER-COOKE (United Kingdom) said that, if any such proposal was made, he would wish to make a statement, not on the merits of the case but on the principles involved, and reserved his rights accordingly.

The CHAIRMAN stated that all members would be free to express their views when and if a proposal was made.

(c) INFORMATION CONCERNING THE CESSATION OF TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION IN VIRTUE OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 222 (III) (A/915 and A/915/Add.1) Mr. FARRAG (Egypt) recalled that the question of the enumeration of Non-Self-Governing Territories had been raised during the Committee's session in 1948, and that the definition of Non-Self-Governing Territories had been considered by Sub-Committee 2 of the Fourth Committee during the first part of the third session of the General Assembly. The same question arose again from the terms of paragraph 2 of Resolution 222 (III). The Committee was seized of communications received by the Secretary-General from the Governments of France, the United Kingdom and the United States of America concerning the cessation of transmission of information on

certain territories. The French communication stated that under Article 73

the determination of which territories whose peoples had not yet attained

a full measure of self-government, lay exclusively within the competence

of the States which had responsibilities for the administration of such

territories.' Mr. Farrag remarked that that had been true in international

law before the coming into force of the United Nations Charter; with the

Charter, however, a new conception of international law had been created,

which might properly be described as the theory of international accounta-

bility. In that connexion, he quoted from statements made at the twenty-

seventh plenary meeting of the General Assembly by representatives of the

United Kingdom and the United States, the first of whom had welcomed

Chapter XI of the Charter as an "international colonial convention".

/The United Nations