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EXTRACT FROM SUMMARY RECORDS OF PROCEEDINGS OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON 26TH AUGUST, 1949

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Mr. LI (China) quoted the statement of the United States Government in document A/915/Add.1 that the Panama Canal Zone "could not be considered a Non-Self- Governing Territory and that sovereignty over the Canal Zone rested in the Republic of Panama", and that for that reason the Canal Zone had been omitted from the list of territories on which information was transmitted.

In that connexion he referred to document A/908/Add.3 information transmitted by the Government of the United Kingdom concerning Hong Kong - which stated that the Colony of Hong Kong comprised the island of Hong Kong, the Kowloon Territory and the New Territories. Sovereignty over Kowloon and the New Territories was vested in the Republic of China. If, in accordance with the position taken up by the United States, the fact that the sovereignty over a territory did not belong to the Administering Authority was a sufficient reason for ceasing to transmit information, the Committee should take note of that fact with reference to Kowloon and the New Territories.

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