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16-9-49.

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have

not

these

bakers

before

and

the

facts

briefly

follows.

In 1947, 1968

+1949 the U.S.

Govt refrained from trammitting

about the Panama Canal

information

'Charter

M

the grounds

Zone under AM: 73(e) of the U.N.

that the status

M

the

burbose

was the

with the

Zone for this

sulged of consultation

Panama Gout. The latter claimed that

the Zone

a

could

not

be considered

self-governing territory and that

sovereignty

over it

rested with

the Republic of Panama.

the chuiere delegate

has sought to claim

that

the

Koutcom

position of

the

is the

same

New Territories and

in

These tevitares

so far

sovereignty over

with the Gook of China. His

vests

substantive

remarks

aume

1

recorded in

The ence to (9). The UK's position in the

matter has been reserved

not anxious for

but

wome

art

public debate of the

over the

difficult question of sovereignty over

N. Teroitures

matter may

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Kowloom.

As is pointed out in (9) the

next Committee

be raised

and

wal

again in the

should have

live clear. The issue of sovereignty

Cem

perhaps starad

be

not

the

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avoided by taking

the question of whether

New Territories

are non

self-governing. For the period of the