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Territories covered by the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. With regard to the questions of Hong Kong and Macau, the Chinese Government has consistently held that they should be settled in an appropriat way when conditions are ripe. The United Nations has no rimtë to discuss these questions. For the above reasons, the Chinese delegation is opposed to including Hong Kong and Macau in the list of Colonial Territories covered by the Declaration and requests that the erroneous wording that Hong Kong and Macau fall under the category of so-called "Colonial Territories" be immediately removed from the documents of the Special Committee

and all other United Nations documents.

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(Signed) HUANG Hua

Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations

Fr. 14/12.