TNAG-0580-FCO40-713-UK-policy-on-status-of-Hong-Kong-1976 — Page 18

PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

for WRITTEN answer on..

14 December 1976

HKD

The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by

Noon, Houday

13 December 1976

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Mr Frank Hooley (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on what date the United Kingdom cease to transmit information on Hong Kong under Article 73(e) of the UN Charter; and for what reason this obligation under the Charter was disregarded.

Mr Evan Luard

The United Kingdom ceased to transmit information on Hong Kong to the Secretary General of the United Nations under Article 73(e) following the General Assembly's approval, in Resolution 2908 (XXVII) of 2nd November 1972-of a recommendation

by the Special Committee on the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples that Hong Kong should be removed from the list of territories to which that Declaration applies. The United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the United Nations explained in a letter of 14 December 1972 to the United Nations Secretary General that, in view of the General Assembly's approval of the

Her Majesty's Groverundet Special Committee's recommendation, HMG had decided that no useful purpose would be served by continuing to transmit information on Hong Kong.

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