TNAG-0580-FCO40-713-UK-policy-on-status-of-Hong-Kong-1976 — Page 25

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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

for WRITTEN answer on 14 December 1976

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

Noon, Mouday

13 December 1976.

Mr Frank Hooley (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will publish in the Official Report the substance of the letter dated 8th March 1972 (UN document A/AC 109/396) submitted to the UN Special Committee of 24 by Huang Hua, Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to the UN concerning the international status of Hong Kong; and if he will take steps to establish the current position of the People's Republic of China. :

I a arranging for the full text of the letter referred to by my Hon Friend to be published in the Official Report. The Government of the People's Republic of China have given no indication that their position concerning the status of liong Kong has changed since the letter in question was written and I see no need to take action along the lines suggested in the second part of my Hon Friend's Question.

For the Official Report

The following is the text of the letter of 8th March 1972 from the Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations to the Chairman of the Special Committee.

"In connexion with the questions of Hong Kong and Macau,

I have the honour to state the following:

As is known to all, the questions of Hong Kong and acau belong to the category of questions resulting from the series of unequal treaties left over by history, treaties which the imperialists imposed on China. Hong Kong and Macau are part of Chinese territory occupied The settle:nent by the British and Portuguese authorities.

of the questions of Hong Kong and Macau is entirely within China's sovereim right and does not at all fall under the ordinary category of "colonial Territories".. Consequently, they should not be included in the list of colonial

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