TNAG-0580-FCO40-713-UK-policy-on-status-of-Hong-Kong-1976 — Page 74

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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

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15 November 1976

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12 November 1976.

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Mr Frank Hooley (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on how many occasions since 1972 a statement was made by the United Kingdom representative concerning Hong Kong in the United Nations Special Committee on the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples; what was the substance of any such statement; whether any vote was taken in that period on the question of removing Hong Kong from the purview of the Committee at the request of the Government of the People's Republic of China; and how the United Kingdom representative voted there on.

Mr Evan Luard

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The

The United Kingdom Representative in the United Nations

Special Committee on the Implementation of the Declaration on

the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples

has made no statement concerning Hong Kong since 1972, and no

vote has been taken during this period on the question of

removing Hong Kong from the purview of the Committee.

Special Committee's report covering its work in 1972, which

included a recommendation that Hong Kong should be removed from

the list of territories to which the Declaration on the

Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples

applies, was approved by the General Assembly in resolution

2908 (XXVII) on the 2nd of November 1972.

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