DSR 11 (Revised)
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CAVEAT.
....In Confidence
SUBJECT:
In your letter of 26 November you said that the Prime
Minister had asked for a detailed account of the
circumstances which led to our ceasing to report to the
United Nations on Hong Kong, ar
and you indicated that the
Prime Minister was inclined to think that the decision
may have been mistaken.
In accordance with Article 73(e) of the UN Charter,
requesting all UN members to ennumerate the particular
non-self-governing territories under their jurisdiction
the UK began transmitting information on Hong Kong to
the Secretary General annually from 1947.
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In 1960 the General Assembly adopted the Declaration on
the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and
Peoples. Following its establishment in 1961 the
Special Committee on the Declaration of Independence to
Colonial Countries and Peoples (now the Committee of 24)
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