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POSSIBLE CHINESE ACCESSION TO THE CONVENDTON AND PROTOCOL ON THE STATUS OF REFUGEES

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Poonle's Daily

Thank you for your letter of 8 Septembar. of 24 August contained a fuller roport of the resolution than

as you the NCNA bulletin. I enclose a copy of this which will see, says that the 24th session of the 5th MPA Standing Committee decided that the PRC should accode to the Convention and Protoral on the Status of Refucces

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2. A statement was issued at the same time covering China's reservations about parts of articles 14 and Convention and anticle 4 of the Protocol.

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