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A J Coles Esq

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10 Downing Street

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..In Confidence

CAVEAT.......

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. You said that the Prime

Minister was inclined to think that the decision may

have been mistaken.

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In accordance with Article 73(e) of the United

Nations Charter, requesting all United Nations Members

to enumerate the particular non-self-governing

territories under their jurisdiction, the United

Kingdom began transmitting information on Hong Kong

to the Secretary General annually from 1947. In 1960

the General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the

Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples

(Resolution 1514 of 1960). The Committee of 24 approved

a preliminary list of territories, including Hong Kong,

to which the Declaration applied. This was done in 1963,

when the Committee of 24 took over the function of the

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