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COUNITED NATIONS

GENERAL

ASSEMBLY.

Twenty-seventh session

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19 December 1972

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IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECLARATION ON THE GRANTING OF INDEPENDENCE TO COLONIAL COUNTRIES AND PEOPLES

INFORMATION FROM NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES TRANSMITTED UNDER ARTICLE 73 £ OF THE CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS

Letter dated 14 December 1972 from the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britin and Northern Ireland to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

I have the honour to refer to General Assembly resolution 2908 (XXVII) of 2 November 1972 and in particular to paragraph 3, which approved the report of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples covering its work during 1972. My Government have asked me to inform Your Excellency thut, in view of paragraph 73 of chapter 1 of the report of the Special Committee (A/8723 (part I)), they have decided that no useful practical purpose would be served by continuing to transmit information on Hong Kong, under Article 73 e of the United Nations Charter.. My Government have also asked me to state that the action of the Ceneral Assembly in no way affects the legal status of Hong Kong. The views of my Government about this, status are well known. They ure unable to accept any differing views which have been expressed or muy hereafter Le expressed by other Covernments.

I should be grateful if you would circulate this letter as a General Assembly

document.

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(Sirned)

C. T. CROWE

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