§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will name the British colonies which have been removed from the United Nations list of colonial territories during the current year.
§ Mr. AmeryGeneral Assembly Resolution No. 2908 (XXVII) of 2nd November approved the Report of the Special Committee on the situation with regard to the granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. That Reportinter alia recommended the exclusion of Hong Kong from the list of territories to which the United Nations Declaration on Decolonisation applied. The United Kingdom delegate voted 430W against the resolution as a whole because it contained several proposals unacceptable to Her Majesty's Government.