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Question of Southern Rhodesia

A/RES/2383(XXIII)No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1969.

What else is in this group?

36 documents · 1963–1980
Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 1980).
  • 1980A/RES/34/192Question of Southern RhodesiaCompare with earlier document
  • 1979A/RES/33/38[B]Question of Southern RhodesiaCompare with earlier document
  • 1979A/RES/33/38A-BQuestion of Southern Rhodesia resolutionsCompare with earlier document
  • 1979A/RES/33/38[A]Question of Southern RhodesiaCompare with earlier document
  • 1978A/RES/32/116[B]Question of Southern RhodesiaCompare with earlier document

This group bundles related documents that are not individually ordered.

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What subjects does this mandate have?

9 topics
AssassinationDetained PersonsMilitary AssistanceNational Liberation MovementsPolitical PrisonersPortugalSanctionsSouth AfricaSouthern Rhodesia

What does this mandate say?

4 operative paragraphs
1
Reafferms the inalienable right of the people of Zimbabwe to freedom and independence and the legitimacy of their struggle to attain that right in confo~mity with the provisions of General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV);
2
Affirms the responsibility of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as the administering Power, for the continuing deterioration of the situation, and its conviction that the only effective way of quelling the rebellion in Southern Rhodesia is through the use of force by the administering Power;
3
Conde-mns the failure and the refusal of the Government of the United Kingdom, as the administering Power, to take effective measures to bring down the illegal racist minority régime in Southern Rhodesia and to transfer power, based on free elections by universal adult suffrage and on majority rule, to the people of Zimbabwe;
4
Afferms its conviction that the sanctions so far
adopted will not put an end to the illegal racist minority régime unless they are comprehensive, mandatory, strictly supervised by force and complied with, in particular by South Africa and Portugal ;

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