Adverse Consequences for the Enjoyment of Human Rights of Political, Military, Economic and Other Forms of Assistance Given to the Racist and Colonialist Régime in South Africa

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1977.

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Reaffirms the inalienable right of the oppressed peoples of southern Africa to self-determination independence and the enjoyment of the natural reso~rces of their territories;

Reaffirms furt~er the right of these same oppressed peoples to dispose of those resources in their best interests and to receive full compensation for the exploitation, depletion and loss of and damage to their natural resources, including compensation for the exploitation and manipulation of their human resources;

Strongly condemns the collaboration of all States particularly France, the Federal Republic of Germany: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America, Israel and Japan, as well as those foreign economic interests which maintain and/ or continue to increase their collaboration with the racist regimes in southern Africa, especially in the economic, military and nuclear fields;

Reaffirms that the States and organizations which give assistance to the colonial and racist regimes in southern Africa are accomplices in the inhuman practices of racial discrimination, apartheid and colonialism perpetrated by those regimes;

Invites the Security Council to impose a total embargo on sales, gifts and the transfer of arms or any other kind of military supplies to South Africa;

Calls upon all States scrupulously to observe the sanctions imposed on the illegal minority regime in Southern Rhodesia;

Calls upon all States, specialized agencies and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to offer all possible assistance to the liberation movements of southern Africa that are recognized by the Organization of African Unity and the United Nations;

Invites the Economic and Social Council, in collaboration with the Commission on Human Rights, to examine the question of the consequences of the use of the veto by the above-mentioned three permanent members of the Security Council on the enjoyment of human rights by the oppressed peoples of southern Africa and to submit a report thereon to the General Assembly at its thirty-third session;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to give the Special Rapporteur the assistance he needs to complete his study;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit the preliminary report of the Special Rapporteur to the Special Committee against Apartheid and to the United Nations Council for Namibia;

Decides to consider this item at its thirty-third session as a matter of priority in the light of any recommendation by the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, the Commission on Human Rights and the Economic and Social Council, as well as by the Special Committee against Apartheid and the United Nations Council for Namibia.

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Adverse Consequences for the Enjoyment of Human Rights of Political, Military, Economic and Other Forms of Assistance Given to the Racist and Colonialist Régime in South Africa

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