AFRICAN STATES
Diplomatic Break With SA. Urged
ACCRA, April 10.
Independent African States were urged today to consider severing diplomatic relations with South Africa, and the British Commonwealth was urged to expel South Africa.
Resolutions to these effects were among several approved unanimously at today’s closing session of the three-day “positive action” conference for peace and security in Africa.
Another resolution urged independent African States to consider economic sanctions against South Africa and all African peoples to consider boycotting South African goods. Another recommended that independent African States give money to help the victims of racial repression in South Africa and provide other means of helping to counteract the effects of apartheid. Countries represented at the conference either by official Government delegations or by delegates from political and labour movements were Ghana, Liberia, Guinea. Nigeria, French Togoland, Kenya, Zanzibar, the Southern Cameroons, Sierra Leone, the Sudan, Egypt. Ethiopia, Libya, Morocco, Somaliland, Southern Rhodesia, Tanganyika, Gambia, Basutoland, and South-west Africa.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29178, 12 April 1960, Page 19
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