S.A. RACE POLICY

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30405, 2 April 1964, Page 13

S.A. RACE POLICY

U.N. Moves Planned

(N.Z P.A.-Reuter—Copyright >

NEW YORK, March 31

Thirty-four African nations today decided to seek Asian support in bringing further pressure to bear on South Africa to abandon its policies of racial segregation. A meeting of the African group discussed the question of when next to bring the issue to the Security Council but took no final decision.

The African delegate said the timing of a Security Council meeting would depend on several factors. These included the report of a group of experts studying the racial situation which is due to be made to the council by June 1, a meeting in London in April on economic sanctions against the Republic, and South Africa’s latest announced increase in its defence budget. Mr Diallo Telli, of Guinea, who is chairman of the General Assembly's Special Committee on Apartheid, addressed the meeting on reports which the committee adopted last week. Mr Diallo told the Security Council by letter today that it was essential for it to take “positive and dynamic action” to prevent a violent conflict in South Africa.

In The Hague, 91 Dutch Parliamentarians and 200 other prominent Dutchmen have expressed their “concern” about South Africa's apartheid policy in a statement sent to Mr H. A. Rust, South Africa’s Ambassador to the Hague.

The statement calls on the South African Government to start discussions with “representative delegates of the non-white population, in order to find together a way out of the present situation, which is without perspective.”