Apartheid Counter Committee Wants Sanctions

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30630, 22 December 1964, Page 24

Apartheid Counter Committee Wants Sanctions

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright)

NEW YORK, Dec. 21

The United Nations Special Committee on South African Apartheid recommended on Saturday that the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council impose “total economic sanctions against the Republic of South Africa,” the Associated Press reported. In a report to both bodies, the committee said such penalties should remain in effect “until the South African Government agrees to comply with its obligations under the charter.”

The 227-page report recalled that the council on August 7, 1963, said South Africa’s “Perpetuation of racial discrimination” was contrary to those obligations and asked her to stop it. The report, was adopted unanimously on November 30 when some of its provisions were made public. “The Special committee,” it said “recommends that the General Assembly should, at the earliest practicable date, record the conviction of the large majority of member states that the situation in ...

South Africa constitutes a serious threat to peace, thus calling for mandatory measures provided for in . . . the charter and invite the security Council to take necessary action without delay to resolve the situation.”