Apartheid Condemned
Z P.A. -Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK, October 22.
The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid yesterday recommended “urgent and decisive” United Nations action against South Africa’s policy of racial discrimination.
The committee declared that a grave threat to peace had developed in southern Africa and that South Africa bad become “the bastion of colonialism and racialism in the whole area, and the principal threat to peace and to the authority of the United Nations.”
It warned that urgent and decisive United Nations action was imperative to avert "the incalculable consequences of a major conflict In the area.”
The committee added that South Africa was engaged In a massive military build-up with the help of other countries, particularly France, and called on the Security Council to consider urgently the implementation of a full arms embargo against her.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32126, 23 October 1969, Page 15
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