Delegates walk out

Press, 28 August 1978, Page 8

Delegates walk out

NZPA-Reuter Geneva' Despite a walkout by sev-i eral Western nations, a| United Nations anti-racism , conference has ended with a declaration accusing Israel of increasing economic and military links with South Africa. Part of the 26-point declaration condemned what it called the developing relations between South Africa and Israel, and warned against nuclear co-operation between the two countries. Another paragraph des-! cribed the Palestinians as! victims of racial dis- j crimination. I The nine E.E.C. countries, | 'as well as Australia, Canada, and New Zealand left the committee which passed the, draft resolution, and said! they would take no further part in the 122-nation con- i * ference. The United States and Israel have not attended the! ; conference, which was also j

boycotted by South Africa,! in protest against a 1975 United Nations General Assembly resolution equating racism with Zionism. The conference, in a final plenary session which began late bn Friday night, said the United Nations Security Council should consider imposing mandatory economic .sanctions, including an oil embargo, against South Africa, as one of the international measures against apartheid. The declaration, widely approved by delegates attending the full session, called on countries to refrain from relations with the independent homelands, or bantustans, set up in South Africa. It said measures should be taken to prevent the recuit-; ment and training of mer-l cenaries to help racist re-1 gimes in southern Africa,, and trans-national. corporat- ‘ ions should be prevented from collaborating with' those countries. |