UNITED NATIONS: SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT FOR "MASSIVE VIOLENCE" AGAINST AFRICAN PEOPLE.

Record ID: 1061988

  • Title: UNITED NATIONS: SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT FOR "MASSIVE VIOLENCE" AGAINST AFRICAN PEOPLE.
  • Date: 20th June 1976
  • Summary: 1. GV UN Security Council in session 0.16 2. SV Tanzanian delegate, Salim A. Salim, speaking 0.58 3. U.S. delegate, Albert W. Sherer, speaking 1.34 4. SV South African delegate, Roelof Botha, speaking 2.27 5. SV U.N. Security Council president announces resolution vote 2.38 6. TV U.N. Security Council in session 2.40 SALIM: "Mr. President, most of the recent incidents are not isolated ones. They indicate that the South African regime will go to any length out of cowardice and suppress innocent people. It is a regime that lives in fear because it knows that the injustice that it is committing will one day be crushed. From the viewpoint of the oppressed majority which has a manifestation of the continuing struggle against the apartheid system." SHERER: "We call on the government of the Republic of South Africa to take these events as a warning, and to learn from them. They must abandon the system which is clearly not acceptable under any standard of human rights. There can be no dream of the future for the nation of South Africa that does not include both white and black working together in harmony and equality. Together with other members of the Council, we want to ensure the dream will not become a nightmare such as that we have witnessed in recent days." BOTHA: "It is alleged that the present situation, I quote, is a serious danger to peace, and security (indistinct). The only danger to peace, I submit, is contained in the statement, statements of certain speakers in this debate. Irresponsible threats have been levelled at white countries but we will not be intimidated, nor will we be provoked. Let us not evade the basic issue. We all know what is at stake in southern Africa. On the one hand white nationalism and the various black nationalism, who no their own, have to find accommodation with one another, or continue on a course of confrontation, the consequences of which will be disastrous for all of us." PRESIDENT: "The president wishes to announce that the resolution has been adopted and to indicate that all 50 members participated in that consensus." The resolution "strongly condemns the South African government for its resort to massive violence against and the killings of African people." It re-affirmed that apartheid was a "crime against the conscience and dignity of mankind and seriously disturbs international peace and security". Initials CL/0005 TELERECORDING Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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