Council Meets to Consider Relationship Between UN and South Africa

The Security Council this afternoon began consideration of the relationship between the United Nations and South Africa. On 30 September, the General Assembly adopted a resolution calling on the Council to review that relationship"" in the light of the constant violation by South Africa of the principles of the Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights"". Statements in the debate on this question were made this afternoon by Omar Arteh Chalib, Foreign Minister of Somalia; by Desmond Luke, Foreign Minister of Sierra Leone; and by Rachid Driss (Tunisia), representing the African Group at the United Nations. The Council agreed without objection to a request by Mauritania that the Council give a hearing to David Sibeko, member of the Executive Committee of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, under rule 39 of the Council's rules of procedure.
A general view of the meeting.