Resolution on Angola’s Application for UN Membership

CM/RES 491 (XXVII)

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RESOLUTION ON ANGOLA’S APPLICATION FOR UNITED NATIONS MEMBERSHIP

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity meeting in its Twenty- Seventh Ordinary Session at Port Louis, Mauritius, from 24 June to 3^rd July, 1976.

Recalling resolution CM/454 (XXVI) urging all OAU Member States to do their utmost to ensure the admission of the People’s Republic of Angola to the United Nations and its Specialized Agencies,

Having noted with indignation the stand taken by the United States of America at the United Nations Security Council on the application submitted by the People’s Republic of Angola for admission to the United Nations;

Recalling the spirit of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as the inalienable Principle of Self-determination, equality and sovereignty of States;

Considering the right of all peoples to safeguard and consolidate their hard-won independence and sovereignty as well a their territorial integrity;

Considering paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article III of the O.A.U. Charter on the principles of equal sovereignty of all States and non interference in the internal affairs of other States;

Considering that the People’s Republic of Angola is a full member of the O.A.U. and has been accorded de jure recognition by more than two thirds of U.N. Member States;

Considering further that the veto of the United States of America against the admission of the People’s Republic of Angola to the United Nations constitutes a violation of the spi rit of the United Nations Charter and complete disregard for the principle of universality, thus constituting a challenge to all OAU Member States;