Resolution on World Conference for Action Against Apartheid

CM/Res. 552(XXIX)

RESOLUTION ON WORLD CONFERENCE FOR ACTION AGAINST APARTHEID

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity meeting in its Twenty - Ninth Ordinary Session in Libreville, Gabon, from 23^rd June to 3 July, 1977

Conscious of the urgent need to promote the widest and most effective international action, by Governments and organizations, in support of the liberation struggle in Southern Africa,

Welcoming the decision of the United Nations General Assembly, in its resolution 31/6 of 9 November 1976, authorizing the Special Committee against Apartheid to organize a World Conference for Action Against Apartheid in 1977 in co -operation with the Organization of African Unity, the South African liberation movements, the NGG Sub -Committee on Colonialism, Racism and Apartheid, and other appropriate bodies,

Noting with great appreciation that the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has agreed to host the World Conference for Action Against Apartheid in August 1877,

Anxious to ensure the success of the Conference and to enable it to attain its main objective of mobilising maximum world opinion for the Liberation struggle,

1. INVITES all Member States to participate at a high level in that Conference and encourages the participation of other Liberation Movements recognized by the OAU and non-governmental leaders of African organizations,

2. REQUESTS the Administrative Secretary-General to co-operate actively with the Federal Government of Nigeria and the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid for the organization of the said Conference.