Question of Southern Rhodesia

A/RES/2508(XXIV)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1970.

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36 documents · 1963–1980

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 1980).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1980	A/RES/34/192	Question of Southern Rhodesia	1,049	–
1979	A/RES/33/38[B]	Question of Southern Rhodesia	—	–
1979	A/RES/33/38A-B	Question of Southern Rhodesia resolutions	—	–
1979	A/RES/33/38[A]	Question of Southern Rhodesia	—	–
1978	A/RES/32/116[B]	Question of Southern Rhodesia	—	–

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What subjects does this mandate have?

13 subjects

Aggression Detention Emigration Humanitarian Assistance Military Assistance National Liberation Movements Permanent Sovereignty Portugal Sanctions South Africa Southern Rhodesia Southern Rhodesia Question Zimbabwe

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16 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of Zimbabwe to freedom and independence and the legitimacy of their struggle to attain that right in conformity with the provisions of General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV);

Declares illegal all measures taken by the racist minority régime to deprive the people of Zimbabwe of their legitimate rights and to entrench its policies of apartheid in Southem Rhodesia;

Condemns the failure and refusal of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as the administering Power, to take effective measures to bring down the illegal racist minority régime in Southern Rhodesia and to transfer power to the people of Zimbabwe on the basis of majority rule in accordance with all the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly;

4 /~id., Twenty-fourth Session, Fourth Committee, 1822nd meetmg.

Condemns the intervention of South African armed forces in Southem Rhodesia, which constitutes an act of aggression against the people and territorial integrity of Zimbabwe, and calls upan the United Kingdom, as the administering Power, to ensure the immediate expulsion of all South African forces from Southem Rhodesia;

Condemns the policies of the Governments of South Africa and Portugal and other Govemments which continue to have political, economic, military and other relations with the illegal racist minority régime in Southern Rhodesia in contravention of the relevant United Nations resolutions, thereby violating their obligations under the Charter of the United Nations;

Condemns the policies of those Statcs which make it possible far their nationals to emigrate to Southern Rhodesia in violation of Security Council resolution 253 (1968);

Calls upon the Government of the United Kingdom, in fulfilment of its responsibility as the administering Power, to take effective measures. including the use of force, to put an immediate end to the illegal racist minority régime in Southern Rhodesia and to transfer all powers to the people of Zimbabwe on the basis of majority rule;

Calls upon the administering Power to ensure the immediate release of the African nationalists who are in detention and to prevent further assassination and imprisonment of African nationalists in Southem Rhodesia;

Calls upon all States which continue to maintain political, economic, military and othcr relations with the illegal racist minority régime in Southern Rhodesia to bring them to an immediate end;

Calls upon all States, specialized agencies and other international organizations concerned to extend ali moral and material assistance to the national liberation movements of Zimbabwe, in co-operation with the Organization of African Unity;

Calls upon the Government of the United Kingdom, in view of the armed conflict in the Territory and the inhuman treatment of prisoners, to ensure the application to that situation of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War11 and of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War,6 both dated 12 August 1949;

Draws the attention of the Security Council to the gravity of the situation arising from the intensification of suppressive activities against the people of Zimbabwe and from armed attacks perpetrated against neighbouring States in violation of intemational peace and security;

Reaf]irms its conviction that the sanctions will ~ot put an end to _the illegal racist minority régime m Southern Rhodes1a unless they are comprehensive, mandatory, effectively supervised, enforced and complied with, particularly by South Africa and Portugal;

14 .. Further draws the at~ention of the Security Co~ncil to the urge!}t necess1ty of applying the followmg measures env1saged under Chapter VII of the Charter:

6 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75 (1950), No. 972.

6 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75 (1950), No. 973.

The scope of the sanctions against the illegal racist minority régime should be widened to include a1l the measures laid down in Article 41 of the Charter;

( b) Sanctions should be imposed on South Africa and Portugal, the Governments of which have blatantly refused to carry out the mandatory decisions of the Security Council;

Requests the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of lndependence to Colonial Countries and Peoples to keep the situation in the Territory under review;

Calls upon the administering Power to report to the Special Committee on its action in the implementation of the present resolution.

21 November 1969.

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