Question of Southern Rhodesia

A/RES/2652(XXV)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1971.

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36 documents · 1963–1980

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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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Intervention Military Assistance Permanent Sovereignty Political Prisoners Portugal Sanctions South Africa Southern Rhodesia Southern Rhodesia Question Zimbabwe

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

Declares illegal all measures taken by the racist minority regime, including the purported assumption of republican status, to deprive the people of Zimbabwe of their legitimate rigl.ts and to entrench its policies of apartheid in Southern Rhodesia;

Affirms that any attempt to negotiate the future of Zimbabwe with the illegal racist minority regime would be contrary to the provisions of resolution 1514 (XV);

Condemns the failure and refusal of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to take effective measures to bring down the illegal racist minority regime in Southern Rhodesia and to transfer power to the people of Zimbabwe on the basis of majority rule, in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, and calls upon that Government to take such measures without further delay in fulfilment of its responsibility as the administering Power;

Condemns the intervention of South African armed forces in Southern Rhodesia in violation of Security Counoil resolution 277 (1970);

Condemns the policies of the Governments of South Africa and Portugal and other Governments that continue to maintain political, economic, military and other relations with the illegal racist minority regime in Southern Rhodesia in contravention of the relevant United Nations resolutions, thus violatin$ their obligations under the Charter of the United Nations, and calls upon those Governments to discontinue all such relations;

Deplores the· failure of the Government of the United Kingdom to report to the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, as requested in paragraph 16 of General Assembly resolution 2508

(XXIV) of 21 November 1969, on action taken in the implementation of that resolution, and calls upon the Government of the United Kingdom to submit the said report to the Special Committee during its next session;

Calls upon the United Kingdom, as the administering Power, to ensure the immediate expulsion of all South African forces from Southern Rhodesia;

Calls upon all States to ensure, under the terms of Security Council resolution 277 (1970), the immediate interruption of any existing means of transportation to and from Southern Rhodesia;

Calls upon all States, specialized agencies and other international organiz.ations concerned, in cooperation with the Organiz.ation of African Unity, to extend all moral and material assistance to the national liberation movements of Zimbabwe;

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 War8 and the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War,' 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 the armed attacks perpetrated against neighbouring States in violation of international peace and security;

Further draws the attention of the Security Council to the urgent necessity of applying the following measures envisaged under Chapter VII of the Charter:

Widening the scope of the sanctions against the illegal racist minority regune to include all the measures laid down in Article 41 of the Charter;

( b) Imposing sanctions against South Africa and Portugal, whose Governments have blatantly refused to carry out the mandatory decisions of the Security Council;

Requests the Special Committee to keep the situation in the Territory under review.

3 December 1970.

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