Question of Southern Rhodesia

A/RES/31/154[A]View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 86 Question of Southern Rhodesia, published in 1977.

What else is in this group?

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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14 subjects

Aggression Conferences Independence Information Dissemination Massacres Mercenaries National Liberation Movements Political Prisoners Self-Determination of Peoples Southern Rhodesia Summary Executions Travel Restrictions United Kingdom Zimbabwe

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13 operative paragraphs

A/RES/31/154 [A]

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Reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of Zimbabwe to self-determination, freedom and independence and the legitimacy of their struggle to secure by all the means at their disposal the enjoyment of that right as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations and in conformity with the objectives of General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV);

Reaffirms the principle that there should be no independence before majority rule in Zimbabwe and that any settlement relating to the future of the Territory must be worked out with the full participation of the people of Zimbabwe and in accordance with their true aspirations;

Strongly condemns the illegal racist minority regime for its continued brutal and repressive measures perpetrated against the people of Zimbabwe and in particular the wanton killings of Africans carried out by the regime within and outside Zimbabwe;

Further strongly condemns the illegal racist minority regime for its systematic acts of aggression against neighbouring African States;

Calls upon the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in the discharge of its primary responsibility as the administering Power, to take all effective measures to enable Zimbabwe to accede to independence in accordance with the aspirations of the majority of the population and not under any circumstances to accord to the illegal regime any of the powers or attributes of sovereignty;

105 Ibid., chap. VIII, annex, para. 44.

106 Ibid., Thirtieth Session, Supplement No. 23 (A/10023/ Rev.1), chap. IX, annex, para. 99.

101 See A/31/197, annex I.

Commends to the administering Power for appropriate action the relevant sections of the report of the Ad Hoe Group established by the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples at its 1029th meeting, on 1 April 1976;10• 7.

Firmly supports the people of Zimbabwe in their struggle to achieve majority rule;

Demands:

The termination forthwith of the executions of freedom fighters being carried out by the illegal Smith regime;

( b) The unconditional and immediate release of all political prisoners, detainees and restrictees, the removal of all restrictions on political activity and the establishment of full democratic freedom and equality of political rights, as well as the restoration to the population of fundamental human rights;

( c) The discontinuance forthwith of all repressive measures, in particular the brutality committed in the "operational area", the arbitrary closure of African areas, the eviction, transfer and resettlement of Africans and the creation of so-called protected villages, and the persecution of Christian missionaries supporting the cause of the liberation of Zimbabwe;

The cessation of the influx of foreign immigrants into the Territory and the immediate withdrawal of all mercenaries therefrom;

Calls upon all States to take all necessary and effective measures to prevent advertisement for, and recruitment of, mercenaries for Southern Rhodesia;

Requests all States, directly and through their action in the specialized agencies and other organizations within the United Nations system of which they are members, as well as the non-governmental organizations concerned and the various programmes within the United Nations system, to extend, in consultation and co-operation with the Organization of African Unity, to the people of Zimbabwe and their national liberation movement all the moral, material, political and humanitarian assistance necessary in their struggle for the restoration of their inalienable rights;

Invites all Governments, the specialized agencies and other organizations within the United Nations system, the United Nations bodies concerned and nongovernmental organizations having a special interest in the field of decolonization, as well as the Secretary- General, to take steps, as appropriate, to give widespread and continuous publicity through all the media at their disposal to information on the situation in Zimbabwe and on the relevant decisions and actions of the United Nations, with particular reference to the application of sanctions against the illegal regime;

Expresses the hope that the conference on Zimbabwe at Geneva will succeed in establishinu the conditions for early independence on the basis of majority rule, in accordance with the relevant resolutions adopted by the United Nations;

13 .. Requ_ests t~e ~overnment of the United Kingdom, m keepmg with its express readiness to do so to co-operate with the Special Committee in the disch~rge of the mandate entrusted to the latter by the General A~sembly, and to report there?n to the Special Committee and to the Assembly at its thirty-second session; General Assembl,.--Thirty-6.rst Session

Requests the Special Committee to keep the situation in the Territory under review as a matter of priority and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its thirty-second session.

108 See Official Records of the Security Council, Thirty-first Year, Supplement for January, February and March 1976, documents S/ 12004 and Adel. I.

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