Security Council Resolution 283 (1970) [Requesting All States to Refrain From Any Relations with South Africa Implying Recognition of South African Authority over Namibia]

S/RES/283(1970)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Security Council, published in 1971.

What subjects does this mandate have?

13 subjects

Diplomatic Relations Economic Assistance Emigration Funds Namibia Namibia Question Namibians Passports Sanctions South Africa Tourism Treaties Visas

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17 operative paragraphs

Requests all States to refrain from any relations ~iplomatic, consular or otherwisc--with South Africa implying recognition of the authority of the Government of South Africa over the Territory of Namibia;

Calls upon all States maintaining diplomatic or consular relations with South Africa to issue a formal declaration to the Government of South Africa to the effect that they do not recognize any authority of South Africa with regard to Namibia and that they consider South Africa's continued presence in Namibia illegal;

Calls upon all States maintaining such relations to terminate existing diplomatic and consular representation as far as they extend to Namibia, and to withdraw any diplomatic or consular mission or representative residing in the Territory;

Calls upon all States to ensure that companies and other commercial and industrial enterpme1 owned by, or under direct control of, the State cease all dealings with respect to commercial or industrial enterprises or conce11ions in Namibia;

Call., upnn all States to withhold from their nationals or companies of their nationality not under direct governmental control, government loans, credit guarantees and other forms of financial support that would be used to facilitate trade or commerce with Namibia;

Calls upon all States to en.aure that companies and other commercial enterprises owned by, or under direct control of, the State cease all further investment activities, Including conce11ion1 in Namibia;

1 /hid., document S/9863.

Calu upun all States to discourage their nati~nals or companit;S o{ their nationality not under direct government.al controi from investing or obtain~g conceHiona :n Namibia, and to this end to w1thho]d protection of sl.ch investment against cl.aims of a future lawful government of Namibia;

Request.s all States to undertake without delay a detailed study and review of all bilateral treaties between themselves and South Africa in so far as these treaties contain provisions by which they apply to the Territory of Namibia;

Requests the Secretary-General to undertake without delay a detailed study and review of all multilateral treaties to which South Africa is a party and which, either by direct reference or on the basis of relevant provisions of international law, might be considered to apply to the Territory of Namibia;

Requests the United Nations Council for Namibia to make available to the Security Council the results of its study and proposals with regard to the issuance of passports and visas for Namibians, and to undertake a study and make proposals with regard to special passport and visa regulations to be adopted by States concerning travel of their citizens to Namibia;

Cal/3 upon all States to discourage the promotion of tourism and emigration to Namibia;

Requests the General Assembly, at its twentyfifth session, to set up a United Nations fund for Namibia to provide assistance to Namibians who have suffered from persecution and to finance a comprehensive educational and training programme for Namibians, with particular regard to their future administrative responsibilities in the Territory;

Requests all States to report to the Secretary- General on measures they have taken in order to give effect to the provisions set forth in the present resolution;

Decides to re-establish, in accordance with rule 28 of its provisional rules of procedure, the Ad Hoe Sub-Committee on Namibia and to request the Sub- Committee to study further effective recommendations on ways and means by which the relevant resolutions of the Council can be effectively implement, d in accordance with the appropriate provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, in the light of the flagrant refusal of South Africa to withdraw from Namibia;

Requests the Sub-Committee to study the replies 11ubmitted by Governments to the Secretary-General in pursuance of paragraph 13 of the present resolution and to report to the Council as appropriate;

Requests the Secretary-General to give every assistance to the Sub-Committee in the performance of its tasks;

Decides to remain active1y seized of this matter.

Adopttd at the 1550th muting by 13 votu to rwne,

with 2 abslt'ntions (Franu,

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland).

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In connexion with the implementation of the above resolution, the President of the Security Council announced, in a note circulated as a Security Council document, the following measures which had been approved by the Council:

On 18 August 1970, the President issued a note9 stating that, after consultations Mnung the members of the Council, it had been agreed that the Ad Hoe Sub-Committee on Namibia re-established in pursuance of Security Council resoiution 283 (1970)

would be composed of all the members of the Council and would work under the same procedures as those followed by the Ad Hoe Sub-Committee established in pursuance of Security Council resolution 276 ( 1970).

ing by 12 votes to none,

with 3 abstentions ( Poland,

SIR697/Add.l of 27 January 1969: see Of!icia/ Records of the S11pfltment for January, February and March 1969. fifrh Y tar, Supplt'mtnt for July, August and Septt'mber 1970,

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