Resolution on the Initiatives envisaged within the United Kingdom Conservative Party Parliamentarians to send teams to observe the so-called election in Southern Rhodesia

CM/Res. 692 (XXXII)

RESOLUTION ON THE INITIATIVES ENVISAGED WITHIN THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS AND MOVES MADE BY THE UNITED KINGDOM CONSERVATIVE PARTY PARLIAMENTARIANS TO SEND TEAMS TO OBSERVE THE SO-CALLED ELECTIONS IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA

The Council of Minister of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its Thirty- Second Ordinary Session in Nairobi, Republic of Kenya, from 23 February to 4 March, 1979,

Having received information according to which initiatives were taken within the US Congress and the UK conservative Party to send teams to observe the proposed so-called elections in Southern Rhodesia,

Considering that the OAU, the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly have condemned and rejected the so-called internal settlement which is the basis for these bogus elections,

Further Considering that the United Nations Security Council has determined that the rebel Rhodesia Government is illegal under international law,

Convinced that the proposed elections are blatant attempt to confer legitimacy to the illegal regime of Ian Smith and the so-called internal settlement:

1. CONDEMNS the initiatives taken within the United States Congress and the moves made by the United Kingdom Conservative Party to send observers to the so-called elections in Southern Rhodesia;

2. DRAWS the particular attention of the United Kingdom – the Administering Power to the grave consequences of the decision taken by one of the parties of its Parliament to send observers to the so-called elections in Southern Rhodesia;

3. DEMANDS that the US Government do all in its power to ensure that its Congress or any of its citizens are not sent to observe the forthcoming so-called elections in Southern Rhodesia;