Resolution on Zimbabwe

CM/Res. 696 (XXXII)

RESOLUTION ON ZIMBABWE

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 considered the statements of Member States and the Patriotic Front on the question of the Angola-American initiatives;

Having examined the reprehensible activities of Bishop Muzorewa, Reverend Sithole and Chief Chirau;

Strongly condemning the repeated aggression of the Rhodesian racists on the Frontline States of Angola Botswana, Mozambique and Zambia, and the bombings of refugee camps of the Patriotic Front in these countries-

1. HOLDS that the Anglo-American Proposals because of the vacillations of the governments of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America and the intransigence of the illegal regime of Ian smith have been overtaken by the qualitative development of the liberation war in Zimbabwe;

2. APPRECIATES and ENCOURAGES the progress in the armed liberation struggle being waged by the Patriotic Front, the sole and authentic liberation movement in Zimbabwe;

3. REAFFIRMS that the armed struggle being waged by the Patriotic Front must be intensified, and RESOLVES to increase political, material and financial assistance to the Patriotic Front to ensure the quick defeat of the illegal racist Minority regime of Rhodesia;

4. EXPRESSES its indignation at the conclusion between Bishop Muzorewa, Reverend Sithole and Chief Chirau; with the illegal regime which it considered as a betrayal of the people of Zimbabwe;