CM/Res. 698 (XXXII)
RESOLUTION ON SOUTH AFRICA
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 discussed the situation in South Africa;
Having adopted the Report of the Thirty-Second Ordinary Session of the OAU Co- ordinating Committee for the Liberation of Africa (Doc. CM/964 (XXXII));
Having listed to the statements made by the two National Liberation Movements concerned and recognized by the OAU;
Deeply concerned with the oppressive measures still being practiced by the racist Pretoria regime and the assistance it received form its collaborators;
Conscious of the need for the effective function of the offices of the National Liberation Movements in New York;
Recalling previous OAU and UNO resolutions on the question of South Africa;
Concerned with the apparent lack of progress towards unity between the National Liberation Movements of South Africa:
NOTES with appreciation that not a single country outside apartheid South Africa has granted recognition to the Bantustans of the Transkei and Bophutatswana;
APPEALS to all peace and justice loving countries not to grant visas or allow into their territories by representatives of the South African Bantustans;
FURTHER APPEALS to the international community not to allow any kind of investment or aid or assistance through state organs, private firms or individuals to these Bantustans;
APPEALS to the UN General Assembly to further concretise its resolution of 1976 declaring that the people of South Africa and the Liberation Movements are a special responsibility of the world body by granting financial assistance for the maintenance of the offices in New York of the National Liberation Movements recognized by the OAU (The African National Congress of South Africa and the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania) without prejudice to the need for unity among the two Liberation Movements;
CALLS on OAU Member States to observe the 20th Anniversary of the founding of the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania on April 6, 1979;
STRONGLY CONDEMNS the violation by Western Countries of the UN Security Council resolution calling for an embargo on the sale of arms to racist South Africa and recommends that the Security Council takes effective measures to ensure that the arms embargo is comprehensive and complete;
CALLS once again on the two Liberation Movements to study seriously the question of unity amongst themselves and to take concrete measures to that end;
REQUESTS the sub-Committee of Reconciliation of Liberation Movements of South Africa (Angola, Egypt, Kenya, Libya, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia) to continue with ‘tis task in reconciling the Liberation Movements of So uth Africa and submit a report on the question to the Thirty0Third Ordinary Session of the Liberation Committee.