Resolution on the Oil Embargo Against Southern Africa

CM/Res. 731 (XXXIII) Rev. 1

RESOLUTION OF THE OIL EMBARGO AGAINST SOUTHERN AFRICA

The Council of Ministers of the organization of African Unity meeting in its Thirty- third Ordinary Session in Monrovia, Liberia, from 6 to 20 July 1979;

Having examined the informative reports submitted by the Secretary-General and the OAU Sanctions Committee against the Racist minority regimes of Southern Africa;

Mindful of the fact that South Africa and Rhodesia’s economic structure as well as the machines of repression and aggression of these facist regimes are mainly dependent on the continued supply of oil;

Highly appreciative of the position of the OPEC member countries not to supply oil to the apartheid and the racist minority Rhodesia regimes;

Encouraged by the Historic decision taken by the new government of Iran to terminate all supplies to South Africa;

Mindful of the negative role played by some oil companies which engage in secret arrangements to supply South Africa without the knowledge and approval of the oil exporting countries;

Convinced of the urgent and imperative need to consult with all oil-exporting countries with the view to develop with them such concrete measures to monitor the activities of the oil companies doing business with them, in order to impose individual and collective penalties on those companies that violate the embargo and supply oil to South Africa;

1. WELCOMES the proposals for methods of monitoring and cutting down the shipment of oil to South Africa as contained in the report of the Secretary-General and entitle “Implementation of an Effective Oil Embargo Against South Africa”;

2. REQUESTS all oil-exporting countries to intensify efforts to monitor the final destination of their oil and to make all necessary action to prevent it from being delivered to South Africa and to penalise the oil companies of such operations;