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General Assembly United Nations FOURTH COMMITTEE, 1373rd GENERAL MEETING ASSEMBLY Tuesday, 6 November 1962, at 10.55 a.m. SEVENTEENTH SESSION Official Records • NEW YORK CONTENTS 3, Mr. BOEG (Denmark) thought it would be wise for Page the Committee to take chapter IX of the report of the Special Committee established under General Assem­ Agenda item 57: bly resolution 1654 (XVI) into consideration during Question of South West Africa (continued): the debate on South West Africa, At the same time (~) Report of the United Nations Special Com­ there was a question of principle which should be mittee for South West Africa; borne in mind. The representative of Yugoslavia had (p) Special educational and training pro­ pointed out that the Fourth Committee would be faced grammes for South West Africa: report of with a similar problem with regard to chapters VIII the Secretary-General . 283 and XI of the report when it took up agenda item 54. Hearing of petitioners (continued). 283 The Danish delegation entirely agreed with the Yugo­ slav delegation that duplication of work should be avoided. There was too much overlapping and dupli­ Chairman: Mr. Guillermo FLORES AVENDANO cation in the field of work with which the Fourth (Guatemala). Committee was concerned; in fact, paragraph 152 of chapter I of the report in question touched on the matter and made certain suggestions. It might be AGENDA ITEM 57 well if there were further co-ordination of the work of the Fourth Committee with that of the plenary. Question of South West Africa (A/C.4/572) (continued): Thus if the Fourth Committee decided to consider (g) Report of the United Nations Special Committee for chapter IX of the report in connexion with the item on South West Africa, there would not be much point in South West Africa (A/5212 and Add.l-3); that particular chapter being considered also in (!!) Special educational and training programmes for South plenary session. He would therefore suggest that, if West Africa: report of the Secretary-General (A/5234 and the Committee agreed, the Chairman should take Add.l) up the matter with the President of the General Assembly. 1. Mr. COOMARASWAMY (Ceylon) referred to the suggestion made at the previous meeting by the 4. The CHAIRMAN said that if there were no objec­ representative of Yugoslavia to the effect that the tions the relevant chapter of the report (A/5238) of relevant chapter of the report (A/5238) of the Special the Special Committee established under General Committee on the Situation with regard to the Imple­ Assembly resolution 1654 (XVI) would be listed among the documents to be considered in connexion mentation of the Declaration on the Granting of In­ with the question of South West Africa. dependence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, estab­ lished under General Assembly resolution 1654 (XVI), It was so decided. should be taken into account during the Fourth Com­ mittee's debate on the question of South West Africa. HEARING OF PETITIONERS (continued) Since that Special Committee had simply endorsed At the invitation of the Chairman, the Reverend the conclusions and recommendations of the Special Michael Scott, representative of the Africa Bureau, Committee for South West Africa, he agreed with the Mr. Potlako K, Leballo, representative of the Pan­ representative of Yugoslavia that that should be done. Africanist Congress (PAC), Mr. Jariretundu 2. U TIN MAUNG (Burma) also supported the sug­ Kozonguizi, representative of the South West Africa gestion made by the representative of Yugoslavia. National Union (SWANU), Mr. Jacob Kuhangua, repre­ Chapter IX of document A/5238 gave an adequate sentative of the South West Africa Peoples Organi­ zation (SWAPO), the Reverend Markus Kooper, repre­ picture of the situation in the Territory and included statements by petitioners, communications from six sentative of the South West Africa United National Independence Organization (SWAUNIO), and Mr. petitioners and summaries of statements made by the Mburumba Kerina took places at the Committee members of the Committee explaining their Govern­ table. ments' views with regard to South West Africa. The majority of members of the Committee established 5. Mr. KOZONGUIZI (South West Africa National under General Assembly resolution 1654 (XVI) had Union) observed that it was now more than fifteen expressed the view that during the current year the years since the question of South West Africa had General Assembly should take firm action against come before the United Nations and more than forty the Republic of South Africa and that that action years since the Territory had changed hands from might include sanctions. It was true that the General German colonial rule to the so-called international Assembly was somewhat divided on the question of supervision which seemed to have helped to cloak sanctions, but the Fourth Committee should consider the oppressive administration of South Africa. Since all possible steps in conjunction with the previous the General Assembly had first taken up the question stands taken by the various delegations in the matter. very little progress seemed to have been made. 283 A/C.4/SR.1373 284 General Assembly - Seventeenth Session - Fourth Committee 6. The activities of the United Nations with respect 9. He had touched on the past history of the question to South West Africa could be divided into three to show that in spite of the discussions in the United parts. Firstly, there was the passage of resolutions, Nations, in spite of the petitions submitted, in spite which fell into four categories: declarations defining of repeated appeals from the United Nations, the the United Nations' position on South West Africa and South African Government had continued to implement condemning the South African administration; resolu­ the policy of apartheid in South West Africa and today tions requesting and appealing to the South African possessed military power and economic strength, authorities to do certain things and inviting the atten­ backed by strong financial interests and military ties tion of Member States to the situation in South West abroad. It claimed that its military preparations Africa; resolutions dealing with the appointment of were part of the defence of the so-called free world cdmmittees and commissions; and resolutions seek­ against Communism but in fact the arms and equip­ ing the opinions of the International Court of Justice. ment it had obtained from its friends abroad had Secondly, there were attempts by the United Nations been used to repress the struggling people of South to implement its resolutions: Committees had been and South West Africa. appointed, re-appointed, dissolved, others appointed and so forth. Thirdly, the United Nations had suc­ 10. Much had been said about the joint communiqu~ ceeded in informing world opinion of the conditions issued at Pretoria, which had denied the existence of in South West Africa. any evidence of military preparation in South West Africa. The members of SW ANU knew very well that 7. The resolutions of 1946 and 1947 had been com­ that communique was not in accordance with the pletely ignored by the South African Government, and facts. In any event, when the Chairman of the Special the 1950 advisory opinion of the International Court Committee had reached Cairo he had rejected any of Justice!/ had been rejected and its endorsement knowledge of or association with the joint com­ by the United Nations defied. South Africa had re­ munique. What was more important was the com­ fused to submit any reports on the Territory or munique's irrelevance to the issues at stake and its petitions from South West Africans, as it was re­ calculated omission of the facts. It had said nothing quired to do under the terms of the Mandate. The of apartheid, the extent of its effects on the African United Nations Good Offices Committee established population and ultimately on the country itself and in 1957 had accomplished nothing. Nevertheless, a had expressed no opinion on the denial of political fairly accurate picture of conditions in the Territory rights and the exploitation of the majority of the had been obtained thanks to the work of the United inhabitants. Those were the issues that formed the Nations Committee on South West Africa under the basis of SWANU's case against the South African chairmanship of Mr. Rodrfguez Fabre gat. The only Administration. With regard to the points mentioned response from the South African Government had in the communique, it could not have been expected, been violent attacks on the characters of the peti­ in the circumstances in which the visit had taken tioners by Mr. Louw, the South African Minister for place, that there would be any overt incidents to Foreign Affairs, and a report to the Fourth Com­ demonstrate that the situation was a threat to peace mittee at the fourteenth session by Mr. van der Wath, and security. Incidents of that kind usually took place the present Deputy Minister for South West African as a result of provocation by South African officials Affairs, giving an account of the number of bore­ and at the time of the visit those officials had been holes dug and windmills erected in the reservee. under strict orders to exercise discretion. For In 1961 the Committee on South West Africa had example, white policemen, who were usually armed, attempted to reach the Territory. Mr. Louw had had not even carried batons during the visit. Afri­ made it clear that any attempt to enter the Territory cans had been free to demonstrate and even to enter would be regarded as aggression and had implied the Grand Hotel at Windhoek, usually reserved for that it might be repelled by force. The report con­ Whites, to see the United Nations visitors.
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