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Title items-in-Africa - Question of Namibia - UN organs and sponsored activities - United Nations Council for Namibia - press releases

Date Created 20/03/1972

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Container s-0902-0008: Peacekeeping - Africa 1963-1981

Print Name of Person Submit Image Signature of Person Submit Department of Public Information —— Press Section PreSS Release United Nations, New York

Background Release NAM/510 23 May 1980

COUNCIL FOR NAMIBIA TO MEET IN ALGIERS, 28 MAY - 1 JUNE

To Examine Situation in Namibia and Implementation of Natural Resources Decree

The United Nations Council for Namibia opens a five-day series of extraordinary plenary meetings in Algiers on Wednesday, 28 May. The Council-will consider the present situation in Namibia as well as the implementation of its Decree No; 1 for the Protection of the Natural Resources of Namibia, adopted on 27 December 1974.

The 31-nation Council is expec'ted to approve a formal declaration on Sunday, .1 June, the scheduled close of the Algiers meetings, which arc being held ir. accordance with a resolution adopted by the General Assembly last year.

In that resolution, the Assembly requested the Council, in implementation of its responsibilities as the legal administering authority for Namibia, to hold a series of meetings in Africa in 1980 at the highest possible level, as and when required for the proper discharge of its functions (resolution 34/92 A of 12 December 1979). This year, the Council has sent or plans to send 3 total of six missions of consultation to the Caribbean region, Latin America, North America, Western Europe, the Pacific region and the Middle East "to review the question of Namibia in the light of South Africa's refusal to comply with the resolutions of the Unitea Nations on Namibia".

The President of , Chad! i Bencjedid, has been invited to address the opening mert ing in Algiers.

The President of the thirty-fourth session of the General Assembly, Salim A. Salim (United Republic of ), has also been invited to speak.

Issoufou S. Djcrmal'oyc, Unaer-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Trusteeship and Decolonization, will attend the session on behalf of Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and will deliver a message.

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NAM/503 12 May 1980

COUNCIL FOR NAMIBIA MISSION ISSUES COMMUNIQUE AFTliA • CONSULTATIONS WITH NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT

" *•*,-•. (Received from a United Nations official accompanying the Mission of Consultation of th'e/United Nations Council for Namibia in New Zealand.)

The Mission of Consultation of the United Nations Council for Namibia, visiting Wellington from 7 to 9 May, completed consultations w ith the Government of New Zealand; ,

The Mission was received by and held consultations w.ith.D.S. Thompson, Minister of State and'Leader of the House of Representatives, .and by F.H. Corner, Secretaryof Foreign Affairs, accompan ied by other officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

After consultations with the Government of New Zealand, the Mission issued a communique. The text follows:

1. With the agreement of the Government of New Zealand, a Mission of Consultations of the United Nations Council for Namib ia visited Wellington from 7 to 9 May. , - -» . . .

2. The Mission was led by, Orhan Eralp, Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations and included the following members: Abdelharaid Setnichi (Algeria), Louis Fobe (Belgium), Vijay K. Namb iar (India), jEnr ique Buj-Flores (Mexico), Cher if B. Djigo (Senegal) and Mose Tjitendero (South West Africa People's Organizati