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The North American Regional Conference against Apartheid, organised by the Special

Committee against Apartheid, held a four-day Conference to review the situation in South

Africa and in southern Africa as a whole, in relation to the policies and actions of the United

States and Canada. United Nations, New York,18 June 1984.

At the presiding table are (from left) Sam Nujoma, President of South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), Minister Emeka Omeruah of Nigeria; Senator Edward Kennedy; Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar; Joseph Garba (Nigeria), Chairman of Anti-Apartheid Committee; Daniel Lisulo, Chairman of Political and Legal Committee of Zambia; Reverend Jesse Jackson; and Shridath Ramphal, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth.

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UN Secretary General Meets Ministers of Foreign Affairs from southern Africa, United Nations,

New York, 09 October 1996.

UN Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, with Ministers of Foreign Affairs from Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Press Conference by Chairman Of Special Committee Against Apartheid United Nations,

New York, 21 March 1983.

Yuseff Maitama-Sule (Nigeria), center, Chairman of the Special Committee against Apartheid. Bernard Harleston (left), President of the City College of the City University of New York, announced that City College will award an honorary Doctor of Laws degree to Nelson Mandela. James V. Gbeho (Ghana), right, is a Special Committee Vice-Chairman.

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Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe of the Patriotic Front of Zimbabwe at the World Conference for Action Against Apartheid, Lagos, 22 August 1977.

Sam Nujoma (left), President of the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), and Theo-Ben Guribab, Representative of SWAPO in New York at the World Conference for Action Against Apartheid, Lagos, 22 August 1977.

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UN Secretary-General Javier Perez De Cuellar meets with Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela. On the left is New York City Mayor David Dinkins, New York, 22 June 1990.

Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress arrives at the United Nations to address the Special Committee Against Apartheid in the General Assembly, United Nations, New York, 22 June 1990.

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Nelson Mandela Facilitator of the Burundi Peace Process visits UN Headquarters to brief the Security Council on the situation in Burundi. Also present are Council President Moctar Ouane, Mali (left) and Dumisani Kumalo (right), Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations. New York, 29 September 2000.

What we have observed, over the four days of voting from 26 to 29 April 1994, has been a great achievement for South Africa: a people who have, in the past, been systematically separated came together in a historic national expression of their determination to create a peaceful, non-racial and democratic South Africa.

Final Report of the UN Secretary General on the question of South Africa, 16 June 1994