UN General Assembly
1974

24. The minority Government of Southern Rhodesia has also continued to consolidate its racist regime and to repress the liberation movements of its people by all inhuman and criminal means of collective punishment. It has denied the people of Zimbabwe the right to self-determination, freedom and independence, in defiance of all United Nations decisions. That illegal racist regime has sufficient moral and material backing from its major trading partners, who cooperate with and maintain it for their own selfish economic interests, thereby impeding the effective application of sanctions imposed by the Security Council against the regime. We are of the view that all Member countries should unite and consolidate their efforts to bring this deplorable situation to an end. We believe that the recently adopted International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid [resolution 3068 (XXVIII), annex] will be helpful in eliminating this form of racial discrimination and request all Member States to sign or accede to this Convention without delay.