UN General Assembly
1953

92. The second item, concerning apartheid, only came up last year. It was then discussed during eight, days and a resolution [616 (VII)] was adopted. A commission was established to study the racial situation. 93. The reports of that commission and of the commission set up in connexion with the question of the treatment of people of Indian origin in the Union of South Africa [resolution 615 (VII)] can be expected to be negative. Many distinguished representatives have sat on these commissions, anxious to bring about satisfactory solutions. The representative of the Union of South Africa has always warned the Assembly that its intervention is unconstitutional and its resolutions, therefore, null and void. That has been a clear attitude, and a frank warning has been given. Article 2, paragraph 7, of the Charter has been invoked, and we all know that it debars the United Nations from intervening in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any State.