UN General Assembly
1987

We wish, therefore, to reiterate what has been stated before; In the context of the southern African situation, comprehensive and mandatory sanctions remain the only peaceful way - I might add, comparatively speaking - to end apartheid. Lest it be forgotten, I point out that the world has been warned by the Organization of African Unity and other bodies that failure by the international community to resolve this issue peacefully will result in unimaginable bloodshed and destruction. South Africa's bogus attempt at reform cannot be tolerated, because, as the farce of a tricameral parliament has shown, apartheid cannot be reformed. Furthermore as the impudence of the May 1986 whites-only elections loudly proclaimed, the racist regime is neither serious nor willing to negotiate the dismantling of apartheid. It is against that background that we should like to repeat our endless appeals to the major Western countries which have sufficient leverage over the racist regime to join the campaign for comprehensive and mandatory sanctions against the apartheid regime.