Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

34. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE THIRD COMMITTEE
28. Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 33/102 of 16 December 1978 on the report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and 34/26 of 15 November 1979 on the status of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, as well as its resolutions 3057 (XXVIII) of 2 November 1973 and 34/24 of 15 November 1979 on the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, Having considered the report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on its nineteenth and twentieth sessions,[1] submitted under article 9, paragraph 2, of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination[2]2, and the decisions contained therein, Mindful of the obligation of the States parties to comply fully with all the provisions of the Convention, Emphasizing the need for Member States to intensify, at the national and international levels, their struggle against acts or practices of racial discrimination and the vestiges or manifestations of racist ideologies wherever they exist,

1. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on its nineteenth and twentieth sessions;

2. Welcomes the interest shown by the Committee in further participation in the activities for implementation of the Programme for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination;

3. Welcomes also the continued co-operation of the Committee with the competent specialized agencies and other United Nations bodies, especially with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to secure the fullest possible implementation of article 7 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination;

4. Commends the Committee for continuing to focus its attention on the just cause of peoples struggling against colonialism, oppression and occupation wherever they exist, particularly in southern Africa, as is within its mandate;

5. Calls once again upon relevant United Nations bodies to supply the Committee with sufficient information on Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories and all other Territories to which General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960 applies to enable it to discharge fully its responsibilities under article 15 of the Convention;

6. Expresses its grave concern that some States parties to the Convention, for reasons beyond their control are being prevented from fulfilling their obligations under the Convention in parts of their respective territories, and in this respect supports the opinion expressed by the Committee regarding the persistence of this problem in the Syrian Arab Republic,[3] reiterates its endorsement of Committee decision 1 (XV) of 1 April 1977[4] and reaffirms its resolution 32/13 of 7 November 1977 as well as its resolutions 2784 (XXVI) of 6 December 1971 and 3266 (XXIX) of 10 December 1974, concerning the situation in the Golan Heights;

7. Invites the States parties to supply the Committee with all the requested information on their implementation of the principles and provisions of the Convention, including information on the demographic composition of their population and on their relations with the racist régimes in southern Africa, in order to enable the Committee to discharge fully its responsibilities;

8. Calls upon the States parties to observe fully the provisions of the Convention and other international instruments and agreements to which they are parties concerning the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, and to take effective measures for securing full equality and promotion and protection of the rights of every person, group of persons or national or ethnic minority, as well as full protection of the rights of migrant workers, by preventing all practices of racial discrimination;

9. Urges all States which are not parties to the Convention to ratify or to accede to it and, pending such ratification or accession, to be guided by the basic provisions of the Convention in their internal and foreign policies;

10. Notes with due attention Committee decision 1 (XX) of 13 August 1979[5] concerning the future meetings of the Committee and requests the Secretary-General in this connexion to explore the possibility of providing necessary assistance for the holding of such meetings in developing countries and to submit a report in this regard to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session.

69th plenary meeting
15 November 1979

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[1] Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 18 (A/34/18). [2] Resolution 2106 A (XX), annex. [3] See Official Records of the General Assembly Thirty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 18 (A/34/18), para. 138. [4] Ibid., Thirty-second Session, Supplement No. 18 (A/32/18), chap. VIII, sect. A. [5] Ibid., Thirty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 18 (A/34/18), chap. VIII, sect. B.