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Article: World Conference calls for universal system of mandatory economic sanctions against South Africa.
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- August 1, 1986
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World Conference calls for universal system of mandatory economic sanctions against South Africa
A Declaration calling for a worldwide, comprehensive system of mandatory economic sanctions against South Africa--aimed at bringing to an and that country's apartheid system, its illegal occupation of Namibia and its attacks on neighbouring States--was adopted by acclamation on 20 June by the World Conference on Sanctions against Racist South Africa.
The Conference, held from 16 to 20 June in Paris, was timed to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising in South Africa.
Abdou Diouf, President of Senegal and current Chairman of the ...