PAKISTAN

General Comments - Government Responses

CERD A/28/18

Annex IV

Texts of comments of States parties to general recommendation III, adopted by the Committee at its sixth session, received up to the end of the eighth session, in accordance with article 9, paragraph 2, of the Convention a/

[Original: English]

12 January 1973

            Pakistan maintains no diplomatic, economic or other relations with the racist regime in South Africa. Pakistan does not recognize the illegal racist minority regime in Southern Rhodesia. It has always condemned apartheid and has constantly provided moral and material support to the peoples struggling against racial discrimination.

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            a/ See chap. VI, paras. 317 to 322 above; for the text of general recommendation III see decision 1 (VI), chap. IX, sect. B, of the report of the Committee to the twenty-seventh session of the General Assembly, Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 18 (A/8718).