asked the Minister for External Affairs what position the Irish delegation to the United Nations General Assembly adopted on the question of the future of the former League of Nations mandated territory of South-West Africa.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Future of South-West Africa.
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The delegation supported the resolution adopted by the Assembly on this question on 7th April. In this resolution the Assembly, inter alia, “recognises and supports the passionate yearning of the people of South West Africa for freedom and the exercise of national independence and sovereignty, rejects the position taken by the Government of the Union of South Africa in refusing to co-operate with the United Nations” in the implementation of previous resolutions concerning the Territory. The resolution also “deplores as totally unacceptable the attempts” made by the Union to assimilate the Territory, describing these attempts as having “no moral or legal basis and as being repugnant to the letter and spirit of the Mandate”.