The UN Human Rights Seminar on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, organized by the UN and the Government of India, opened in New Delhi today. Public Officials and civic leaders , who will exchange ideas and experiences on national and international efforts to promote the elimination of racial discrimination in all its forms, are attending from the following countries: Afghanistan, Belgium, Canada, Ceylon, Czechoslovakia, France, Guyana, India, Iran, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Norway, Peru, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Turkey, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, United Republic of Tanzania, and Yugoslavia. Also attending the seminar are representatives of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Marc Schreiber (2nd from right), Director of the Division of Human Rigts and representing the UN Secretary-General is seen opening the seminar. To his right is Kamleshwar Das, Secretary of the Seminar, and to the right are Bali Ram Bahgat, India's Minister of State for External Affairs, and Nessim Shallon, Resident Representative a.i., UN Development Programme for India.

The UN Human Rights Seminar on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, organized by the UN and the Government of India, opened in New Delhi today. Public Officials and civic leaders , who will exchange ideas and experiences on national and international efforts to promote the elimination of racial discrimination in all its forms, are attending from the following countries: Afghanistan, Belgium, Canada, Ceylon, Czechoslovakia, France, Guyana, India, Iran, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Norway, Peru, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Turkey, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, United Republic of Tanzania, and Yugoslavia. Also attending the seminar are representatives of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Bali Ram Bahgat, India's Minister of State for External Affairs is seen inaugurating the seminar. On his left is Marc Schreiber, Director of the UN Division of Human Rights who is representing the UN Secretary-general, and on his right is Nessim Shallon, Resident Representative a.i., UN Development Programme for India.

The UN Human Rights Seminar on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, organized by the UN and the Government of India, opened in New Delhi today. Public Officials and civic leaders , who will exchange ideas and experiences on national and international efforts to promote the elimination of racial discrimination in all its forms, are attending from the following countries: Afghanistan, Belgium, Canada, Ceylon, Czechoslovakia, France, Guyana, India, Iran, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Norway, Peru, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Turkey, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, United Republic of Tanzania, and Yugoslavia. Also attending the seminar are representatives of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
A general view of the meeting as India's Minister of State for External Affairs Bali Ram Bhagat, inaugurated the seminar.

Senagal today became the sixty-seventh country to sign the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which was adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 1965 (Resolution 2106 (XX)). The Permanent Representative of Senegal, Ibrahima Boye, signed the Convention on behalf of his government at a brief ceremony in the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs.
Under this Convention, which has yet to come into force, Stateswhich have become parties "condemn racial discrimination and undertake to pursue, by all appropriate means and without delay, a policy of eliminating racial discrimination in all its forms and promoting understanding among races."
Ibrahima Boye, Permanent Representative of Senegal to the United Nations, is seen signing the Convention today. Looking on are, Charles Delgado, First Secretary, Senegal Mission, and Constantin Stavropoulos, United Nations Legal Counsel (right).