The Special Committee against Apartheid held a special solemn meeting this morning in observance of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The Internatiobnal Day, 21 March, falls this year on a Sunday. All Permanent Missions had been invited to attend the meeting, along with representatives of non-member States, the specialised agencies and other organizations in the UN family, and two South African liberation movements - the African National Congress of South Africa (ANC) and the Panafricanist Congress of Azania (PAC).
Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim making a statement. Seated next to him is Mrs. Jeanne Martin Cisse (Guinea), Chairman of the Special Committee against Apartheid.

Algeria became the forty-fifth signatory of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Dicrimination today at Headquarters.
Tewfik Bouattoura, Permanent Representative of Algeria to the UN, is seen signing the Convention while F. Blaine Sloan, Director, General Legal Division, Office of Legal Affairs, looks on.