View of Ibrahim A. Gambari (right), Chairman of the Special Committee Against Apartheid, addressing the Committee. On the left are Stoyan Ganev, President of the General Assembly; and Secretary-General Boutros Boutros Ghali.

View of the participants of the meeting of the Special Committee Against Apartheid observing a moment of silence in honour of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

View of Stoyan Ganev (centre) of Bulgaria, President of the General Assembly, addressing the Special Committee Against Apartheid. On the left is Terence Christopher O'Brien of New Zealand, President of Security Council, and on the right is Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

View of S.E.M. Pheko (second from left), observer for the Pan Africanist Congress of Anzania (PAC), addressing the Special Committee Against Apartheid.

The First International Day for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination was commemorated this morning by a special meeting held in the Assembly Hall of the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
The meeting was opened by Professor Petr Nedbailo, Chairman of the twenty-third session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, now meeting in Geneva. He recalled that March 21 commemorated the anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa, when peaceful demonstrations were fired upon and killed by the authorities. The decision to proclaim March 21 as International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination was made by the General Assembly at its 23rd session.
The presiding table during a statement by Mr. Marc Schreiber, Director UN Human Rights Division. Left to right: Pier P. Spinelli, Director-General of UN Office in Geneva; Prof. Petr Nedbailo, Chairman of 23rd session of UN Human Rights Commission; Marc Schreiber; Valentin Romanov, Secretary of the Commission; Maxime-Leopold Zoliner (Dahomey), Vice-Chairman.