The Special Committee against Apartheid held Solemn Meeting on 21 March to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and to launch the Week of Solidarity with peoples Struggling against Racism. Today also marked the twentieth annversary of the Sharpeville massacre, at which in 1960, 69 demonstrators against the pass laws of the Apartheid system were shot and killed, and 180 others wounded, in Sharpeville, South Africa. The Committee heard statements by Secretary-general Kurt Waldheim and by representatives of African and UN groups including the Chairman of the Committee, B. Akporode Clark (Nigeria).
Henry Isaacs of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), addressing the meeting.

View of Terence Christopher O'Brien (left) of New Zealand, President of the Security Council, addressing the Special Committee Against Apartheid. To the right is President of the General Assembly Stoyan Ganev.

Informal view of the head table of the Special Committee Against Apartheid. From the left to the right are: Johan Nordenfelt, Director of the Centre Against Apartheid, Victor Batiouk, Permanent Representative of Ukraine and Acting Chairman of the Special Committee; and Amer Araime, Secretary of the Special Committe Against Apartheid.

View of Renagi Renagi Lohia (left) of New Guinea, Chairman of the Special Committe on Decolonization, addressing the Special Committee Against Apartheid.

View of Luis Valencia Rodriguez of Ecuador, Chairman of the Special Committe on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, addressing the Special Committee Against Apartheid.