United Nations Security Council resolution 919, adopted unanimously on 25 May 1994, after recalling all
resolutions on South Africa, in particular resolutions
282
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(1970),
418
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(1977),
421
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(1977),
558
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(1984) and
591
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(1986), the Council welcomed the
recent general elections and new
government
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and decided, under
Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter
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, to terminate the
arms embargo
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* to signal disapproval of the behavior of a certain actor
* to maintain ...
and all other restrictions against South Africa.
Measures imposed in other resolutions would also be ended. The Committee of the Security Council established in Resolution 421 was also dissolved.
Thabo Mbeki
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki (; born 18 June 1942) is a South African politician who served as the 2nd democratic president of South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008, when he resigned at the request of his party, the African National Cong ...
,
Deputy President of South Africa
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The deputy president is constit ...
, welcomed the lifting of restrictions, stating that they were "acceptance by the world body that we (South Africa) have become a democratic country".
See also
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Academic boycott of South Africa
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Disinvestment from South Africa
Disinvestment from South Africa was first advocated in the 1960s in protest against South Africa's system of apartheid, but was not implemented on a significant scale until the mid-1980s. A disinvestment policy the U.S. adopted in 1986 in resp ...
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Foreign relations of apartheid South Africa
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(1994–1995)
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Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa
The History of South Africa in the apartheid era, apartheid system in South Africa was ended through a series of bilateral and multi-party negotiations between 1990 and 1993. The negotiations culminated in the passage of a new Interim Constitu ...
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Apartheid
Apartheid ( , especially South African English: , ; , ) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an ...
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Sporting boycott of South Africa
South Africa under apartheid was subjected to a variety of international boycotts, including on sporting contacts. There was some debate about whether the aim of the boycott was to oppose segregation in sport or apartheid in general, with the la ...
References
External links
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Text of the Resolution at undocs.org
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 919
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United Nations Security Council sanctions regimes
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