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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Year 418 ( CDXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Honorius and Theodosius (or, less frequently, year 11 ...
(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 and decided, under
Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter
Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter sets out the UN Security Council's powers to maintain peace. It allows the Council to "determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression" and to take military an ...
, 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,
Deputy President of South Africa, 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
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Foreign relations of apartheid South Africa
Foreign relations of South Africa during apartheid refers to the foreign relations of South Africa between 1948 and the early 1990s. South Africa introduced '' apartheid'' in 1948, as a systematic extension of pre-existing racial discriminati ...
*
List of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 901 to 1000 (1994–1995)
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Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa
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Apartheid
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Sporting boycott of South Africa
References
External links
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Text of the Resolution at undocs.org
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