The UN requests States to terminate restrictions on economic relations with South Africa with immediate effect

The United Nations(UN) requested States to terminate restrictions on economic relations with South Africa immediately, and to terminate the oil embargo against the country when the Transitional Executive Council in South Africa became operational. A resolution calling for economic and diplomatic sanctions against SA was passed in 1962 and in 1963 the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution calling for an arms embargo. In 1965 the General Assembly passed a motion calling for mandatory sanctions against SA and in 1974 South Africa was suspended from the UN General Assembly.  This move to terminate sanctions against South Africa ended years of conflict between the UN and the country’s government, during which South Africa's credentials were sometimes not accepted and efforts were made to expel South Africa from the Organisation. The conflict centred on SA's contested mandate in South West Africa (now Namibia) and the UN's opposition against Apartheid.