AHG/Res. 89 (XV)
SPECIAL RESOLUTION ON SANCTIONS AGAINST THE
SMITH REGIME
The Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU, meeting in its
Fifteenth Ordinary Session in Khartoum, Democratic Republic of the Sudan, from 18 to
22 July 1978.
Reaffirming its unequivocal commitment to support the struggle of the people of
Zimbabwe until complete and genuine freedom and independence of the territory is
achieved,
Recalling UN Security Council Resolution which rejected the so-called internal
settlement in Zimbabwe,
Affirming its convictions that the so-called internal settlement constitutes yet
another maneuvre of the illegal racist minority regime to maintain its domination and
oppression of the African people of Zimbabwe,
Conscious of the imperative need to maintain and intensify the isolation of the
Smith racist minority regime,
Conscious also of the fact that mandatory sanctions against the Rhodesian
regime constitutes an important element in the isolation of that regime and in support of
the Zimbabwe Liberation struggle,
Having been informed of the current moves in the United States of America to
lift sanctions against the Smith regime in violation of international law,
Bearing in mind the responsibility of all States to scrupulously apply sanctions in
accordance with the decisions of the Security Council:
1. REAFFIRMS its prior support for the armed struggle waged by the people of
Zimbabwe under the leadership of the Patriotic Front;