(c) to encourage and extend financial support to workers' and employers' organisations in their programmes of action against apartheid so that they can exert the maximum pressure for the implementation of various recommenda- tions falling within their sphere of competence.
7. Renews its urgent appeal to governments, employers and workers of member States of the ILO to combine their efforts and put into application all appropriate measures to lead South Africa to heed the call of humanity and renounce its shameful policy of apartheid. In this respect, the basic guideline should be the conclusion on action against apartheid of the 1980 Session of the International Labour Conference as reflected in Provisional Record No. 25, of the 66th Session, the text of which is attached as the Appendix to this updated Declaration.
8. Reaffirms its resolve to co-operate with the United Nations in seeking and guaranteeing freedom and dignity, economic security and equal opportunity for all the people of South Africa, and in particular with the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, and its desire to co-operate with the Organisation of African Unity in all fields related to the elimination of apartheid.
9. Requests the Governing Body and the Director-General to take the necessary steps to organise systematic consultations with a view to reinforcing ILO co-operation with the Organisation of African Unity, and with the United Nations, including its Special Committee against Apartheid and its Commission on Human Rights, as well as with the other specialised agencies of the United Nations system, in order to intensify and co-ordinate all activities whose ultimate objective is to eliminate apartheid totally in all its facets at a more accelerated pace than hitherto.
APPENDIX
Conclusions on Action against Apartheid
(as contained in Provisional Record No. 25, of the 66th Session (1980) of the International Labour Conference, Report of the Committee on Apartheid, para. 38)
"38. With the reservations indicated in previous paragraphs, the Committee arrived at the following conclusions:
"A. The Committee considered it appropriate to:
(a) recall the Declaration concerning the Policy of Apartheid of the Republic of South Africa, which had been adopted unanimously by the International Labour Conference in 1964, and which had in particular made a pressing appeal to the governments, employers and workers of all States Members of the International Labour Organisation to combine their efforts and put into action all appropriate measures to lead the Republic of South Africa to heed the call of humanity and renounce its shameful policy of apartheid;
(b) take into account also the Programme for the Elimination of Apartheid in Labour Matters in the Republic of South Africa, which also had been adopted in 1964, as well as subsequent measures to give effect to the ILO's determination to eradicate apartheid in the field of labour including the Special Reports of the Director-General on the Application of the Declaration concerning the Policy of Apartheid in the Republic of South Africa, the expansion of the activities of the International Labour Office in this field through a wider range of educational and promotional activities and the extension of technical assistance within its fields of competence to the peoples of southern Africa and their national liberation movements; the Report of the Tripartite Meeting of Members of the Governing Body on Apartheid in May 1980, which contained fresh evidence of the continuation of apartheid in the field of labour and the aggravation of the situation of Black workers in that country; and the resolutions adopted by the two International Trade Union Conferences against Apartheid in 1973 and 1977;
(c) continue to reflect and to share the growing concern of the international community at the deterioration of the situation in South Africa under apartheid and the need for action thereon, as shown in the Programmes of Action adopted at the United Nations General Assembly and in subsequent resolutions of that Assembly (on such matters as: the situation in South Africa, sanctions against South Africa, the arms embargo, nuclear collaboration, the oil embargo, “bantustans", political prisoners, assistance to the oppressed people of South Africa and their national liberation movement, the dissemination of information on
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