Government of India. Ministry of external Affairs. Question of Treatment of Indians in the Union South Africa Before The United Nations. Document and Proceedings

The Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations presents his compliments to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and has the honour to state that as the Secretary-General is aware the question of treatment of Indians in South Africa bas been before the General Assembly since 1946 and in the last resolution of the General Assembly dated 14 May 1949 the Governments of India P [...] In the correspondence that has followed the Government of the Union of South Africa have refused to accede to the request of the Government of India and the Group Areas Bill which the Government of India were most anxious to have postponed was rushed through the Parliament of the Union of South Africa and had now become law. [...] 1. In a letter dated 10 July 1950 (A/1289) the Permanent Rpresentative of India to the United Nations requested the SecretarGeneral to place the question of the treatment of people of Indian origin in the Union of South Africa on the provisional agenda of the fifth session of the General Assembly and stated that a memorandum on the developments subsequent to General Assembly resolution 265 [...] The draft resolution also recommended the Government of the Union of South Africa to take all steps necessary speedily to bring its treatment of people of Indian origin into conformity with the purposes and principles of the Charter and the Declaration of Human Rights bearing in mind the vital importance of those principles to the securing of international peace as well as the strengthening of de [...] Therefore after the presentation of the facts by the representtive of India the representative of South Africa will have the floor to raise the question of the competence of the Committee to deal with the question.31 Mr.