Urges the Government of South Africa to work speedily to create the conditions necessary for the establishment of genuine democracy in South Africa, based on the guidelines provided in the Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa; condemns those transnational corporations that continue to collaborate with the racist minority régime in South Africa; calls upon the Governments of the home countries of transnational corporations to implement fully the provisions of Economic and Social Council resolution 1988/56 and to consider adopting further measures to prohibit all forms of collaboration by transnational corporations with the racist minority régime in South Africa; calls upon the Government of the United Kingdom to rescind its decision to lift unilaterally the ban of the Commission of the European Communities on new investments in South Africa; calls upon the Government of Hungary to abandon any links with the apartheid régime that would serve to sustain that régime; urges all transnational corporations to stop immediately any operations in South Africa and all forms of trade and economic links with the racist minority régime; calls upon all multilateral financial and development institutions to cease immediately any kind of support or other form of collaboration with the racist régime in South Africa.

Adopted 34-14-2, 37th meeting

Adopted at the 37th plenary meeting, 27 July 1990.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its 2nd regular session of 1990, Geneva, 4-27 July 1990. - E/1990/INF/8. - 15 Aug. 1990. - p. 34-36. - Issued in ESCOR, 1990, Suppl. no. 1 and 1A.