GA/AP/805, 1 March 1978
The following message was sent today by Leslie O. Harriman (Nigeria), Chairman of the Special Committee against Apartheid, to Roger Manser, Secretary-General of the International Youth and Student Movement for the United Nations (ISMUN), Geneva, in connection with its observance today of a Day of Solidarity with Conscientious Objectors in Southern Africa" who refuse to cooperate with racial oppression:
"I wish to commend the timely initiative of the International Youth and Student Movement for the United Nations in organizing a day of solidarity with conscientious objectors in southern Africa, to show support to young people who are refusing to join racist armed forces utilized to enforce the subjugation of the black people and to commit acts of aggression against independent African States.
"I hope that all organizations concerned will join with ISMUN in persuading the white youth of South Africa to dissociate themselves from the crimes of the apartheid regime and in assisting those who are obliged to escape from the country for reasons of conscience."