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| Title: | United Nations Observer Mission in South Africa: a significant event |
| Author: | Cassette, Jacqueline |
| Year: | 1992 |
| Periodical: | South African Yearbook of International Law |
| Volume: | 18 |
| Pages: | 1-23 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | UN election monitoring |
| Abstract: | The meeting on the South African question held by the Security Council on 15 and 16 July 1992, in the wake of the Boipatong tragedy of 17 June, in which thirty-nine people were massacred by a group of unidentified persons, marked the beginning of a new chapter in the relationship between South Africa and the United Nations and led ultimately to the deployment of a United Nations Observer Mission (UNOMSA) in the Republic of South Africa. The historic significance of the UNOMSA presence in South Africa becomes fully evident in the context of the past unhappy and unsatisfactory relationship between the UN and South Africa, recounted in the first part of this article. Secondly, UNOMSA, being the first UN mission of its kind, reflects a renewed and invigorated commitment on the part of the Organization to its primary objective of maintaining international peace and security. It represents a new phase in the evolution of peacekeeping operations conducted by the UN. The uniqueness of UNOMSA lies in the fact that it is the first time that the UN has committed itself to observing the implementation of a domestic peace accord brokered solely by and through the efforts of domestic political players. UNOMSA is an illustration par excellence of an attempt at 'preventive diplomacy'. Notes, ref. |
