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... Observing that the General Assembly of the United Nations has adopted a
number of resolutions in which the policies and practices of apartheid are
condemned as a crime against humanity, ...
... (a) To adopt any legislative or other measures necessary to suppress as
well as to prevent any encouragement of the crime of apartheid and similar
segregationist policies or their manifestations and to punish persons
guilty of that crime; ...
... (b) To adopt legislative, judicial and administrative measures to
prosecute, bring to trial and punish in accordance with their jurisdiction
persons responsible for, or accused of, the acts defined in article 2 of
the present Convention, whether or not such persons reside in the
territory of the State in which the acts are committed or are nationals of
that State or of some other State or are stateless persons. ...
... The States Parties to the present Convention undertake to accept and
carry out in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations the
decisions taken by the Security Council aimed at the prevention,
suppression and punishment of the crime of apartheid, and to co-operate in
the implementation of decisions adopted by other competent organs of the
United Nations with a view to achieving the purposes of the Convention.
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... 1. The States Parties to the present Convention undertake to submit
periodic reports to the group established under article 9 on the
legislative, judicial, administrative or other measures that they have
adopted and that give effect to the provisions of the Convention. ...
... Adopted and opened for signature and ratification by General Assembly
resolution 3068 (XXVIII) of 30 November 1973 ...