Exports to South Africa; Removal of Foreign Policy Controls

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On May 25, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) passed Resolution 919 lifting the arms embargo against South Africa, and withdrawing their recommendation for other voluntary restrictions on sales to the South African military and police. The UNSC took this action at the request of the new South African Government, which was sworn in on May 10 following that nation's first all-race elections. With the end of the apartheid era in South Africa, the justification for maintaining the arms embargo and other restrictions no longer exists. In recognition of the UNSC action and the installation of a democratically elected, nonracial government in South Africa, the Department of Commerce's export control regulations are hereby amended to eliminate controls established to implement an arms embargo, and to remove specific controls on exports to the South African military and police.