issue of East-West contention has also played into Preto- ria’s hands. 37. After seven long years of mounting exasperation with the non-implementation of the United Nations plan, owing to the unceasing manoeuvres and fraudulent schemes of the illegal occupation regime, the interna- tional community expects the Security Council to act resolutely and firmly in the immediate implementation of its own unanimously adopted decisions on Namibia. To equivocate will inevitably entail the most dangerous con- sequences for peace and security in southern Africa and beyond. 38. We therefore hope that the Council’s present delib- erations and subsequent actions will not digress into a mere repetition of perfunctory declarations and state- ments of principle. Indeed, out of these meetings should emanate decisions which will, first, provide for the imme- diate, unconditional and undiluted implementation of resolution 435 (1978) as the only internationally accepta- ble basis for a peaceful settlement of the Namibian prob- 4 lem; secondly, condemn and declare null and void South Africa’s latest attempt to impose a fait accompli in Na- mibia through the installation of a so-called interim government in Windhoek; thirdly, reject any linking of Namibian independence to irrelevant and exraneous issues; and, fourthly, ensure that Namibia accedes to genuine independence, with its territorial integrity intact and its economic viability unimpaired. 39. My delegation would also see merit in mandating the Secretary-General to pick up the threads of his earlier efforts and to finalize whatever details are still left unre- solved in the framework of implementing resolution 435 (1978). However, the conclusions reached by the Secretary-General in his report dated 6 June [S/17242] make it clear that there has been no change in the position of South Africa on linking extraneous issues to Namibia’s independence, that it has not given its response with regard to the remaining details on the implementation of 
**Analysis**
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