in the total isolation of racist regimes and would force them to abandon the practices which they had adopted as methods of government. The Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia, together with other socialist and progressive developing countries, had more than once demanded that such measures should be applied, but other countries had blocked such attempts. Currently, the policy of imperialism endan­ gered the existence of the human race: all people, regardless of their colour or nationality, could perish immediately or gradually as a result of a war. In that context, the struggle against racism was a struggle for peace, for attaining concrete disarmament measures and solving conflict situations. Czechoslovakia would therefore continue to accord priority to the full and speedy implementation of the Programme of Action for the Second Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. 2 70. Mr. BOKHARI (Pakistan) said that the Secre­ tary-General's reports on the subject showed that Member States, United Nations bodies and special­ ized agencies, as well as other international and regional organizations and non-governmental organi­ zations, were making progress towards the achieve­ ment of the general objectives of the Programme of Action for the Second Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. 2 The proclamation in 1983 of the Second Decade had demonstrated the firm resolve of the international community to eliminate all forms of racism, racial discrimination and apartheid and had provided the most suitable vehicle for the realization of those objectives. 71. Year after year, South Africa's policies of apartheid continued to appear on the agenda of the General Assembly. That policy represented a chal­ lenge to the world community, and the international struggle against racism and racial discrimination must therefore be intensified. The persistent defiance of the Pretoria regime and other vested interests to 
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