UNITED NATIONS Chairman: ·General Assembly ( \ SPECIAL COMMITTEE AGAINST APARTHEID SUMMARY RECORD OF THE THE 64lst MEETING Held at Headquarters, New York, on Friday, 22 June 1990, at 10.30 a.m. Mr. GAMBARI CONTENTS Distr. GENERAL A A/AC.115/SR.641 27 June 1990 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH (Nigeria) Expression of sympathy in c·onnection with the recent earthquake- in Iran Special meeting -to welcome Nelson Mandela This record is subject to correction. Corrections should be submitted in one of the working languages. They should be set forth in a memorandum and also incorporated in a copy of the record. They should be sent within one week of the date of-this a·ocunient , to the Chief, Official Records Editing Section , Department of Conference Services, room DC2-750, 2 United Nations Plaza. Any corrections to the record of this meeting and of other meetings will be issued in a corrigendwn. 90-55683 25305 (E) I• • • A/AC.115/SR. 641 English Page 2 " ---_,-~----- .. ----- The meeting was called to order at 11.05 a.m. EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY IN CONNECTION WITH THE RECENT EARTHQUAKE IN IRAN 1. On the i;,roposal of the Chairman, the members of the Committee observed a minute -of sile·nce ·in Sympathy ··with ·the victims of the recent earthquake in I_ran. SPECIAL MEETING TO WELCOME NELSON.MANDELA 2. The CHAIRMAN said that a man who was a lege.nd in his own time was about to address the assembly of nations; a man who for many years had been identified with the.struggle against racism; aman who had become the moral conscience of the world and an embodiment of the finest in the human spirit in the universal struggle for peace, j.ustice and freedom; yet wh6 at the same time, remarkably, combined greatness with humility. 