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(a) To continue to update, subject to annual review, the list of banks, transnational corporations and other organizations assisting the racist and colonialist regime of South Africa, giving such details regarding enterprises listed as the Special Rapporteur may consider necessary and appropriate, including explanations of responses, if any, and to submit the updated report to the Commission through the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities; (b) To use all available material from other United Nations organs, Member States, national liberation movements recognized by the Organization of African Unity, specialized agencies and other intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as other relevant sources in order to indicate the volume, nature and adverse human consequences of the assistance given to the racist regime of South Africa; (c) To intensify direct contacts with the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations and the Centre Against Apartheid of the Secretariat, with a view to consolidating mutual cooperation in updating the report; 4. Calls upon all Governments: (a) To cooperate with the Special Rapporteur in making the report even more accurate and informative; (b) To disseminate the updated report and give its contents the widest possible publicity; 5. Calls upon all Governments and organizations to maintain sanctions against the racist regime of South Africa until the total dismantlement of the apartheid system, in conformity with the Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa, adopted by the General Assembly by its resolution S-16/1 of 14 December 1989 and contained in the annex thereto; 6. Invites the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities at its forty-third session and the Commission on Human Rights at its forty-eighth session to consider the updated report; 7. Requests the Secretary-General, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 45/84, to make available to the Special Rapporteur two economists to help him develop his analysis and documentation on specific cases of special importance; 8. Also requests the Secretary-General to give the Special Rapporteur all the assistance that he may require in the exercise of his mandate, with a view to intensifying direct contacts with the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations and the Centre Against Apartheid and to consolidating mutual cooperation in updating his report; 9. Further requests the Secretary-General to bring the updated report of the Special Rapporteur to the attention of Governments whose national financial institutions continue to deal with the regime of South Africa, and to call upon them to provide the Special Rapporteur with any information or comments they may wish to present on the matter; 10. Requests the Secretary-General to contact the Government of South Africa with a view to enabling the Special Rapporteur to undertake a visit to South Africa on special mission within the perspective of the next up date of his report; 11. Invites the Secretary-General to continue to give the updated report of the Special Rapporteur the widest distribution and publicity as a United Nations publication. 13th plenary meeting 31 May 1991 1991/27. Question of enforced or involuntary disappearances The Economic and Social Council, Taking note of Commission on Human Rights resolution 1991/41 of 5 March 1991," 1. Authorizes an open-ended working group of the Commission on Human Rights to meet for a period of two weeks prior to the forty-eighth session of the Commission to consider the draft declaration on the protection of all persons from enforced or involuntary disappearances, prepared by the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities,62 with a view to its adoption by the Commission at its forty-eighth session; 2. Requests the Secretary-General to extend all facilities to the working group for its meeting prior to the forty-eighth session of the Commission. 13th plenary meeting 31 May 1991 1991/28. Right to a fair trial The Economic and Social Council, Recalling Commission on Human Rights decision 1990/108 of 7 March 1990," in which the Commission welcomed the decision of the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities to appoint Mr. Stanislav Chernichenko and Mr. William Treat as rapporteurs to prepare a report on existing international norms and standards pertaining to the right to a fair trial, and taking note of Commission resolution 1991/43 of 5 March 1991,61 Recalling also General Assembly resolution 41/120 of 4 December 1986 on setting international standards in the field of human rights, Taking into account the brief report on the right to a fair trial prepared by Mr. Chernichenko and Mr. Treat,64 1. Endorses resolution 1990/18 of 30 August 1990, adopted by the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities,65 by which the Subcommission decided to entrust Mr. Stanislav Chernichenko and Mr. William Treat with the preparation of a study entitled "The right to a fair trial: current recognition and measures necessary for its strengthen- 61 Ibid., 1991, Supplement No. 2 (E/1991/22), chap. II, sect. A. 62 E/CN.4/Sub.2/1990/32, annex. 6' See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1990, Supplement No. 2 and corrigendum (E/1990/22 and Corr. 1), chap. II, sect. B. 64 E/CN.4/Sub.2/1990/34 65 See E/CN.4/1991/2-E/'CN.4/Sub.2/1990/59 and Corr.l, chap. 11, seel. A.