The Question of Namibia
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https://doi.org/10.15362/ijbs.v3i0.74Abstract
A review of some of the legal and political problems which have arisen in the context of the United Nations relating to the administration and responsibility for Namibia as it moves to become an independent country. Note: Another version of this paper with the same title was published in October 1982 in West Indian Law Journal, Vol. 6(2), 245-255.References
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