The Ukraine today ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Dicrimination. The Convention was adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 1965. Under the Convention, States which become Parties condemn" racial discrimination and undertake to pursue, by all appropriate means and without delay, a policy of eliminating racial discrimination in all its forms and promoting understanding among races." The Convention provides for the estbalishment of machinery to oversee the implementation of its provisions.
Mr. C.A. Stavropoulos (left), UN Legal Counsel, receiving the instrument of ratification from Ambassador Mikhail Deonisovich Polyanichko, Permanent Representative of the Ukraine to the United Nations. At right is Mr. Vladimir Alekseevich Kravets, Counsellor, Ukrainian S.S.R. Mission.