§ Mr. WallI beg to ask leave to present a Petition to this honourable House on behalf of the officers of the Congress National Union of Rhodesia. The Petition states:
That we Rhodesian Africans, whether by birth or adoption, do solemnly protest against the imposition of sanctions by the British Parliament and the world in general as it is resulting in great suffering to the African community increasing the already grave unemployment problem.The Petitioners pray that the economic sanctions against their country be ended.The Petition is signed by Mr. J. J. Rice, the president, and eleven officers of the union. Associated with the Petition, couched in slightly different terms, are, I am informed, the names of some 200,000 Rhodesian Africans which, I understand, the union has collected during the past six months.
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The Petition ends:
'… your Petitioners as in duty bound, will ever pray".
§ To lie upon the Table.