The delegation of Rwanda would like to say that the Batwa people are an integral part of the Rwandan people, the Banyarwanda, who since time immemorial have been united by single language, a single culture and, more important, similar lifestyles.

As a direct result of this project, all 48 NGOs dealing with women's concerns in the country have been united under the National Committee, for the first time, to exchange views and effectively shape the national dialogue on gender issues.

41. Mr. PHEKO (Pan Africanist Congress of Azania), after reviewing the principal developments in South Africa's colonial history, recalled that the four British colonies, the Cape, the Transvaal, the Orange Free State and Natal, had been united only as a means of more effectively fighting the indigenous peoples and that the admission of South Africa to the League of Nations in 1919, and subsequently to the United Nations in 1945, had not been accompanied by the decolonization of that country, whose current international status was a violation of jus cogens.