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Romania
Practice Relating to Rule 88. Non-Discrimination
Section E. Apartheid
VI. Other National Practice
In 1973, during a debate in the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly on a draft convention on apartheid, Romania stated:
In light of the references to apartheid in the United Nations instruments and resolutions mentioned in the preamble to the draft Convention, it could be said that apartheid was already regarded in international law as constituting a crime against humanity. 
Romania, Statement before the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly, UN Doc. A/C.3/SR.2004, 23 October 1973, § 7.