The UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 418, requiring states to stop supplying arms and related military assistance to South Africa. International opposition to apartheid thus acquired a binding measure directed at the regime's capacity for repression. The embargo addressed the external support sustaining a racial state, although its effectiveness depended on enforcement and did not itself end apartheid.
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UN Security Council Resolution 418 was a voluntary appeal without binding arms restrictions.
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It imposed a mandatory arms embargo. Enforcement remained a separate practical challenge.