A/RES/48/258 Page 4 Recognizing the valuable assistance rendered by the United Nations Educational and Training Programme for Southern Africa to disadvantaged students in South Africa, its support for institution-building in that country and the measures it has taken to ensure that commitments made with regard to educational and training assistance can be met in full, Recognizing also that the legacies of apartheid will continue to affect disadvantaged South Africans for years to come, 1. Expresses its satisfaction at the successful holding, from 26 to 29 April 1994, of the first non-racial and democratic elections in South Africa, the establishment of the Government of National Unity and the coming into effect of a non-racial and democratic constitution for the transitional period; 2. Agrees with the view of the Committee of Trustees of the United Nations Trust Fund for South Africa, expressed in the annex to the report of the Secretary-General, 2/ that the Fund has now fulfilled its mandate; 3. Endorses the recommendations of the Committee of Trustees that remaining funds of the Trust Fund be transferred to the United Nations Educational and Training Programme for Southern Africa to be used for the purposes of that Programme and that residual administrative matters relating to the programme of the Trust Fund be handled by the Secretariat unit responsible for the administration of the Programme; 4. Also endorses the recommendation of the Committee of Trustees that its functions be discontinued; 5. Expresses its appreciation to the Governments, organizations and individuals that have made generous contributions to the Trust Fund and to the voluntary agencies that have been engaged in rendering legal, educational and relief assistance to the victims of apartheid in South Africa over the years; 6. Expresses its gratitude to the Secretary-General and to the Committee of Trustees for their persistent humanitarian efforts in South Africa; 7. Appeals to Member States to offer financial and material support to the reconstruction and development efforts of the new Government of National Unity of South Africa and to continue to assist civic society in that country. 95th plenary meeting 23 June 1994