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Bagbeni Adeito Nzengeya

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  1. “The Council has already encouraged the organization of free and democratic elections throughout the world in recent years - for example, in Namibia, Nicaragua, Haiti and shortly in Cambodia as well as elsewhere. For that reason, the Security Council should take the same stance with respect to South Africa so that the results of these democratic elections can pave the way to a genuine democratic, non-racial and united South African Republic.”

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  2. “My delegation, therefore, supports unreservedly the draft resolution presented by the ministerial delegation of the Organization of African Unity, since it condemns the escalation of violence in South Africa in all its forms and seeks to promote a peaceful transition to a democratic, non-racial and united South Africa. It also calls upon the Secretary-General of the United Nations to designate a special representative whose job it would be to create conditions conducive for a return to peace by eliminating violence and by resuming dialogue among all the parties concerned, which will be invited furthermore to cooperate with the special representative in order to remove all remaining obstacles to negotiation in CODESA II. The Security Council is therefore dealing with a burning issue which should be the constant subject of its attention.”

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  3. “Zaire has always, in full conformity with the resolution to which I have just referred, exorted the international community to abide by the decision of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity, which has encouraged ongoing dialogue between the United Patriotic Forces which comprise all the anti-apartheid forces, on the one hand, and the De Klerk Government, on the other - in other words, CODESA II - and hopes that everything will be done by those States that have relations with that regime to exert real pressure in order to ensure the success of this process.”

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  4. “My delegation supports implementation of resolution 1386 (LVI) adopted by the Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity which, inter alia, requests that a follow-up mission be sent to the Republic of South Africa as part of the negotiating process in order to put an end to violence. My delegation regrets that the South African security forces are in collision with numerous sympathizers of the so-called Inkatha, thus creating violence in South Africa.”

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  5. “Obviously, therefore, the South African Government, which is responsible for maintaining the safety of persons and goods, should do everything it can to put an end to this senseless violence. I appeal to all components of South African political life to put an end to their antagonisms, to resist the manipulations that are encouraging them to use violence in their relations, and to commit themselves to building a united and brotherly South Africa. I hope that the parties involved will shortly resume their dialogue and that the unity of action and the cohesion between the liberation movements and other democratic forces of the patriotic front will be preserved.”

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  6. “The identification of those elements will make it possible to uproot the causes of conflict and to design a new strategy for relaunching the dialogue. The interim government, among other tasks, will have to organize free and democratic elections, in other words, elections where every individual, whatever the colour of his skin, will have the right to vote. We have come to the Security Council with a profound hope that, under pressure from the international community, the South African Government will commit itself to the path leading to an effective cessation of violence which will thus make it possible for a resumption of the CODESA negotiations. We look forward to their favourable outcome.”

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  7. “Unfortunately, the massacre of Boipatong, which is still fresh in our memory, quickly opened our eyes. When we had reached the stage when the prospects of a negotiated settlement could be glimpsed on the horizon, the Boipatong massacre brutally reminded us that our optimism was a mere utopian dream. Boipatong suddenly made us aware of the abject and ignominious nature of the system of apartheid. To paraphrase Adolf Thiers, I think that in the South African tragedy "we have to take everything seriously and nothing tragically". Therefore, I believe that with the prospect of the resumption of CODESA the parties involved should identify the various factors involved in the conflict that pits the forces of progress and change against the acolytes of apartheid.”

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  8. “At this meeting the Security Council should do everything possible to shed light on South Africa, which means that all the foundations of apartheid must crumble. These foundations are the Colour Bar Act, the Native Lands Act, the Separate Educational System, the Population Registration Act and the Bantu Education Act. Now, what is happening on the spot - that is, in the political negotiations between the South African Government and the various components of South African nationalism? In order for us to have a fuller understanding of the attitude of the regime and its accomplices, a number of points need to be clarified. First, in CODESA I, Africa and the world expected the advent of a democratic South Africa that would be free once and for all from its revolting system of racism: apartheid.”

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  9. “The system of violence among blacks dates from that era and has become even more widespread today. The sixteenth special session of the General Assembly, by adopting on 14 December 1989 its declaration entitled "Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences for Southern Africa", sought to denounce and forestall the vicious cycle of violence that took hold in South Africa, encouraged by apartheid. The Organization of African Unity, which felt that something should be done, sent a mission to South Africa in order to investigate this vicious cycle of violence. Its report emphasized the obvious implication of those sympathizing with Inkatha, as well as certain elements of the South African security forces in the process of violence. Currently South Africa is veiled in obscurity.”

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  10. “Unfortunately, while dialogue was moving towards an agreement as part of the CODESA negotiating process, particularly regarding constitutional principles, the establishment of an interim government, the reintegration of the Bantustans, a new factor surfaced, which is the subject of the current meeting of the Security Council: violence. In order to understand this state of violence, I think we really have to go back to the 1630s, when the first Boers landed on the coasts of Azania. The Hottentot, Bushman and Bantu communities accepted them, just as they accepted the French Huguenots who fled France, where they were persecuted by the Roman Catholics. That is the plight of the indigenous placks who, unfortunately, today are segregated on the land of their ancestors.”

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  11. “A multi-party Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) was established as the ideal framework for dialogue and negotiation between the Government and all South African liberation movements without exception. There was the release, albeit incomplete, of political prisoners and, finally, there was the return, under the aegis of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, of political exiles to their country, South Africa. Heartened by these various signs of goodwill, the international community believed that South Africa had resolutely embarked upon the path of irrevocable change. The international community responded in kind with gestures to ease economic pressure, bring about a relaxation in political relations and ease restrictions on sporting events.”

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  12. “Nelson Mandela, our African delegations were impressed by the courageous and far-reaching political gestures made by the Government officials and South African leaders, gestures to defuse political, racial and social tension among the various South African communities, gestures which brought us closer to the creation of a non-racial, democratic and free South Africa. Among these gestures, we could refer to the process pursued by the Government of President De Klerk in dismantling apartheid by repealing the Groups Areas Act and the Land Act. 'The amendments made by that Government to the law on internal security, which restricts the powers of arbitrary arrest and imprisonment without trial applied to the police, but unfortunately they did not eliminate such acts.”

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  13. “During the work of the 28th summit meeting of the OAU, the Heads of State and Government learned a great deal from President Makwetu of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) and from President Mandela himself, on the behaviour of the regime which, after having given signs of being commited to CODESA I was clearly negative and ambiguous with respect to CODESA II. This irresponsible conduct inevitably led to the tragedy which occurred in Boipatong. Since the release by the Government of President de Klerk of the leader of the ANC, Mr.”

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  14. “it was agreed that the massacre of Boipatong had been perpetrated despite the fact that the police were warned in time but arrived at the scene five hours after the beginning of the slaughter and two hours after the departure of the assassins, which indicates, according to what we have heard, that the police had no intention of preventing the massacre and arresting the perpetrators, who were simply members of the notorious "*Koevoets" of recent Sinister memory in Namibia. The ANC even located the inn where the members of that ill-famed "Koevoets" were installed.”

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  15. “He earnestly appealed for the signing of a final agreement on the transition period to avoid, or at least to forestall, a possible confrontation between the oppressed majority and the white minority. The Council listened very closely to the statement made by the President of the African National Council (ANC), Mr. Nelson Mandela, who pointed out that agreement on the negotiating process under CODESA was not being respected by the current authorities. This agreement contemplates, inter alia, constitutional principles, the establishment of an interim government and the reinstatement of Bantustans.”

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  16. “The tragic situation which is currently prevailing in South Africa following the slaughter at Boipatong led the twenty-eighth summit meeting of the OAU, recently heid in Dakar, to request the convening of this meeting. The high representational level of the delegation dispatched by the OAU to take part in the present meeting of the Council is a clear demonstration of the confidence which the African continent places in the ability of the United Nations to forestall, te avoid and to resolve conflicts that pose a threat to international peace and security. In Dakar, the Council of Ministers first gave particular attention to the representative of the Special Committee Against Apartheid. He emphasized that the South African regime was the origin of the difficulties encountered by CODESA.”

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  17. “May I also address your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Belgium, Ambassador Paul Noterdaeme, who as President of the Council for the month of June, distinguished himself for the second time by his diplomatic talent in successfully discharging the mandate which was his during that month. Our gratitude goes to all the members of the Council who agreed to accede to the request of the OAU to hold this meeting of the Security Council on the question of the violence in South Africa. I should also like to thank the Secretary-General for the constant interest which he has evinced in the elimination of apartheid from South Africa and for the creation of a democratic regime in that country.”

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  18. “Mr. BAGBENI ADEITO NZENGEYA (Zaire) (interpretation from French): I should like to convey to you, Sir, our sincere congratulations on your accession to the presidency of the Security Council, particularly at this : precise juncture in the month of July when the ministerial delegation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) has been mandated to bring before you a burning issue concerning the situation in South Africa. Aware as we are of your moral and intellectual qualities, we are fully confident that your mission will be successfully fulfilled.”

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