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Summary Record of Meeting Between the Secretary of State and Genscher in Hanover on 12 April 1986
Private Secretaries were also present: on the German side
Wolfgang Ischinger.
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A few miscellaneous points:
Genscher thought the new government in Paris might change French policy on South Africa and Central America;
he agreed emphatically that it would be better to avoid mention of South Africa in the Tokyo Summit communique;
He he mentioned that he had recently met Oliver Tambo. had found him impressive, and had noted with interest that he spoke of Pik Botha with some respect. The tragedy was that soon the Tambos and Mandelas would find themselves irrelevant, bypassed by the radicals of the new generation. The South Africans had imprisoned the wrong people - precisely the ones with whom they could have done business. It seemed that the fundamental mood of the whites in South Africa made real reform impossible.
Meeting Proper
Libya
3. Genscher having asked for an account of our views the Secretary of State explained that we had no doubt that Libya had been directly responsible for a number of recent acts of terrorism. Our own experience had been that the closure of the Libyan People's Bureau (LPB) had made it considerably easier to restrict Libyan activity in the UK. It would be nothing but helpful for the FRG also to take similar action. Given the evidence that a primary purpose of each LPB was to promote terrorism, to tolerate their existence could be seen as foolish. Genscher said that the FRG authorities had the Bonn LPB under very close control. There was more evidence against the one in Berlin. The Secretary of State noted that there was clear evidence of Libyan support for the IRA; we had no doubt that it was imperative to do everything necessary to frustrate that kind of link. It was also permissible under international law to take actions of a certain kind in self defence. Some kinds of action, however, would go beyond that point.
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