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UNEQUIVOCALLY THE SYSTEM OF APARTHEID WHICH VIOLATES HUMAN DIGNITY AND REITERATED THEIR CALL FOR ITS TOTAL ABOLITION. THEY CALLED ON THE GOVERNMENT OF SOUTH AFRICA TO INITIATE WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY THE NATIONAL DIALOGUE WITH THE GENUINE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN PEOPLE. THE PREREQUISITES OF THIS SHOULD INCLUDE THE LIFTING OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY, THE UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE OF ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS AND THE UNBANNING OF ALL POLITICAL PARTIES. THE MINISTERS VIGOROUSLY CONDEMNED THE RECENT POLITICAL SUPPRESSION OF SOUTH AFRICAN ORGANIZATIONS. THEY URGED THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT MOST STRONGLY TO REPEAL THE IMPOSED MEASURES WITHOUT DELAY. THE MINISTERS FURTHER CONDEMNED THE AGGRESSION AND ALL DESTABI- LIZING ACTIVITIES ON THE PART OF SOUTH AFRICA AGAINST ITS NEIGHBOURS IN THE REGION AND CALLED FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF REGIONAL PROBLEMS BY PEACEFUL MEANS. THE MINISTERS CALLED FOR AN IMMEDIATE INDEPENDANCE OF NAMIBIA IN ACCORDANCE WITH UN RESOLUTION 435 WHICH MUST TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE I NALIENABLE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION.
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PARA 12 CENTRAL AMERICA DELETE THE WHOLE PARAGRAPH. PARA 13 NARCOTICS
DRUG TRAFFICKING AND ABUSE CONSTITUTE AN INCREASING THREAT TO THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTER- NATIONAL COMMUNITY. THE MINISTERS EKSPRESSED THEIR RESOLVE TO UNITE THEIR COUNTRIES' FORCES TO FIGHT THIS SERIOUS INTER- NATIONAL THREAT. THEY WELCOMED THE FACT THAT THE FIRST INTER- NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DRUG ABUSE AND ILLICIT TRAFFICKING IN JUNE 1987 PROVIDED AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK OUT COMMON STRATEGIES TO COMBAT THE ILLICT MANUFACTURE, TRAFFICKING AND CONSUMPTION OF DRUGS AND RELATED ORIGINAL ACTIVITIES. IT IS NOW ESSENTIAL TO IMPLEMENT THE CONFERENCE'S RECOMMEN- DATIONS CONSISTENTLY AND RAPIDLY, IN PARTICULAR BY IMPLEMENT- ING THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY CON- SENSUS AT THE 1988 MEETING OF THE COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS AND BY AN EARLY NEGOTIATION, SIGNATURE AND RATIFICAT- ION OF THE NEW UN CONVENTION OF ILLICIT TRAFFICKING. PARA 14 INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM NO CHANGE.
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A NEW PARAGRAPH TO BE INSERTED AFTER THE PARAGRAPH ON 'CUL- TURAL RELATIONS'' AND BEFORE THE PARAGRAPH ON 'EAST-WEST RE- LATIONS' TO READ AS FOLLOWS:
''THE MINISTERS WERE ENCOURAGED BY THE POSITIVE RESULTS
THE BEGINN- OF CONSULTATIONS BETWEEN THE EC AND ASEAN SINCE ING OF THE ASEAN-EC MINISTERIAL MEETINGSIN 1978. THE MINISTERS REAFFIRMED THE DESIRABILITY IN THE FUTURE OF HAVING CLOSE AND PERIODIC CONSULTATIONS ON ISSUES OF MUTUAL INTEREST,
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