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THAT THIS ONE CONDITION WOULD NOT BE ENOUGH FOR FRANCE.
7. AFTER FURTHER DISCUSSION (IN THE MARGINS OF WHICH IT WAS REPORTED THAT KOHL HAD TOLD YOU HE FAVOURED LIFTING ONE MEASURE AT ONCE) A DRAFT DECLARATION WAS PUT TO FOREIGN MINISTERS OVER DINNER CONTAINING 2 ALTERNATIVES:
(A) A QUALIFIED DECISION TO LIFT THE INVESTMENT BAN IMMEDIATELY. DECISIONS TO REPEAL THE GROUP AREAS AND LAND ACTS AND THE RELEASE OF ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS WOULD ENABLE THE COMMUNITY TO RELAX OTHER RESTRICTIVE MEASURES (IE NOT NECESSARILY ONLY THE 1986
ONES):
(B) ADECISION TO LIFT THE 1986 MEASURES, SUBJECT TO FULFILMENT OF ALL 4 CONDITIONS.
8. DE MICHELIS APPEALED TO PARTNERS TO AGREE THE FIRST ALTERNATIVE. GENSCHER INDICATED A MOVEMENT IN THE GERMAN POSITION (TO IMMEDIATE RELAXATION OF THE BAN ON NEW INVESTMENTS). DUMAS SAID WE HAD TO LOOK OUT FOR THE INTERESTS OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY. YOU ASKED WHETHER WE WANTED TO GIVE ACTIVE ENCOURAGEMENT TO REFORM IN SOUTH AFRICA OR MERELY WAIT UNTIL REFORM HAD BEEN ACHIEVED. YOUR EMPHATIC VIEW WAS THAT WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE THE PROCESS OF CHANGE. ELLEMANN- JENSEN AND COLLINS URGED THAT THE TWELVE FIND A PEG FOR THEIR
ACTION.
9. ON THE FINAL MORNING 2 OPTIONS IE OPTION 7 (A) ABOVE AND A MUCH IMPROVED, DANISH, VERSION OF OPTION 7 (B) ABOVE WERE SUBMITTED TO HEADS OF GOVERNMENT. THE LATTER LIMITED CONDITIONS ONLY TO LEGISLATIVE ACTION BEING TAKEN ON THE GROUP AREAS AND LAND ACTS. DUMAS INDICATED THAT HE COULD SUPPORT THE IMMEDIATE LIFTING OF THE BAN ON NEW INVESTMENT S AND THAT FURTHER EASING OF THE 1986 MEASURES WOULD FOLLOW ONCE THE LEGISLATION ON THE GROUP AREAS AND LANDS ACTS HAD BEEN TABLED. IN THE ABSENCE OF DANISH AND IRISH OPPOSITION, THIS WAS AGREED.
10. A DECLARATION ON SOUTH AFRICA WAS ISSUED BY THE EUROPEAN
COUNCIL. TEXT IN MIFT.
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