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11.

BILITY OF THE WHOLE REGION. THE MINISTERS REAFFIRMED THEIR SUPPORT FOR A SPEEDY SOLUTION OF THE CONFLICT THROUGH THE IM-

PLEMENTATION OF SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION

SOUTHERN AFRICA

598.

WITH REGARD TO SOUTHERN AFRICA, THE MINISTERS REJECTED UN-

EQUIVOCALLY THE SYSTEM OF APARTHEID WHICH VIOLATES HUMAN DI-

GNITY 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 REPRE-

SENTATIVES 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

ORGANISATIONS. THEY URGED THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT MOST

STRONGLY TO REPEAL THE IMPOSED MEASURES WITHOUT DELAY. THE

MINISTERS FURTHER CONDEMNED ALL AGGRESSIVE AND DESTABILIZING

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 INDEPENDENCE OF NAMIBIA IN ACCORDANCE WITH UN

RESOLUTION 435 WHICH MUST TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE

INALIENABLE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION.

12. NARCOTICS

13.

A

DRUG TRAFFICKING AND ABUSE CONSTITUTE AN INCREASING THREAT TO

THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COM-

MUNITY. THE MINISTERS EKSPRESSED THEIR RESOLVE TO UNITE THEIR

COUNTRIES' FORCES TO FIGHT THIS SERIOUS INTERNATIONAL THREAT.

THEY WELCOMED THE FACT THAT THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL

CONFERENCE ON DRUG ABUSE AND ILLICIT TRAFFICKING IN JUNE 1987

PROVIDED AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK OUT COMMON STRATEGIES TO

COMBAT THE ILLICIT MANUFACTURE,

OF DRUGS AND RELATED CRIMINAL

TO IMPLEMENT THE CONFERENCE'S

AND RAPIDLY, IN PARTICULAR BY RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY CONSENSUS AT THE

1988 MEETING OF THE COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS AND BY AN

EARLY NEGOTIATION, SIGNATURE AND RATIFICATION OF THE NEW UN

CONVENTION ON ILLICIT TRAFFICKING.

INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

TRAFFICKING AND CONSUMPTION

ACTIVITIES. IT IS NOW ESSENTIAL

RECOMMENDATIONS CONSISTENTLY

IMPLEMENTING THE

INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM CONTINUES TO AFFECT A WIDE RANGE OF COUNTRIES, AND IS A SOURCE OF GREAT CONCERN. THE MINISTERS EXPRESSED THEIR STRONG CONDEMNATION OF ALL FORMS OF INTERNA-

TIONAL TERRORISM AND THEIR RESOLVE TO CO-OPERATE AS CLOSELY

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