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FM FCO

TO PRIORITY UKREP BRUSSELS

TELNO 172

OF 041345Z MAY 88

HUD 243/8

AND TO PRIORITY BANGKOK, JAKARTA, MANILA, KUALA LUMPUR

161563 MDLOAN 7275

AND TO PRIORITY SINGAPORE, BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, EC POSTS, HANOI AND TO PRIORITY UKMIS NEW YORK, WASHINGTON, MOSCOW, TOKYO AND TO PRIORITY HONG KONG

HONG KONG FOR GOVERNOR

PART TWO OF THREE

THEY

THE

EC/ASEAN MINISTERIAL MEETING, DUESSELDORF, 2-3 MAY 1988 WITH REGARD TO SOUTHERN AFRICA THE MINISTERS REJECTED UNEQUIVOCALLY THE SYSTEM OF APARTHEID WHICH VIOLATES HUMAN DIGNITY AND REITERATED THEIR CALL FOR ITS TOTAL ABOLITION. 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, 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

THE STRONGLY TO REPEAL THE IMPOSED MEASURES WITHOUT DELAY. 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 THE INDEPENDENCE OF NAMIBIA WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY ON THE BASIS OF THE INALIENABLE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH UN RESOLUTION 435. 12. INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM CONTINUES TO AFFECT A WIDE RANGE OF.

THE MINISTERS COUNTRIES, AND IS A SOURCE OF GREAT CONCERN.

FORMS OF REITERATED THEIR STRONG CONDEMNATION OF ALL INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AND THEIR RESOLVE TO COOPERATE AS CLOSELY AS POSSIBLE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THIS MENACE. THEY ALSO UNDERLINED THE IMPORTANCE OF FINDING POLITICAL SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS WHICH FORM THE ROOTS OF TERRORISM.

13. NARCOTICS

DRUG TRAFFICKING AND ABUSE CONSTITUTE AN INCREASING THREAT TO THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY.

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