State Dept. Won’t Recognize S. Africa Plan for Namibia
The South African plan for transferring internal power in Namibia is “null and void” and will not be recognized by the U.S. government, the State Department said today.
The prepared statement read by spokesman Bernard Kalb came after U.S. officials had a chance to examine the plan, announced in South Africa on Thursday, for a unilateral transfer of power. (Story, Page 22.)
The newly established institutions, the statement said, “will have no standing. We have not recognized them in the past and will not do so now.”
The department said that it will continue its efforts to negotiate an internationally acceptable plan for the independence of Namibia, but the only agreed-on basis for this is U.N. Security Council Resolution 435.
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