Bonn Reviewing Stand Against S. Africa Curbs
Bonn is reappraising its firm opposition to economic sanctions against South Africa after Pretoria’s latest crackdown on anti-apartheid activists, West German President Richard von Weizsaecker said Monday.
“The position in South Africa is deteriorating,” he told a news conference as he wound up a 6-day official visit to Zimbabwe.
“It is the government in South Africa itself that makes it more and more difficult for other countries in the world to go on asking for peaceful dialogue (to end the country’s racial conflict),” he added.
Von Weizsaecker noted that West Germany abstained last week from a vote in the U.N. Security Council on sanctions against South Africa.
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