World IN BRIEF : IVORY COAST : De Klerk Meets Houphouet-Boigny
South African President Frederik W. de Klerk was greeted by hundreds of singing children when he arrived for a meeting with President Felix Houphouet-Boigny in Yamoussoukro. South Africa and Ivory Coast do not have formal diplomatic relations, but they do have close trade ties. A front-page editorial in the government-controlled daily Fraternite Matin appeared to rule out closer diplomatic relations for now. It said normalized relations with other African nations awaits freedom for black nationalist Nelson R. Mandela and the end of apartheid.
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