De Klerk Is Buoyed After Talks in Athens
President Frederik W. de Klerk of South Africa, expressing optimism that his country’s isolation will soon end, arrived Friday in Greece on a European trip aimed at winning support for his reforms.
De Klerk held separate talks with President Constantine Caramanlis and Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis.
At a joint news conference with Mitsotakis, De Klerk said he was pleased with the outcome so far of his 18-day European tour, which began Thursday with a meeting in Paris with French President Francois Mitterrand.
“There has been a surge of new interest in what is happening in South Africa,” De Klerk said.
On his trip, De Klerk is seeking to win support for his reform initiatives and the lifting of European Community economic sanctions.
He also plans stops in Portugal, Belgium, Britain, West Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Italy.
Meanwhile, in Johannesburg, black groups, alarmed by a spate of racial attacks by white ultra-rightists, demanded Friday that the government remove the millions of private guns in white hands.
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