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Speci i eport Oa Or€ ece s , P o 7 the DIPlOMATIC _ _ B 1.. E”1”IE J DEDICATED TO SERVING THE UNITED NATIONS _____ AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY nillil _____________ UFt.F(ATF % ORFJ) BULLETIN 1 1.t-r1 _____ Rnb rj C. Lnn*ft. 5a rot r w... ..i .. —. a — — ... — —.. -. . — _ _ —.—v • e • n'r t oot, the Organization has decided 10 convene a World Tourism Conference. At a press conference, Lonati said that the Con- ference would be held at Manila in September 1980. S 1.00 r r eop March 19, 1979 Negotiations Near Collapse UN Pushes SG's Election Plan As so often before in the tor- tuous history of the negotiations On the future of Namibia, the carefuliy drawn independence plan endorsed by the U.N. Security Council last September teetered on the brink of collapse as the U.S. and four other Western nations proposed yet another New York conference, in a desperate bid to stave off disaster. This time the omens were grimmer than before, with the mineral-rich territory's South African rulers apparently determined not to give another inch and the SWAPO guerrilla movement quite. as adamant on its side. Namibja Adversaries Criticise U.N. Plan Short of a near-miracle.. th 311 1fl !epefl Te r f r acceptable to the U.N. appeared headed for an ignominjou end. South Afriean Prime Min J , ,- force which is one of the key elements. At press time. Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, British Foreign Secretary David Owen. Canadjan External Affairs Minister Donald Jamieson and U.S. Mission to the U.N. were representatives of the five so- called front-line states: Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tan- zania and Zambia. UnUl a final communique, no one was willing to rule out the resurrection fo the settlement plan. which involves the dispatch of a 7,500-man U.N. army and more than 1,000 civilian ofljcjajs to the Namibia to supervise and control pre-independence elec- tions. After President Carter's experience of Egyptian-Israeli peacemaking, in which he ap- pears to have snatched victory from the jaws f near-certain defeat, even the most pessimistic U.N. diplomats wanted to hedge eir ets. Outcome of Negotiations BP0005 89 negotiations were seldom better illustrated than by that .New York ,, New York CiR
Pieter W. Botha and Foreign Minister Roelof F. Botha con- tinued to make hostile statements about Secretary-General Waldheim's proposals for im plementing the nationhood plan, and SWAPO President Sam Nujoma çritized the proposed composition of the U.N. security A draft Convention on Inter- national Multimodal Transport has been completed after more than five years of preparatory work under the aegis of the United Nations Conference On Trade and Development (UN- CTADL The draft Convention will be submitted to a United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries. to be convened in November. According to M.E Selvig. of Norway. Chairman of the Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee for all the six sessions held since 1973. the draft Con- vention constitutes a good basis for the work of the forthcoming Conference of Plenipotentiaries The draft Convention contains six substantive parts dealing with general provisions on the scope of the Convention; the issue, con- tent, and evidentiary effect of the multimodal transport documents: liability of the sioner for Namibia and Spec- ial Representative of the Sec. retary-Generat for Namibia. the deputy foreign ministers of France and West Germany prepared for a crucial face-off with Roelof Botha. Also scheduled to join the talks at the Transport multimodal transport operator for loss; damage or delay to the goods entrusted to him; liability of the consignor of the goods: claims and actions in connection with recovery for loss, damage. or delay of goods. and miscellaneous provisions. Selvig ‘observes that th.e in- creased utilization of cargoes in the past decade -- the use of containers or pallets that allow door-to-door transport without the need to break bulk at fran- shipment points -- has given a strong impetus o the growth of multimodal transport operations The new Con cntiori. according to Selvig. woutd establish an international legal regime to which the contracts and documents devised by com- mercial interests would have to conform. The Convention would also set international legally binding (Co”tnued on Paqe 20) Limjis Home, Pact1ess ' the very day the president obtained Egypt and Israel's agreement to his proposals, putting a treaty pretty well in the bag. But the tee1in persisted in U.N. circles that, in the Namibia case, South Africa was never 100 per cent committed to ac- ceptance of the Western plan, while SWAPO might prefer a continuation of the bush war to a test of its political strength in free, U.N.- supervised elections in the territory. As a press conference in Johannesburg on his return from a protracted visit to Europe, the South African foreign minister said his white minority gover- nmeht was not prepared to renegotiate the settlement proposals. Military ActIon Intensifies Botha also questioned the usefulness of the New York talks. Meanwhile, according to the Angola defense ministry, a Soutk African force of infantry and armor, with air support, penetrated 10 miles inside Angola from Namihia in a new strike against an aIIe ed SWAP() base in this neighuoring black African state. Bombs and rockets were used in support of the ground action in the Cahama area, the ministry said South Africa Objects ToSWAPO Base Proposal South Africa's principal ob- lConttnuea on Page 20) 1. . UNCTAD Drafts Meeting On Multimodal diplomatic_ ouc ,j 13' l' twniu The United Nations Association of New York sponsored a public forum on “The United Nations Today and Tomorrow.” British Ambassador lvor Richard the guest speaker. Alas for Richard, if the polls are to be believed his U.N. term may be limited. If the Conservative party wins the upcoming elec- tions, Richard, a Laborite, would be replaced, Richards boss, Foreign Secretary David Owen, visiting China next month, his first visit to Peking in that capacity. Delegates saddened by the death of Per Haekkerup, who attended several sessions of the General Assembly as foreign minister of Denmark and was one of first Western leaders to call for action to tem South Africa's racist excesses. Juliet Ofori-Mankata of Ghana, Remi Puissegur from France, and Kate McAnaney of the United States chosen to • rng the Japanese peacebell at the U.N. heralding the spring • equinox on Earth Day. John McConnell, founder of the annual celebration, reports that 900 city schools lined up to par- ticoaje. Juiet, 11, Remi, 9, and Kate, 11, attended an Earth Day press conference, along with Jean Young, cochairman of the program. Ignoring a Security Council appeal, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted in favor of sending an American observer team To Rhodesia to monitor those April 20 elections in the Former British colony. Islamic leaders in Iran accused of instigating attacks on the Bahai rehgious community, in a ..statement by Victor de Arao 1 o Bahai represenifative at the U.N. The Bahal has NC,.O consultative status. Eric Gairy, whose interest in UFO's got the U.N. involved in the phenomena, deposed in a bloodless coup while he was in New York for talks with Secretary-General Waldheim, Gairy, prime minister of Grenada at the time, called Waldheim to cancel their meeting, pleading “events in my country.” Later, he asked the U.S. and Britain to help put down the uprising. Tc o new permanent representatives: Noel Sinclair of u,'ana and tJmberto Larocca of Italy. Larocca Egyptian. :)Or Former Ugandan permanent representative Grace Ibingira, no . a U.N. consultant, appealed in a statement to the Uganda army to revolt against Idi Amin. Ibingira, who was imprisoned by the former government, urged his compatriots to make sure “such tyranny shall never come again to our land.” (C,,n n,ed on P39e 2) - — To Receive Please Enclose Payment Rates Per Year DIPLOMATIC WORLD BULLETIN by Mail . $25inU.S.A. $40 Overseas l20WalISl.,N.yNy11 , Q05 NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE - - U