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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)
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