Commonwealth summit on South Africa sanctions

Title

Commonwealth summit on South Africa sanctions

Genre

Press conference; Speech

TX Date

5 Aug 1986

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:14:43

Description

Speech by Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, at the close of the Commonwealth summit. He talks about how delegates were not all agreed on sanctions, how UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher was the one who did not agree, how disappointed he is in Thatcher, whether the sanctions will cause mass unemployment in South Africa, how the order of values in South Africa is unacceptable, and how he is happy that the rest of the Commonwealth has agreed but disappointed that the British have let South Africa down.

Contributors

Robert Mugabe

Keywords

Margaret Thatcher; South Africa; UK; Apartheid; International relations; Conferences; Economic sanctions; Zimbabwe; Commonwealth of Nations; Summits (meetings)

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