Commonwealth summit on South Africa sanctions - Thatcher speaks to press

Title

Commonwealth summit on South Africa sanctions - Thatcher speaks to press

Genre

Press conference

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:20:39

Description

Press conference with UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher on the Commonwealth summit on South Africa and apartheid. She talks about the summit, what the delegates decided, Britain’s commitment to the Commonwealth, the more in-depth sanctions called for by the other members, and why she did not agree. She then takes questions on her reasons for not going along with the other measures put forward, how she expects and wants apartheid to end, whether she thinks sanctions would bring internal change, and why, for the sake of the Commonwealth, she did not join in with the sanctions.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher

Keywords

Margaret Thatcher; South Africa; UK; Apartheid; Conferences; Economic sanctions; Anti-apartheid movements; Commonwealth of Nations; Liberation movements

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