Stalling of talks at the Lancaster House Conference

Title

Stalling of talks at the Lancaster House Conference

Genre

News report; Press conference

TX Date

12 Oct 1979

Year of production

1979

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Duration

00:02:38

Description

Nick Peters reports on confusion at the Lancaster House Conference on Zimbabwe Rhodesia over the wording of the Patriotic Front statement on the constitution, and Chairman Lord Carrington (Peter Carington)'s decision not to accept the statement until it is clarified. With PF spokesman, Eddison Zvobgo on Lord Carrington’s inability to understand their position; Rhodesian Foreign Minister David Mukome criticising the PF’s procrastination tactic.

Contributors

Nick Peters; David Mukome; Eddison Zvobgo

Keywords

Conferences; Political reform; Zimbabwe; Rhodesia; Patriotic Front; Lancaster House Conference; Peacebuilding; Peter Carington; Black African peoples; Constitutions; Nationalists; Democratization

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