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South Africa: President FW de Klerk Address to the South African Parliament (release of Mandela & the way forward for South Africa) ["negotiation the highest priority. The aim is a totally new and just constitutional dispensation in which every inhabitant will enjoy equal rights"] [declassified Jul 2017]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/3171 f324
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 15pp
Themes: Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (Africa), Foreign policy (Central & Eastern Europe), Commonwealth (South Africa), Media, British relations with the Soviet Union, British policy towards South Africa