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Article: Prospects for non-racial democracy 'encouraging' despite difficulties. (South Africa) (United Nations developments)
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- September 1, 1993
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Despite continuing difficulties, the prospects for the establishment of a non-racial democracy in South Africa were "most encouraging", Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said on 16 June.
In a statement read on his behalf by Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs James O. C. Jonah at a meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, he pointed out that a provisional agreement had been reached on a date - 27 April 1994 - for the first nonracial multiparty elections. A multiracial transitional executive council was expected to be put in place within weeks. He urged all parties to facilitate the long-awaited establishment of a broad-based government ...