Word: namibia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Modest progress on Namibia...
...Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar and officials of Prime Minister P.W. Botha's government announced that they had hammered out a detailed agreement on long-deadlocked negotiations over one of southern Africa's most intractable problems: achieving independence for the South Africa-controlled territory of Namibia. Declared Foreign Minister Roelof F. Botha: "We have today resolved all the outstanding issues...
Eagleburger also hinted that the U.S. would soon intensify efforts toward a breakthrough on one of Africa's most intractable problems: independence for Namibia, a vast, mineral-rich territory controlled by neighboring South Africa. President Reagan, he said, was prepared to use "his full influence" to promote a compromise that would involve the withdrawal of South Africa from Namibia in return for the removal of 30,000 Cuban troops from Marxist Angola...
...more immediate interest to diplomats was Eagleburger's suggestion that a compromise on Namibia was near. Ironically, it was the Reagan Administration that helped to stall talks on autonomy for the territory's 1 million inhabitants last year when it linked the proposed Cuban pullout from Angola to a South African withdrawal from Namibia. South Africa had not originally insisted on the Cuban withdrawal, but it subsequently fastened on the U.S. position as a delaying tactic. Last week Eagleburger fell back on the concept of "reciprocity" in the negotiations, a code word for a carefully timed agreement...
...Cuban troop withdrawal, but South Africa's frequent raids into Angolan territory in search of SWAPO rebels. Whether the talks will contribute to a settlement is another matter. The bleak assessment from General Constand Viljoen, commander of the 20,000 South African troops fighting against SWAPO in Namibia, is that his occupying forces will not be withdrawn from the territory this year...