SWITZERLAND: RHODESIA CONFERENCE - BRITISH CHAIRMAN SAYS HE SOON HOPES TO CALL 'FULL PLENARY SESSION'.
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1061753
SWITZERLAND: RHODESIA CONFERENCE - BRITISH CHAIRMAN SAYS HE SOON HOPES TO CALL 'FULL PLENARY SESSION'.
- Title: SWITZERLAND: RHODESIA CONFERENCE - BRITISH CHAIRMAN SAYS HE SOON HOPES TO CALL 'FULL PLENARY SESSION'.
- Date: 12th November 1976
- Summary: 1. SCU PAN: Rhodesian black nationalist leader, Robert Mugabe and party walking into building, Geneva, Switzerland. 0.11 2. CU PAN: Rhodesian black nationalist leader, Joshua Nkomo and party walking into building. 0.21 3. CU: cameraman. 0.24 4. SCU: Rhodesian conference chairman Mr. Ivor richard of Britain, walks to microphone and addresses gathering. 0.42 5. Rhodesian Foreign Minister Pieter Van Der Byl speaking. 0.54 "We are just seeing the Patriotic Front delegation, I shall be seeing the other delegations this afternoon, I hope we are in a position soon to call a plenary, indeed I could hope that it will be within the next day or so. Think you." "Awfully little, we've had a meeting, it's been useful and we're going to have another one tomorrow, but there's nothing else that one could tell you at the moment." The two-week old conference was in difficulties from Wednesday last week (3 November) on the issue of deciding a date for the independence of Rhodesia. The four african nationalist leaders attending the talks had been insisting this should be settled before going on to other business. Initials RH/MF/PNG/0145 EUROVISION TELERECORDING Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
- Country: Switzerland
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