SOUTH AFRICA: BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY JACK STRAW ATTENDING MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR WALTER SISULU CONDEMNS SUICIDE BOMB ATTACKS IN SAUDI ARABIA
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SOUTH AFRICA: BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY JACK STRAW ATTENDING MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR WALTER SISULU CONDEMNS SUICIDE BOMB ATTACKS IN SAUDI ARABIA
- Title: SOUTH AFRICA: BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY JACK STRAW ATTENDING MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR WALTER SISULU CONDEMNS SUICIDE BOMB ATTACKS IN SAUDI ARABIA
- Date: 22nd May 2003
- Summary: (W5) SOWETO, SOUTH AFRICA (MAY 13, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF CHIAWELO, A DISTRICT OF SOWETO; WIDE SOWETO MOUNTAIN OF HOPE SOMOHO 0.11 2. MV YOUNG MEN DOING TRADITIONAL DRUMMING FOR BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY JACK STRAW'S ARRIVAL 0.16 3. MV STRAW AND HIS ENTOURAGE WALK UP HILL 4. MV DURMMERS; LAS WATER TOWER ON THE SOWETO MOUNTAIN OF HOPE; MV STRAW BEING SHOWN A VIEW OF SOWETO TOWNSHIP FROM WATER TOWER 0.34 5. SCU BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER LOOKING ON; MV SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE LOOKING ON; SLV ON-LOOKERS AND JOURNALISTS WATCHING (5 SHOTS) 1.00 6. MV STRAW GIVES CHEQUE FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY PROJECT 1.11 7. SLV YOUNGSTERS PLAYING FOOTBALL ENGLISH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION COACHING CLINIC 1.28 8. MV STRAW AND SOUTH AFRICAN SPORTS MINISTER NGCONDE BALFOUR WALK TOWARDS SOCCER FIELD AND CHAT 1.43 9. SCU REUTERS PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER 1.47 10. MV STRAW GIVING AWAY ENGLISH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION GIFTS TO YOUNG SOCCER PLAYERS 1.57 11. MV FORMER ENGLAND INTERNATIONALS GARY MABBUTT AND VIV ANDERSON 2.02 12. (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) STRAW SAYING: "I condemn these completely unwarranted and indiscriminate acts of terrorism. I send out my condolences to the relatives and friends of those who have been killed in these outrages. I have great sympathy and support to those who have been injured. As you will be aware these outrages went off at three sites. I still have not received full information about the numbers of fatalities or of injuries. But I am told that the number of fatalities will be in low double figures and that the number of people injured that's somewhat over a hundred. We're working closely with the Saudi authorities to ensure that the people who perpetrated these crimes are brought to justice." 3.00 13. MV SCHOOL CHILDREN LOOKING ON 3.05 (W5) PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA (MAY 13, 2003) (REUTERS) 14. WIDE OF PRETORIA CITY HALL WITH FOUNTAINS IN FOREGROUND 3.11 15. MV STRAW SEATED NEXT SOUTH AFRICAN DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER LISTENING TO A CHOIR DURING THE WALTER SISULU MEMORIAL SERVICE IN PRETORIA 3.16 16. WIDE OF SISULU FAMILY LISTENING ON; SCU STRAW LISTENING 3.26 17. HAS INTERIOR OF A FILLED TO CAPACITY CITY HALL 3.30 18. SCU PICTURE PORTRAIT OF WALTER SISULU 3.37 19. SLV DIGNITARIES 3.41 SOWETO, SOUTH AFRICA (MAY 13, 2003) (REUTERS) 20. (SOUNDBITE) (English) JACK STRAW SAYING: "Walter Sisulu was somebody whom I admired hugely as a student and a young man someone who along with others in the ANC, like Nelson Mandela, were symbols of Africa's fight for freedom Against the oppression of Apartheid. And his death marks the end of an era. But this afternoon at the memorial service in Pretoria City Hall, on behalf of the British government and the British people, I shall salute a great fighter for freedom, a great South African and a great citizen of the world." 4.31 21. SLV MEMORIAL SERVICE (2 SHOTS) 4.45 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 6th June 2003 13:00
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- Location: SOWETO AND PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA
- Country: South Africa
- Reuters ID: LVAA3AGTKQX8ODWYMYIKIQ2TBHTG
- Story Text: British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has condemned
suicide bomb attacks in Saudi Arabia which killed at least 10
Americans on Monday.
Speaking during a visit to South Africa, British
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on Tuesday (May 13, 2003) strongly
condemned three overnight suicide bomb attacks on compounds
housing Westerners in Saudi Arabia.
Straw said the bombings were "unwarranted attacks of
terrorism". He offered the British government's condolences
to the families of the deceased and those injured.
Straw, speaking during a tour of Soweto township near
Johannesburg, said he was still awaiting detailed information
on the bomb attacks and on the conditions of the injured in
Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday at least 29 people, including
seven American victims and nine suspected bombers, were killed
in the three attacks in Riyadh on Monday night, which also
injured 194 people.
The attackers drove cars packed with explosives past armed
guards at three compounds before midnight. U.S. Secretary of
State Colin Powell said the attacks bore the stamp of al Qaeda
and its Saudi-born leader Osama bin Laden.
Straw pledged about 100,000 United States dolllars to the
Soweto Mountain of Hope community development and regeneration
project. The project has been receiving funding from the
British High Commission in South Africa for the last two
years. He climbed up a water tower, which forms part of the
project.
Applause filled the grounds of a Soweto school on Tuesday
as more than 200 students welcomed Straw to the township.
Straw, who arrived in South Africa on Monday on a two-day
official tour, visited Nghungunyani High School to inspect a
football-coaching clinic organised by England's football
association.
Accompanied by Sport and Recreation Minister Ngconde
Balfour, Straw watched former England soccer stars Viv
Anderson and Gary Mabbutt coaching young players participating
in the clinic. About 150 pupils took part in the exercise.
Straw said the visit to the clinic formed part of the
build-up to the Bafana-Bafana/England soccer game to be played
in Durban on May 22.
Straw also hailed late African National Congress stalwart
Walter Sisulu
as "the symbol of South Africa's fight against apartheid".
He said Sisulu and former president Nelson Mandela were
beacons of hope to the country and the rest of the world. "I
grew to admire Sisulu hugely while I was a student and a young
man. He was, and still is, a symbol of South Africa's fight
for freedom against apartheid."
Straw attended a memorial service for Sisulu in Pretoria
later in the day.
Sisulu, 90, died at his Johannesburg home on May 5, on
May 5, following a long illness.
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