UNITED KINGDOM: BRITISH PRIME MINISTER JAMES CALLAGHAN SAYS COMMONWEALTH HAS FOUND LARGE MEASURE OF AGREEMENT ON SOUTHERN AFRICA SITUATION AND CONDEMNS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN UGANDA.

Record ID: 338438

  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: BRITISH PRIME MINISTER JAMES CALLAGHAN SAYS COMMONWEALTH HAS FOUND LARGE MEASURE OF AGREEMENT ON SOUTHERN AFRICA SITUATION AND CONDEMNS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN UGANDA.
  • Date: 15th June 1977
  • Summary: 1. GV ZOOM IN British Prime Minister James Callaghan enters room and sits down at table 0.08 2. CU Callaghan speaking 1.12 3. GV PAN Newsmen 1.17 4. CU ZOOM OUT TO SV Callaghan speaking 3.00 TRANSCRIPT: SEQ. 2: CHALLAGHAN: "On the question of southern Africa, as you will see from the communique in due course, there is considerable commo
  • Embargoed: 30th June 1977 13:00
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  • Location: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA4EZV63JLQMLLRR716K67QUMVM
  • Story Text: At the end of the Commonwealth Conference in London on Wednesday (15 June) a communique was issued which included a condemnation of the "systematic disregard of the sanctity of human life and massive violations of basic human rights in Uganda." According to the London Daily Telegraph newspaper this breaks the double standard whereby the Commonwealth has regularly condemned racialism by white government in Africa, but has remained silent on the atrocities of Ugandan President Idi Amin. President Amin was not attacked personally in the communique, a decision taken after a close-door debate between those for and against naming him. Earlier in the day the Conference hosts, British Prime Minister James Callaghan, told newsmen that a large measure of agreement had been reached on how to cope with the problems of southern Africa.
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