PHOTO-OP: NELSON MANDELA WITH HIS DOCTORS re: State of his health; Burundi Peace Process, Middle East Crisis, American Elections

Record ID: 880900

  • Title: PHOTO-OP: NELSON MANDELA WITH HIS DOCTORS re: State of his health; Burundi Peace Process, Middle East Crisis, American Elections
  • Date: 24th November 2000
  • Summary: PHOTO-OP: NELSON MANDELA WITH HIS DOCTORS re: State of his health; Burundi Peace Process, Middle East Crisis, American Elections
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  • City: Houghton
  • Country: South Africa
  • Reuters ID: 00NOV24R01
  • Story Text:PHOTO-OP: NELSON MANDELA WITH HIS DOCTORS re: State of Madiba's health; Burundi Peace Process, Middle East Crisis, American Presidential Elections

    00.00.45 ARRIVAL MANDELA - OUT CAR
    00.01.21 MANDELA WALKING OUT WITH DR MIKE ? MANDELA'S PHYSICIAN & PROF KEW CARDIOLOGIST These are the men who decide when I leave this world.
    00.02.24 DR MIKE INFORMING PRESS ABOUT MANDELA'S HEALTH - M,ADIBA IS WELL .. ON A ROUTINE EXAMINATION DISCOVERED IRREGULARITY IN BLOOD
    00.03.53 TUBERCULOSIS IS OK - LUNGS LOOKING GOOD - NEUROLOGISTS LOOKING AT HIS PROSTRATE - NEED TO DEFINE WHAT THE PROBLEM IS
    00.04.52 MR MANDELA REMAINS VERY WELL - ABNORMAL FINDING - TO ESTABLISH WHAT THE NATURE OF THE ILLNESS IS IF THERE IS ANY - HEALTH REMAINS EXCELLENT
    00.05.38 FOUND A RAISED PROTEIN - INDICATES SOME FORM OF INFECTION - CAN'T DIAGNOSE WHAT IT IS
    00.06.58 MANDELA: One of the most encouraging things they have told me is that I man not going to die tonight, so I can carry on with my programme.
    00.08.04 WIDE SET-UP - JEFF HOLDING MICROPHONE
    00.08.11 MANDELA My attitude is always to dictate to anything leading up to death to say, I determine when I will die. NO THREAT TO MADIBA'S LIFE.
    00.09.41 CUTAWAYS PRESS
    00.10.42 GOING TO ARUSHA ON SUNDAY
    00.11.46 MANDELA: The 19 political parties have all signed & now handing to the Secretary-General of the United Nations because he has now to attend to the implimentation of the agreement that we signed - GOING THERE TO LAUNCH THE IMPLIMENTATION MONITORING COMMISSION & TO BRIEF THEM ON CONFERENCE IN PARIS WITH CHIRAC
    00.12.53 and the poverty in Burundi stares you in the face & we want to transform the economy of that country into an industrial economy - CONFERENCE OF INTERNATIONAL DONORS - WORLD BANK GIVING 50 MILLION DOLLARS FOR CONFERENCE
    00.13.59 THE REBEL GROUPS ARE INSISTING ON SPEAKING TO THE PRESIDENT OF BURUNDI - THEY'VE ASKED ME NOT TO GO ON WITH THE CONFERENCE BUT I HAVE REFUSED When I was asked to be fascilitator you were invited to join the 19 political parties but you did not do so and so I am not going to wait for you; you are actually not a freedom movement, you are not attacking military installations you are attacking innocent civilians .. And I am not going to wait for you to continue slaughtering people - that conference is going to go on.
    00.15.04 .. I have said to President Clinton etc. that there has been no progress for more than 25 years in the search for peace in the Middle East because non of the Western powers are really interested in peace in the Middle East; what they are interested in is who is going to have the honour having brought about peace in the Middle East. The USA & Britain usually act together; France take a separate initiative and Russia also takes a separate initiative & I say as long as you do that, there will never be peace. You must unite together seeing the Palestinians and the Israelis.
    00.16.27 I am against a meeting before we actually outline the fundamental principles on which negotiations can take place; there are three principles which must be observed: Israel must withdraw from all the Arab territories they conquered during the Six Day War - Goal Heights from Lebanon & Gaza, the Arab states must make a clear declaration that they recognise the existence of the State of Israel withing secure boundaries - it is the Arab states that started the war ..
    00.17.28 There must be an international commission which enjoys the confidence of the UN, Palestine & Israel to monitor the implimentation of that declaration. Unless that is done there can never be a forward movement. Some parties have asked me to mediate. I don't think there is any necessity for me to do so. .. I think if these countries can come together there will be no need for a third party to negotiate.
    00.18.28 ANY COUNSEL FOR BUSH OR AL GORE? LAUGHTER The American Election is not just for the Americans, the American President immediately becomes the leader of the West
    00.19.52 END
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