PHOTO-OP MANDELA re: Lockerbie Air Crash, relationship with Gaddafi, tradional wedding

Record ID: 894628

  • Title: PHOTO-OP MANDELA re: Lockerbie Air Crash, relationship with Gaddafi, tradional wedding
  • Date: 5th April 1999
  • Summary: PHOTO-OP MANDELA re: Lockerbie Air Crash, relationship with Gaddafi, tradional wedding
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  • City: Pretoria
  • Country: South Africa
  • Reuters ID: 99APR05R01
  • Story Text:PHOTO-OP MANDELA AT PRESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE IN PRETORIA re: Lockerbie Air Crash, relationship with Gaddafi, tradional wedding

    00.00.14 CUTAWAYS PRESS
    00.00.36 MANDELA COMING OUT
    00.00.50 ...the 2 Lybian suspects were delivered at the UN at about 12:00 today, and they're now on their way to the Netherlands...
    00.01.30 ..it is also necessary to put the matter in context and not to think this is the achievement of 1 man. I was asked in 1992...
    00.02.29 ...they all accepted the idea of a trial by a third State...
    00.03.01 ...the breakthrough is not only due to the President of SA but it's a team...
    00.04.22 ...I was confident right from the beginning that President Gaddavi would keep his word because my experience with him is that when he gives an undertaking, he keeps it & that approach & confidence in him has now been fully justified...
    00.04.57 HAVE BEEN APPROACHED BY PRESIDENT OF YUGOSLAVIA TO INTERVENE IN THIS MATTER
    00.05.04 I am not keen to intervene in any other issue because these issues need your full-time concentration and the problems in SA are such that we cannot afford that.
    00.05.44 ...I refuse to adopt the questionable of many people who say that you allow a man, you ask a man to help you during a time when you're all alone & eventually with the support of the entire international community South Africans fought a battle which they now have won - that we should now a country that helped us to win, we should be advised by the friends of our enemies when we were under Apartheid - they must now advise us and say, do away with Gaddavi and I don't share that morality...
    00.06.34 ...generally speaking I will not abandone a man who has helped us when we were all alone that is why I have the highest respect for President Gaddavi & I have respect for Iran.
    00.06.56 ...President Gaddavi has always been friendly to us. When I came out of jail...
    00.07.49 re: TRADITIONAL WEDDING - INTRODUCTION OF GRACA TO THE THEMBUS - EXPLAINING THE CUSTOMS - ROYAL HOUSES
    00.08.39 CUTAWAYS
    00.09.32 EXTERIOR PRESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE
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