SOUTH AFRICA: YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC WILL NOT BE TURNED AWAY IF HE SEEKS EXILE IN SOUTH AFRICA, SAYS PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA

Record ID: 983616

  • Title: SOUTH AFRICA: YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC WILL NOT BE TURNED AWAY IF HE SEEKS EXILE IN SOUTH AFRICA, SAYS PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA
  • Date: 9th May 1999
  • Summary: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA (MAY 9, 1999)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV SOUTH AFRICA PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA ON PRE-ELECTION WALKABOUT (2 SHOTS) 0.10 2. MCU (English) ASKED IF PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC OF YUGOSLAVIA WOULD BE ALLOWED TO COME TO SOUTH AFRICA, MANDELA RESPONDS: "We won't ban anybody and I don't think that what we condemn as his action would justify him being banned from coming to South Africa." (ASKED ABOUT MILOSEVIC STORING HIS WEALTH IN SOUTH AFRICA): "No, this is the first time we heard of this and it is going to depend on what Yugoslavia says because it's not a crime to invest in any country but if that money-that wealth- was illegally aquired and the legitimate government of Yugoslavia wants that wealth to be returned, it's a matter that we would investigate." (ASKED ABOUT THE BOMBING OF THE CHINESE EMBASSY) "Well it's regrettable. That is something that has to be condemned without reservation because it is precisely this type of thing we have been pointing to that although Milosevic has done something that we must condemn in the strongest terms, at the same time NATO was not entitled to make the strike that they are making, especially without the authority of the United Nations." 1.40 3. SLV MANDELA LEAVES AND WALKS TO CAR 1.55 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
  • Country: South Africa
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