adminThe Herald 10 January 1970
As a blueprint for peace in Southern Africa, the widely acclaimed Lusaka Manifesto has apparently been relegated to the archives.
Force is now the only way to deal with white minority regimes, the meeting here of Foreign Ministers of East and Central Africa (with the exception of Malawi) has clearly decided.
At the end of this month the Heads of State in the region will be asked, at their sixth summit in Khartoum, to endorse the Foreign Ministers view.
Although the main purpose of these meetings has been to achieve regional unity through economic co-operation, political matters have always seemed to dominate.
The final communique skirted over economic questions, and made no worthwhile disclosures, with the statement merely that a number of recommendations would be submitted to the Heads of State.
The rest of the communique was taken up with general political questions in which the conference reviewed “the deteriorating situation in Southern Africa with grave dismay”.
The conference claimed that “by their outright rejection” of the Lusaka Manifesto the South African and Portuguese Governments had “closed the door to the possibility of a peaceful solution” to the problems of Southern Africa.
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