BP says it sold Smith oil
NZPA-Reuter London The 51 per cent Stateowned company, British Petroleum, admitted yesterday it had contir.aed to supply oil indirectly to Rhodesia until September 15, this year, despite British and United Nations sanctions. Until now BP had categjiically denied reports published in the “Sunday Times” and the “Observer” newspapers that it had supplied oil to the breakaway British colony. The reports said, under an agreement reached in 1976, oil destined for Rhodesia had been -delivered to the South African com" pany, Sasol, which had then shipped it across the Rhodesian border. In a statement published ii. the “Sunday Times” yesterday, BP said the agreement had been concluded by its South African affiliate, BP South Africa, without clearance from the British Government.
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