International bid to cut off S.A. oil
NZPA-Reuter Paris The international movement against apartheid hoped to enlist oil exporters and shippers to try to Cut off South Africa’s energy supply, a spokesman for a special United Nations conference said yesterday. Mohamed Sahnoun, spokesman for the United Nations conference on sanctions against South Africa, said representatives of the 123country conference hoped to
meet at the end of the year members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, other oil producers and “various countries who ship oil under flags of convenience.” Liberia, Cyprus. Singapore and Panama regularly allow oil tankers to register with them for a fee. That allows shippers to fly those countries’ flags and avoid labour laws and the foreign policies of their home countries.
The conference, held under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, is expected to adopt proposed economic sanctions against South Africa aimed at pressuring Pretoria into abandoning apartheid. The idea for a boycott by petroleum shippers and producers is not new. It was first suggested about two years ago at a meeting of the Organisation of African Unity. '
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