U.N. man among crash victims
NZPA-Reuter New York The death in the air crash yesterday of a senior United Nations official concerned with Namibia cast a shadow over yesterday’s signing of accords designed to bring independence to the South African-ruled territory.
Bernt Carlsson, aged 50, a Swede who was United Nations Commissioner for Namibia and formerly general-secretary of the Socialist International, was aboard the Pan American World Airways jumbo jet that crashed in Scotland. The South African
Foreign Minister Roelof (Pik) Botha arrived in New York for the accords signing aboard an earlier Pan Am flight from London. The United States, which brokered the agreements, organised the ceremony, to be presided over by the United States
Secretary of State, George Shultz. A United States spokeswoman said it would go ahead as planned with the addition of a minute of silence in tribute to Mr Carlsson, once a special emissary of late Swedish Prime Minister, Olof Palme.
The landmark agreements provide for the phased withdrawal of some 50,000 Cuban troops from Angola by July, 1991, and an April 1, 1989, start-up date for a 10-year-old United Nations independence plan for Namibia.
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