The co-chairmen of the Eminent Persons Group (EPG)—His Excellency Olusegun Obasanjo, former head of state of Nigeria, and the Honorable Malcolm Fraser, former Prime Minister of Australia— meet with members of the Reagan administration and Congress on July 22 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The Eminent Persons Group was created by leaders of the 49-member Commonwealth of Nations under the Nassau Accord in October 1985 to explore the potential for peaceful resolving the apartheid problem in South Africa. The EPG held months of meetings with a cross-section of South Africans—including private discussions with Nelson Mandela, jailed leader of the African National Congress,...
The co-chairmen of the Eminent Persons Group (EPG)—His Excellency Olusegun Obasanjo, former head of state of Nigeria, and the Honorable Malcolm Fraser, former Prime Minister of Australia— meet with members of the Reagan administration and Congress on July 22 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The Eminent Persons Group was created by leaders of the 49-member Commonwealth of Nations under the Nassau Accord in October 1985 to explore the potential for peaceful resolving the apartheid problem in South Africa. The EPG held months of meetings with a cross-section of South Africans—including private discussions with Nelson Mandela, jailed leader of the African National Congress, and with State President P.W. Botha. Their detailed report was highly critical of the attitude and policies of the racist South African regime. Next month, the EPG Report will be considered by the Commonwealth; in the U.S., the conclusions of the EPG have given added power to the sanctions debate. The July 22 meeting will be the first public meeting of the EPG in the U.S. since it delivered its report.
