    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 16 (Monday, April 25, 1994)]
    [Pages 850-851]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Statement on the Agreement on Elections in South Africa

    April 19, 1994

        I warmly welcome today's agreement among the South African
    Government, the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party
    to renounce violence and to bring Inkatha into the nation's first non-
    racial elections next week. Throughout the historic process of change in
    South Africa, the leaders of that country have shown great courage and a
    capacity for compromise. Today's bold action by Chief Buthelezi, Nelson
    Mandela, and F.W. de Klerk is one more act of collective statesmanship
    that bodes well for the prospect of free and fair elections in South
    Africa and for the success of the future Government of National Unity.
        What happens in South Africa is of vital importance to us all. South
    Africa has the

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    potential to alter the world trend toward greater ethnic division and
    establish a powerful model for democratic reform and national
    reconciliation. We will remain steadfast in our support for South Africa
    as it makes this difficult and historic transition to nonracial
    democracy.