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To: hunchback who wrote (32766)	4/29/1999 6:30:00 AM
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4/29/99 - Yeltsin and Mandela sign partnership agreement <Picture> MOSCOW, Apr 29, 1999 (AP Worldstream via COMTEX) -- Boris Yeltsin and Nelson Mandela signed a declaration Thursday pledging to boost economic ties in areas such as gold and diamond production and to improve political contacts between Russia and South Africa. ""The declaration we signed opens a new stage in cooperation between Russia and South Africa,"" Yeltsin said after the talks. ""Russia and South Africa have huge potential for that."" Mandela said it was especially important to develop closer economic links because the two nations control a huge share of the world"s gold and diamond production. ""Our nations have the greatest quantities of gold, diamonds and other precious minerals, and therefore it"s very important for us to cooperate economically and politically,"" he said during the Kremlin ceremony. Mandela agreed, saying, ""It"s in the interests of both countries to cooperate to strengthen the links between us."" Mandela, in Moscow until Friday, was accompanied by Foreign Minister Alfred Nzo and South African business leaders -- among them representatives of the De Beers diamond cartel. De Beers has been in talks with its Russian partners for several months to develop new diamond deposits near the Arctic Ocean port of Arkhangelsk. In a statement after the talks, Mandela thanked Russia for supporting the struggle against apartheid. ""We"ve come here to thank you for supporting us,"" he told the smiling Yeltsin. Relations between Russia and South Africa have improved considerably since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and Mandela was elected president in the nation"s first multi-race elections in 1994. Yeltsin also noted that the current warm relations have ""deep historic roots that go back to the times of struggle against apartheid."" The Russian president said that both nations have a common vision of global affairs, and, in particular, resent the ""unipolar world"" -- the staple Kremlin reference to the United States" perceived global domination. ""My friend is also against the unipolar world in which one states dictates its will to others,"" Yeltsin said, addressing Mandela. ""We are against attempts to ensure security of some for the sake of others."" In their declaration, Yeltsin and Mandela said they were committed to strengthening the United Nations" role in global affairs, and spoke in support of existing nuclear non-proliferation agreements as well as other arms control pacts. Russian and South African officials also signed an agreement on cooperation in the cultural field. After his visit to Russia, Mandela is scheduled to travel to Hungary, Pakistan and China. Copyright 1999 Associated Press, All rights reserved. -0- By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV