By Robin Renwick
On 2 February 1990, FW de Klerk made a speech that modified the historical past of South Africa. 9 days later, the realm watched as Nelson Mandela walked unfastened from the Viktor Verster legal. in the course of those occasions was once Lord Renwick, Margaret Thatcher’s envoy to South Africa, who grew to become a private good friend of Nelson Mandela, FW de Klerk and leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, appearing as a depended on middleman among them. He warned PW Botha opposed to army assaults on neighbouring international locations, in conferences he likens to ‘calling at the führer in his bunker’. He invited Mandela to his first meal in a cafe for twenty-seven years, rehearsing him for his assembly with Margaret Thatcher – and instructed Thatcher that she mustn't ever interrupt him. Their dialogue went on goodbye that the British press in Downing road began chanting ‘Free Nelson Mandela’.
In this remarkable insider’s account, Renwick attracts on his diaries of the time, in addition to formerly unpublished fabric from the international place of work and Downing highway documents. He paints a vibrant, affectionate, real-life portrait of Mandela as a wily and innovative political chief bent on out-manoeuvring either adversaries and a few of his personal colleagues in pursuit of a calm end result.
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Appendix 3 presents tables which gather together Security Council resolution provisions and other UN documents that aid analysis of the Council’s practice with respect to the rule of law and the UN sanctions system. 2 Towards a pragmatic rule of law model for UN sanctions We are here to strengthen and adapt this great institution, forged 55 years ago in the crucible of war, so that it can do what people expect of it in the new era – an era in which the rule of law must prevail. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan1 [W]hile prescribing norms and standards for national or international conduct, the UN Security Council must scrupulously accept those norms for itself.
121–139 at 125. Timothy A. O. Endicott, ‘The Impossibility of the Rule of Law’ (1999) 19 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 1–18. Judith N. Shklar, ‘Political Theory and the Rule of Law’, in Allan C. ), The Rule of Law: Ideal or Ideology (Toronto: Carswell, 1987), pp. 1–16 at 1. Margaret Jane Radin, ‘Reconsidering the Rule of Law’ (1989) 69 Boston University LR 781–819 at 781. Hilary Charlesworth, ‘Whose Rule? ), Globalisation and the Rule of Law, pp. 83–95 at 83 (noting that others have described the concept thus).
792 (30 November 1992), para. 12. For further details of that case, see David Cortright and George A. Lopez, The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2000), pp. 135–145. Unfortunately, however, Cortright and Lopez do not distinguish between the non-mandatory character of the measures requested in the Cambodian instance and the mandatory nature of the other examples of UN sanctions to which they refer, which are all imposed under Chapter VII of the UN Charter.