ABSTRACT: The resolution presented to the European Parliament asks the EEC and the member states to lift the sanctions against the Republic of South Africa, to start a programme of aid for the economic and democratic development of this country, and addresses an appeal to the National African Congress and to Nelson Mandela, urging them to the return to the non-violent roots of their movement.

The European Parliament

- considering the evolution of the Situation in Southern Africa and especially in South Africa;

- considering the great democratization effort shown by the South African government, its courageous tolerant and unilateral initiatives which dramatically oppose it to the historical heritage of the apartheid regime and to the forces which still refer to it;

- considering that the African National Congress, the main opposition force to this government, confirms its violent political and military options, thus becoming an indirect but very strong aid to the reactionary forces and to the maintenance of the "status quo";

- considering the entire African context, where dictatorial forces, one-party regimes, state violence and the complete absence of the legal state still triumph, additional but relevant causes for the death due to starvation, misery and violence of millions of people each year;

- considering that South Africa, in its current process of reform, must be helped in proving that the choice of a legal state, of a

democratic perspective, of non-violent methods to regulate and govern historical conflicts, and to overcome and cancel apartheid from a juridical, cultural, social point of view, has the complete support of the international community;

- asks the European Community and the member states to immediatly begin a process of complete revocation of the sanctions, of immediate aid to the development of the economy, the democratization and the stability of the South African Republic and society; a process which converges with the one already successfully started in the South African Republic, if this will be continued;

- addresses an urgent and strong appeal to the African National Congress and to its moral leader Nelson Mandela, Sakharov prize of the European Community, asking them to return to the non-violent historical and Gandhian roots of their movement, and to cancel any adhesion to a violent means for political struggle, from which only further tragedies for the South African people can arise;

- charges the President of the European Parliament to transmit the present resolution to the Commission, the Council and the governments of the member states.

The first signers

PANNELLA, KLEPSH, VISENTINI, BAGET BOZZO, LATAILLED, HASBURG, JANSEN VAN RAY, MATTINA, SCOTT-HOPKINS, CHANTERIE, DEFRAIGNE, CARNITI, CASSIDY, ROBLES-PIQUER, WIJSENBEEK, FORMIGONI, HERMAN, VON WCHMAR, MELIS, TARADASH, SUAREZ GONZALEZ, CALVO ORTEGA, FERRI, PRAG, GAIBISSO, POETTERING, KELLET-BOWMAN, PESMAZOGLOU, CASSANMANGNAGO, NICHOLSON, MUSCARDINI, BAUR, BINDI, CHIABRANDO, THEATO, LAGAKOS, CASINI, MCMILLAN-SCOTT, VON STAUFFENBERG, O'HAGAN, PISONI, HADJIGEURGIU, BEAZLEY, TURNER, MICHELINI, VON WOGAU, DALSASS, SISO-CRUELLAS, REDING, MUNCH, MENRAD, AGLIETTA, BOURLANGES, QUISHOUDT, LULLING, HOPPENSTEDT, KEPPELHOSS, RINSCHE, BOEGE, PERSCHAU, STAVROU, PIRKL, ROMERA I ALCAZAR, VALVERDE-LOPEZ, MUELLER, FUNK, BETTINI, FERRER, MERZ, FRIEDERICH, LLORCA VILAPLANA, MOOREHOUSE, LA PERGOLA, COLOMBO, FORLANI, PISONI F., LUSTER.