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Great appreciation was expressed by the meeting
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to the Women's International Democratic Federation
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for its role as support in mobilizing public opinion,
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for the struggle of women,
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for the struggle of the women and peoples of South Africa,
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for their liberation, their contribution to the emancipation of women,
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and the conservation of national independence,
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progress and democracy in Africa and the world.
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The meeting also expressed appreciation to the Pan-African Women's Organization,
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for its fight for the rights and dignity of African women,
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and their contribution to unity of African women
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in their struggle against racism and colonialism.
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The conference showed very clearly that the International Women's Movement
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against racism and apartheid, in the south of the African continent,
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is gaining its hope, that it is even more strongly
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based on mass organizations of working people.
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The conference showed the militant offensive spirit of broad democratic forces,
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including women, demanding an end to racism in Southern Africa.
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Having surveyed areas of great expansion in the world today,
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the round table condemned imperialist intransigence
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in the field of detente, peaceful co-coexistence, and armament,
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especially youth-led armament.
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The conference charged the danger of the neutron bomb,
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and its-- its participants urged the women of Africa
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to join in the struggle to defend the neutron bomb,
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and in the general struggle for complete disarmament and for peace in the world.
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The meeting called all the women and, indeed, all the people of Africa
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and the world to co-- cooperate
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in their-- in their effort to support the National Liberation Movement
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in southern Africa, [[?]] ANC
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and the independent states of Africa in their struggles
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against the remnants of imperialism, for a life of peace and social justice--
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