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FILM SHOWS DELEGATES SITTING AT THE CONFERENCE TABLE, SIGNING TAKING PLACE, SHORT WELCOMING SPEECH BY P.M. MUGABE, ANSWER BY PRESIDENT ML ATOVIC, HAND-SHAKING AND TOASTS BEING DRUNK.





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DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE STORY, I WAS INSTRUCTED BY KEVIN HAMILTON IN JOHANNESBURG NOT TO SHIP THIS FOOTAGE INDIVIDUALLY, BUT TO SHIP IT ALONG WITH MY NEXT SHIPMENT. WHICH IS THE INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATIONS.
N.B. THE PRESS WERE UNABLE TO MIKE THE SPEECHES SO I DOUBT WHETHER THE SOUND FROM THE SPEECHES IS AUDIBLE.

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Background: THE STORY IS ON A SIGNING CEREMONY BETWEEN ZIMBABWE AND YUGOSLAVIA. THE AGREEMENTS SIGNED WERE ON TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRADE AND ECONOMICS. THEY WERE SIGNED BY DR BERNARD CHIDZERO, ZIMBABWE MINISTER OF ECONOMIC PLANNING, AND MR JOSIP VRHOVEC, THE YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER.