Public Participation: Resolution on the need for the resumption of multi-party negotiations

realizING that the economic upliftment of the country depends on the peaceful resolution of the country's problems, particularly the constitutional crisis (impasse);

ACCEPTING that all the people of this country and the whole community of nations throughout the world look to us to move the country forward towards a non-racial, non-sexist and fully democratic future;

NOW RESOLVE TO: 1. commit ourselves, individually and collectively to the resumption of multi-party negotiations in order to move as speedily as possible towards the attainment of our primary objective, which is the drafting and adoption of the new Constitution for South Africa by democratically elected representatives of all the people of this country and also ensuring that neither the present government nor any single party/organization presides over the process alone.

AND FURTHER RESOLVE THAT: 2. The multi-party forum shall be reconvened as a matter of national urgency, not later than 5 April 1993; 3. Each participating organization will send two delegates and two advisers. 4. The first meeting will determine, inter alia: 4.1 mechanisms and procedures (including Chairpersonship); 4.2 how to accommodate the views of those participants who were not in CODESA in relation to the agreements reached in CODESA; 4.3 how these agreements can serve as a constructive foundation for the resumed/commenced negotiations process to build on; 4.4 how this forum shall be structured and named; 4.5 the role of the international community 5. The Facilitating Committee of this conference will have the responsibility of deciding upon and implementing the steps that are necessary to give effect to this resolution. 6. All participants are required to make an unqualified commitment to this process as a pre-requisite for their participation.

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