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| Wednesday, 09 April 2008 | |
 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday she wanted to end "embarrassing" U.S. travel restrictions on former South African President Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress. Mandela, who was on a U.S. blacklist during the apartheid
years, still has to get a special waiver to enter the Rice told U.S. lawmakers it was time to remove travel restrictions on Mandela, a former Nobel Peace Prize winner and liberation hero, and others from his party. "I really do hope we can remove these restrictions on the ANC. This is a country with which we now have excellent relations -- South Africa," said Rice, who gave no timeline for the move. "It is frankly a rather embarrassing matter that I still have to waive in my own counterparts -- the foreign minister of South Africa, not to mention the great leader, Nelson Mandela," she added. Rice Wants to End Travel Curb on Mandela And ANCComments
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