Pik Botha visits Soviet Union

South African foreign minister, Pik Botha, visits the Soviet Union, where he re-established consular relations which had been severed in 1956. Though the visit was unofficial Botha managed to meet his counterpart, Boris Pankin, and Eduard Shevardnadze, who replaced Pankin twelve days after the visit. Botha also announced the opening of a trade mission in St Petersburg. References: Keesing's Record of World Events, News Digest for November 1991, p. 38560