Eminent Persons Group, noun phrase

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Also Eminent Persons’ Group.
historical
A group of Commonwealth politicians who visited South Africa in 1986 in an attempt to mediate between the government and the ANC, and to investigate ways of moving away from apartheid peacefully; EPG.
1986 Guardian (U.K.) 5 Feb. 7Sir Geoffrey won the support for the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group of the EEC-Frontline States meeting.
1986 Times (U.K.) 20 May 1The Commonwealth Eminent Persons Groups (EPG), which is trying to mediate between Pretoria and the ANC, had left Lusaka..for Cape Town.
1986 S. Cronjé in New Statesman (U.K.) 23 May 17The Eminent Persons Group was formed after the Bahamas Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ meeting last October.., to promote a peaceful move away from apartheid.
1987 E. Prov. Herald 29 Apr. 13Dr Denis Worrall has told a London newspaper that the Government’s handling of the Eminent Persons’ Group was one of the reasons why he decided to oppose the National Party.
1989 Reader’s Digest Illust. Hist. of S. Afr. 481The Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group, a team of highly placed Commonwealth ‘eminent persons’ who had been charged by the October 1985 Commonwealth conference to try to seek a solution to the South African impasse.
1991 ‘Hogarth’ in Sunday Times 17 Mar. 22Having suffered expulsion, trade embargoes, boycotts, the Eminent Persons Group and the Gleneagles agreement, South Africans have earned the right to insist that other Commonwealth countries live up to our standards — or suffer the same punishments.
A group of Commonwealth politicians who visited South Africa in 1986 in an attempt to mediate between the government and the ANC, and to investigate ways of moving away from apartheid peacefully; EPG.
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