IVORY COAST: PRESIDENT SOGLO OF DAHOMEY IN ABIDJAN EN ROUTE TO PARIS FOR PRIVATE VISIT
Record ID:
183025
IVORY COAST: PRESIDENT SOGLO OF DAHOMEY IN ABIDJAN EN ROUTE TO PARIS FOR PRIVATE VISIT
- Title: IVORY COAST: PRESIDENT SOGLO OF DAHOMEY IN ABIDJAN EN ROUTE TO PARIS FOR PRIVATE VISIT
- Date: 17th September 1966
- Summary: PRESIDENT SOGLO WELCOMED BY M. AUGUSTE DENISE; INSPECTION OF GUARD OF HONOUR; PRES. SOGLO TALKS TO NEWSMAN; WELCOMING CROWD OUTSIDE AIRPORT. Initials RGH/V/JF/OS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 2nd October 1966 13:00
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- Location: ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
- Country: Ivory Coast
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- Story Text: GENERAL CHRISTOPHE SOGLO, THE PRESIDENT OF DAHOMEY, STOPPED OVER IN THE IVORY COAST CAPITAL, ABIDJAN, YESTERDAY (FRIDAY) EN ROUTE TO PARIS FOR A PRIVATE VISIT.
PRESIDENT SOGLO WAS WELCOMED AT ABIDJAN AIRPORT BY THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR THE IVORY COAST, M. AUGUSTE DENISE, THE PRESIDENT OF THE IVORY COAST COUNCIL OF ECONOMICS, M. MAMADOU COULIBALY, AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, M. PHILIPPE YACE.
AT THE AIRPORT THERE WAS AN INSPECTION OF THE GUARD OF HONOUR AND PRESIDENT SOGLO TALKED TO NEWSMEN. SOME OF THE CROWD OUTSIDE THE TERMINAL DANCED AND PLAYED DRUMS IN WELCOME.
(PRESIDENT SOGLO LATER FLEW ON TO PARIS. HE SAID THERE HE WAS ON A PRIVATE VISIT BUT HOPED TO MEET PRESIDENT DE GAULLE AND A NUMBER OF FRENCH PERSONALITIES. HE ALSO HOPED TO DISCUSS FRANCO-DAHOMEY RELATIONS.
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