IVORY COAST: STUDENTS' CONGRESS OPENS IN ABIDJAN.

Record ID: 183076

  • Title: IVORY COAST: STUDENTS' CONGRESS OPENS IN ABIDJAN.
  • Date: 27th August 1966
  • Summary: 1. GV EXT MEETING HALL. 0.05 2. SV INT DELEGATES SEATED. 0.08 3. SCU PAN OFFICIALS ON PLATFORM, PRESIDENT OF THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE UNION MR. KOFFI SITS 5TH FROM LEFT AND CULTURAL DELEGATE MR. BROU SITS SIXTH FROM THE LEFT. 0.24 4. SV STUDENTS SEATED 0.27 5. LV & SV MR. BROU MAKES OPENING SPEECH (2 SHOTS) 0.35 6. SV DELEGATES APPLAUD 0.40 7. SV PAN SLOGAN OVER HALL. 0.48 Initials JMC/V-S/MR/BB Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 11th September 1966 13:00
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  • Location: ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • Reuters ID: LVAD3EBOFLWAWSDXD70TGRP42U6F
  • Story Text: THE NATIONAL UNION OF STUDENTS OF THE IVORY COAST OPENED ITS SECOND ORDINARY CONGRESS IN ABIDJAN ON WEDNESDAY (24 AUGUST). 170-DELEGATES ARE ATTENDING THE CONGRESS, WHICH IS GOING ON FOR FOUR DAYS. AMONG THE MATTERS BEING DISCUSSED ARE PROBLEMS RELATED TO STUDENT TRADE UNIONISM.

    THE OPENING SPEECH WAS GIVEN BY MR. TANOH BROU, THE CULTURAL DELEGATE OF THE NATIONAL UNION. OTHER ADDRESSES WERE GIVEN BY DELEGATES FROM SENEGAL AND TOGO. A NUMBER OF IVORY COAST PARLIAMENTARIANS ALSO ATTENDED THE CONGRESS, WHICH WAS HELD IN THE TREICHVILLE CULTURAL CENTRE.
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