IVORY COAST: PRESIDENT HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY AT POLICE GRADUATION CEREMONY

Record ID: 183079

  • Title: IVORY COAST: PRESIDENT HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY AT POLICE GRADUATION CEREMONY
  • Date: 28th August 1966
  • Summary: PRESIDENT AND MINISTER WATCH GRADUATION CEREMONY, POLICE CADETS TAKING OATH AND GIVING DISPLAY OF DRILLING. Initials JRG/VS/MR/GLH Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 12th September 1966 13:00
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  • Location: ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • Reuters ID: LVA91FXKES3S59T3LHWZ7KVNQF2W
  • Story Text: OVER 200 IVORY COAST POLICE CADETS HAVE JUST GRADUATED AT A CEREMONY IN ABIDJAN. PRESIDENT FELIX HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY ATTENDED, ACCOMPANIED BY THE ARMED FORCES MINISTER, M. MIBAHIA BLE KOUADIO.

    THE GRADUATION TOOK PLACE AT NIGHT AT THE POLICE SCHOOL. AMONG THOSE WATCHING WERE MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT AND DIPLOMATIC CORPS AND HIGH RANKING MILITARY OFFICERS.

    THE IVORY COAST, A FORMER MEMBER STATE OF THE FRENCH UNION, BECAME AN INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC SIX YEARS AGO THIS MONTH.
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