- Title: IVORY COAST: VISIT OF FOREIGN MINISTER OF SENEGAL
- Date: 18th November 1967
- Summary: 1. GV NIGHT SHOT AIRCRAFT TAXIES IN TO ABIDJAN AIRPORT 0.07 2. CU SIGN "PASSENGERS TO ABIDJAN" 0.10 3. CU "AIR AFRIQUE" ON AIRCRAFT TAXIING 0.17 4. CU OFFICIALS WALK FORWARD TO GREET DOUDOU THIAM 0.26 5. SV THIAM OUT OF AIRCRAFT AND GREETED (2 SHOTS) 0.43 6. CU THIAM 0.50 7. CU OFFICIAL WHO GREETS HIM 0.53 8. SV PARTY WALK PAST 1.08 9. CU THIAM GREETS LOCAL OFFICIALS AND WALKS INTO AIRPORT LOUNGE 1.30 10. SV&CU INT. THIAM SEATED WITH OFFICIALS (4 SHOTS) 1.59 Initials JBC/V/MR/VOO MM Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 3rd December 1967 12:00
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- Location: ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
- Country: Ivory Coast
- Reuters ID: LVA2CXY8RH0W8LIUN936G9ODOMFP
- Story Text: THE FOREIGN MINISTER OF SENEGAL, DOUDOU THIAM, HAS JUST PAID A VISIT TO THE IVORY COAST. IT WAS INTENDED TO IMPROVE THE RELATIONS BETWEEN IVORY COAST AND GUINEA.
DOUDOU THIAM ARRIVED WITH A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM SENEGAL'S PRESIDENT, LEOPOLD SENGHOR, FOR IVORY COAST PRESIDENT FELIX HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY. HIS VISIT COINCIDED WITH THE PUBLICATION OF AN IVORY COAST NATIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNIQUE ON THE STRAINED RELATIONS WITH GUINEA. IT SPOKE OF "THE INHUMAN MEASURES, THE CRUEL TORTURES AND THE IGNOBLE METHODS USED BY THE GUINEAN REGIME AGAINST FRANCOIS KAMANO."
MR KAMANO, A SENIOR IVORY COAST OFFICIAL, WAS DETAINED BY GUINEA IN NOVEMBER 1965 AND ACCUSED OF PLOTTING AGAINST THE STATE. HE AND OTHER DETAINEES HELD BY BOTH SIDES WERE RELEASED LAST MONTH.
DOUDOU THIAM WAS MET AT THE AIRPORT BY THE IVORY COAST'S CHIEF OF PROTOCOL, GEORGE OUEGNIN, BY FOREIGN MINISTER USHER ASSOUAN AND BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL AT THE FOREIGN MINISTRY, GEORGE ANOMAN.
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