FRANCE: IVORY COAST PRESIDENT COMMENTS IN PARIS ON BIAFRA

Record ID: 183114

  • Title: FRANCE: IVORY COAST PRESIDENT COMMENTS IN PARIS ON BIAFRA
  • Date: 11th May 1968
  • Summary: 1. GV EXT IVORY COAST EMBASSY IN PARIS (2 SHOTS) 0.05 2. CU PLAQUE DITTO 0.06 3. GV INT HOUPHOUET BOIGNY SEATED AT CONFERENCE TABLE 0.13 4. GV MEMBERS OF AUDIENCE (2 SHOTS) 0.22 5. CU BOIGNY SPEAKS IN FRENCH 2.00 Initials DHC/VS/BOB/SS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 26th May 1968 13:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVA9VAWBFFVLZ59XAJ8GLLSBUPY4
  • Story Text: PRESIDENT HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY OF THE IVORY COAST SAID IN PARIS ON THURSDAY HE COULD NOT RECOGNISE BIAFRA, THE BREAKAWAY EASTERN REGION OF NIGERIA, UNTIL HE HAD BEEN AUTHORITY BY THE PEOPLE OF HIS COUNTRY. PRESIDENT HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY WAS SPEAKING DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE IN PARIS.

    M. HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY HELD THE PRESS CONFERENCE IN THE EMBASSY OF THE IVORY COAST IN PARIS, BEFORE AN ASSEMBLY OF DIPLOMATS AND PRESS, RADIO AND TELEVISION JOURNALISTS.

    HE GAVE THE PRESS CONFERENCE SHORTLY BEFORE HIS RETURN TO ABIDJAN, THE IVORY COAST CAPITAL.
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