IVORY COAST: EIGHT ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATED IN ABENGOUROU

Record ID: 183133

  • Title: IVORY COAST: EIGHT ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATED IN ABENGOUROU
  • Date: 9th August 1968
  • Summary: HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY ARRIVING, WELCOMED; OFFICIALS SEATED; MARCH PAST; HELICOPTER OVERHEAD; TROOPS AND ARMOURED VEHICLES PAST. Initials DHC/VS/BOB/SS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 24th August 1968 13:00
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  • Location: ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • Reuters ID: LVAEE4MKWHUZXP4TPDGGKIVZ5IS
  • Story Text: THE EIGHT ANNIVERSARY OF THE IVORY COAST'S INDEPENDENCE FROM FRANCE WAS CELEBRATED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY ON WEDNESDAY. IN ABENGOUROU, 200 KMS (125 MILES) NORTH OF THE CAPITAL, ABIDJAN, PRESIDENT FELIX HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY WATCHED A DISPLAY OF NATIONAL DANCES AND THE TRADITIONAL CIVIL AND MILITARY MARCH PAST.

    PRESIDENT HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY WAS ACCOMPANIED AT THE ABENGOUROU CELEBRATIONS BY VISITING UNITED NATIONS UNDER SECRETARY GENERAL CHAKRAVARTI NARASHIMHAN.

    MR. NARASHMINHAN IS ON THE LAST LEG OF A FIVE-NATION WEST AFRICAN TOUR. ANOTHER GUEST OF HONOUR WAS MR SADOK MOKADDEM, THE PRESIDENT OF TUNISIA'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

    ABENGOUROU IS ONE OF THE SIX REGIONAL CENTRES IN WHICH THE MAIN INDEPENDENCE CEREMONIES ARE HELD IN ANNUAL ROTATION.
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