IVORY COAST: GOVERNMENT SIGNS LAND AGREEMENT WITH THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK.

Record ID: 183134

  • Title: IVORY COAST: GOVERNMENT SIGNS LAND AGREEMENT WITH THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK.
  • Date: 22nd March 1968
  • Summary: IVORY COAST FOREIGN MINISTER, M. USHER AND BANK PRESIDENT, M. MAMMOUN BEHEIRY SIGN AGREEMENT. Initials JP/V/JH/SC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 6th April 1968 13:00
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  • Location: ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • Reuters ID: LVA42KSX8W8TP0H3DYMY331EXVIS
  • Story Text: THE IVORY COAST GOVERNMENT HAS SIGNED AN AGREEMENT WITH THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK. THE AGREEMENT, COMPLETED IN ABIDJAN ON 16 MARCH, ALLOCATED AN AREA OF LAND FOR THE BANK'S NEW HEADQUARTERS AND GRANTED THE BANK DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES.

    THE AGREEMENT WAS SIGNED BY THE IVORY COAST FOREIGN MINISTER, M. ARSENE USHER AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE BANK, M. MAMOUN BEHEIRY. THE BANK WILL RECEIVE 4,770 SQUARE METRES OF LAND FOR THE BUILDING SITE IN ABIDJAN. THIRTY AFRICAN STATES ARE MEMBERS OF THE DEVELOPMENT BANK AND ANOTHER SEVEN ARE CONSIDERING JOINING.
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