IVORY COAST: UNITED NATIONS TURNS OVER EQUIPMENT FOR MINERAL DEVELOPMENT IN CEREMONY IN ABIDJAN.

Record ID: 183320

  • Title: IVORY COAST: UNITED NATIONS TURNS OVER EQUIPMENT FOR MINERAL DEVELOPMENT IN CEREMONY IN ABIDJAN.
  • Date: 6th August 1972
  • Summary: 1. GV EXT SODEMI building 0.05 2. CU Sign 0.10 3. SV Mr. Toure greeted 0.16 4. SV Mr. Makovsky (centre) greeted 0.25 5. CU Mineral sample being examined 0.32 6. SV Toure, Makovsky and others enter room 0.42 7. SCU Toure and Makovsky talk to official PAN TO equipment 0.50 8. GV EXT Vehicles 0.54 9. SV Official party PAN TO land rovers and trucks 1.01 10. LV Official party walking through vehicles 1.07 11. SV Generators 1.12 12. SV & BV Officials looking at vehicles 1.22 Initials BB/1720 CH/PW/BB/1740 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 21st August 1972 13:00
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  • Location: ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • Reuters ID: LVA2L5MBL4OA9GEYL1L3G2RVFYKW
  • Story Text: On Thursday (3 August) the United Nations Development Programme presented to the Ivory Coast equipment which they had used in the seven year mineral development project carried out in the southeast part of the country.

    Two drills, a bulldozer, prospecting vehicles, office and laboratory equipment, plus mineral samples were turned over in the ceremony.

    United Nations representative Georges Makovsky made the official presentation on behalf of the U.N. Joachim Toure accepted on behalf of the government of the Ivory Coast.

    The equipment will be rebuilt by the "Society for Mineral Development in the Ivory Coast" (SODEMI) for use in mineral development and other government projects.
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