- Title: TUNISIA: IVORY COAST PRESIDENT ARRIVES ON OFFICIAL VISIT.
- Date: 19th March 1968
- Summary: AIRCRAFT ARRIVES: WELCOMING PARTY; GUARD OF HONOUR: BOIGNY OFF AIRCRAFT: BAND: BOUGUIBA AND HOUPHOURT-BOIGNY: PRESIDENTS INSPECT GUARD OF HONOUR: OFFICIALS: CARS AND MOTOR CYCLE ESCORT: CROWDS: PRESIDENTS WAVE: CARS THROUGH STREETS. Initials GEM/VS/AS/EEH Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 3rd April 1968 13:00
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- Location: TUNIS, TUNISIA
- Country: Tunisia
- Reuters ID: LVA12LON8476TGJAKJZT6LX3KV9G
- Story Text: PRESIDENT FELIX HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY, OF THE IVORY COAST, YESTERDAY (MONDAY) ARRIVED IN TUNISIA FOR AN EIGHT-DAY OFFICIAL VISIT.
PRESIDENT HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY, WHO WAS ACCOMPANIED BY HIS WIFE AND THE IVORY COAST FOREIGN MINISTER, M. ARSENE ASSOUAN USHER, WAS WELCOMED BY TUNISIAN PRESIDENT HABIB BOURGUIBA, MINISTERS AND MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
THE IVORY COAST PRESIDENT WAS DUE TO HAVE TALKS WITH PRESIDENT BOURGUIBA AND ADDRESS THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
NO SPECIFIC AGENDA HAD BEEN LAID DOWN FOR THE TALKS, BUT DIPLOMATIC SOURCES BELIEVED THAT A WIDE-RANGING EXCHANGE OF VIEWS WOULD TALK PLACE, INCLUDING THE MIDDLE EAST CRISIS AND THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN RHODESIA.
A TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP AND CO-OPERATION WAS CONCLUDED BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES IN DECEMBER 1965 WHEN PRESIDENT BOURGUIBA VISITED THE IVORY COAST ON A TOUR OF NINE AFRICAN COUNTRIES.
PRESIDENT HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY, WHO WAS GIVEN A ROUSING RECEPTION WHEN HE ARRIVED AT THE AIRPORT AND LATER WHEN HE DROVE THROUGH THE STREETS OF THE TUNISIAN CAPITAL, WAS DUE TO SPEND TWO DAYS IN THE INTERIOR AND VISIT THE HOLY CITY OF KAIROUANG.
IN A WELCOMING SPEECH PRESIDENT BOURGUIBA TOLD HIS GUEST THAT HIS VISIT MARKED A NEW STAGE IN THE BUILDING OF THE CONTINENT'S FUTURE AND A NEW CONTRIBUTION TO THE CAUSE OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLES.
PRESIDENT HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY, IN HIS REPLY, STRESSED THE SIMILARITY BETWEEN THE PATHS OF THE TWO COUNTRIES.
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