IVORY COAST: FRANCE TO LEND THE IVORY COAST 328 MILLION FRANCS CFA FOR TWO EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS.

Record ID: 183422

  • Title: IVORY COAST: FRANCE TO LEND THE IVORY COAST 328 MILLION FRANCS CFA FOR TWO EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS.
  • Date: 16th December 1973
  • Summary: 1. GV Ext. Finance Ministry 0.05 2. LV Int. Minister Kone arrives and greeted 0.10 3. CU Portrait of President Houphouet Boigny 0.11 4. SCU M. Leclerc signs agreements and passes it to Kone who signs 0.27 5. LV & CU M. LeClerc speaking (2) 0.37 6. Sv Other officials 0.40 7. SV M. Kone speaking 0.47 8. SV Pan Guests applaud Pan to M. Kone and M. LeClaerc rising from table 0.59 9. CU Agreement 1.05 10. SV M. LeClerc and M. Kone drinking 1.17 Initials SC/2206 SC/2247 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 31st December 1973 12:00
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  • Location: ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • Reuters ID: LVA4PYKN4GZUZ17UD1PT8V0OD3GE
  • Story Text: An agreement was signed between France and the Ivory Coast on Friday (14 December) to finance two educational projects in the West African nation. The French government has agreed to make grants to the Ivory Coast totalling 328 million france CFA (GBP 550,000 sterling).

    One of the two grants, for 305 million france CFA (GBP 510,000 sterling) will go towards the purchase of new equipment for the Educational Television Centre at Bouake, 350 kms. (218 miles) north of Abidjan. Some of the money will go towards secondary school and extra-mural projects, as well as paying for new materials. The new grant will bring the total amount of French aid to educational television in the Ivory Coast since 1959 to 1,624.5 million france CFA. (2,805 thousand pounds sterling).

    The second grant will be used for a second black of buildings and new accommodation at the National Technical Institute at the University of Abidjan.

    The agreement was signed at the Ministry of Finance and Economy. France was represented by the Head of the Permanent Mission in Abidjan, M. Jacques LeClerc. The senior Ivory Coast Minister present was M. Abdoulaye, the Secretary of State for the Budget.

    In a speech at the ceremony, M. Kone said the Educational Television project was a good example of what could be achieved with international co-operation. He thanked the French government for their assistance in the two projects.

    SYNOPSIS: The Minister of Finance and Economy in Abidjan was the setting for the signing of a financial agreement between France and the Ivory Coast on Friday.

    The agreement, signed by M. Jacques LeClerc for the French government and M. Abdoulaye Kone for the Ivory Coast, was for a grant of three-hundred-and-twenty-eight france CFA towards two educational projects in the West African nation.

    Most of the money will go towards new equipment and materials for the Educational Television Centre at Bouake, some three hundred and fifty kilometres to the north of Abidjan.

    In his speech, M. Kone, the Ivory Coast's Secretary of State for the Budget, said the Educational Television project was a good example of what could be achieved through international co-operation. He also thanked the French government for the financial assistance it has given the Ivory Coast.

    The second part of the grant is to go towards the construction of a block of buildings and a residence hall at Abidjan University's National Technical Institute.

    After the speeches, M. LeClarc, Head of France's Mission in Abidjan, and M. Kone drank a toast together.
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