CONGO-KINSHASA: PRINCE ALBERT OPENS SCHOOL, ATTENDS FOREIGN MINISTRY RECEPTION AND VISITS HOUSING AND POWER PROJECTS.

Record ID: 224236

  • Title: CONGO-KINSHASA: PRINCE ALBERT OPENS SCHOOL, ATTENDS FOREIGN MINISTRY RECEPTION AND VISITS HOUSING AND POWER PROJECTS.
  • Date: 28th February 1969
  • Summary: PRINCE ALBERT ARRIVING FOR OPENING OF SCHOOL; OFFICIAL SPEAKING AND CHILDREN AND GUESTS APPLAUDING; PRINCE ALBERT CEMENTING COMMEMORATIVE STONE; ONLOOKERS AND CHILDREN APPLAUDING; BELGIAN AND CONGOLESE FLAGS; O.A.U. BUILDING; PRINCE ALBERT AND GUESTS AT BANQUET; MR BOMBOKO SPEAKING AND BELGIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN TRADE RESPONDING; HYDRO-ELECTRIC SCHEME AREA; OFFICI
  • Embargoed: 15th March 1969 13:00
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  • Location: KINSHASA, INGA AND LIMETE, CONGO-KINSHASA
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  • Country: Congo, Democratic Republic of
  • Reuters ID: LVABKE5E6HC28FW2YDJ40MMKPJ38
  • Story Text: DURING HIS TWO WEEKS' STAY IN CONGO-KINSHASA (ENDING TOMORROW, 1 MARCH) AT THE HEAD OF A BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION, PRINCE ALBERT OF LIEGE, BOTHER OF BELGIUM'S KING BAUDOUIN, HAS BEEN FULFILLING VARIOUS OFFICIAL ENGAGEMENTS.

    AMONG THEM WAS THE OPENING OF A SCHOLL FOR BELGIAN CHILDREN IN KINSHASA; A GALA RECEPTION GIVEN THE MINISTERS OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS; AND VISIT TO THE INGA HYDRO-ELECTRIC PROJECT AND THE LIMETE HOUSING SITE.

    IN KINSHASA, PRINCE ALBERT CEMENTED THE FOUNDATION STONE OF A NEW SCHOOL INTENDED FOR THE CHILDREN OF BELGIANS ENGAGED IN AIDING CONGO-KINSHASA'S DEVELOPMENT; HE WAS WARMLY APPLAUDED BY THE FUTURE SCHOLARS.

    AT THE GALA RECEPTION GIVEN IN HIS HONOUR, THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, JUSTIN MARIE BOMBOKO, DECLARED: "YOU CAN BE THE MAINSPRING OF BELGIAN-CONGOLESE CO-OPERATION", -- A REMARK WHICH WAS WARMLY RECIPROCATED BY THE BELGIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN TRADE, M. HENRI FAYAT. THE PRINCE WAS OFFERED A MAGNIFICENT VIEW FROM AN AIR CONGO AIRCRAFT OF THE HUGE HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER PROJECT NOW BEING BUILT AT IMGA, 300 KM (NEARLY 200 MILES) FROM KINSHASA, WHERE THE PREPARATORY WORK ON THE FIRST STAGE, WHICH IS TO PRODUCE 3 1/2 MILLION KWH, HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND WHERE IT IS INTENDED TO GENERATE AS MUCH ELECTRICITY AS IN THE SIX EUROPEAN COMMON MARKET COUNTRIES TAKEN TOGETHER. AT LIMETE -- WHERE THE PRINCE, HIS PARTY AND MINSTER LOAREGO WERE RECEIVED BY MME LIAHU-KANZA, MINISTER OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS - AN OFFICIAL HOUSING PROJECT COMPRISING 2,300 HOUSES IS IN PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTION. THESE HOUSES ARE TO ACCOMMODATE, AT FIRST, THE VISITORS TO A PROJECTED WORLD FAIR, AND WILL THEN BE PUT UP FOR SALE.

    THE BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION'S VISIT, WHICH PROVIDED THE FIRST OCCASION FOR A MEMBER OF THE BELGIAN ROYAL FAMILY TO VISIT THE CONGO SINCE IT ACHIEVED INDEPENDENCE IN 1960, WAS BEEN IN KINSHASA AS A MILESTONE IN THE RAPID IMPROVEMENT OF RELATIONS BETWEEN BRUSSELS AND KINSHASA. IT CAME ABOUT AT THE INVITATION OF PRESIDENT JOSEPH MOBUTU, PRESIDENT OF CONGO-KINSHASA.
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