UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC: PRESIDENT NASSER RECEIVES DELEGATION FROM NEW LIBYAN REGIME.

Record ID: 337140

  • Title: UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC: PRESIDENT NASSER RECEIVES DELEGATION FROM NEW LIBYAN REGIME.
  • Date: 23rd October 1969
  • Summary: NASSER GREETING DELEGATES: PARTY ENTER CONFERENCE ROOM: NASSER AND DELEGATES SEATED: NASSER AND GALLOUD. Initials GHB/VS/CCT/BB Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 7th November 1969 13:00
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  • Location: CAIRO, UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC
  • Country: Egypt
  • Reuters ID: LVABL3BY2UV1AAQ79A2HP5O62YMX
  • Story Text: ONE OF THE FIRST ENGAGEMENTS UNDERTAKEN BY PRESIDENT NASSER OF THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC AFTER HIS RECENT ILLNESS WAS TO RECEIVE A DELEGATION FROM THE NEW LIBYAN REVOLUTIONARY COMMAND COUNCIL. YESTERDAY (WEDNESDAY) PRESIDENT NASSER WELCOMED THE DELEGATION, WHICH WAS HEADED BY CAPTAIN ABDEL SALAM GALLOUD.

    PRESIDENT NASSER, WHO CANCELLED ALL HIS ENGAGEMENTS FROM SEPTEMBER 17 DUE TO ILL HEALTH, RECEIVED CAPTAIN GALLOUD AND THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE DELEGATION AT HIS OFFICIAL RESIDENCE. HE APPEARED TO BE FULLY RECOVERED.

    CAPTAIN GALLOUD, WHO WAS RETURNING FROM THE CELEBRATIONS MARKING THE OCTOBER 21 REVOLUTION ANNIVERSARY IN THE SUDAN, IS A MEMBER OF THE MILITARY JUNTA WHICH SEIZED POWER FROM THE AILING KING IDRIS OF LIBYA EARLY IN SEPTEMBER.

    THE NEW LIBYAN REGIME, KNOWN AS THE REVOLUTIONARY COMMAND COUNCIL, IS ALIGNED WITH OTHER ARAB COUNTRIES ON THE PALESTINIAN QUESTION. ONE OF THE FIRST NATIONS TO GRANT RECOGNITION TO THE NEW REGIME WAS THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC.
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