UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC: EMERGENCY AFRO-ASIAN CONFERENCE MEETS IN CAIRO

Record ID: 337236

  • Title: UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC: EMERGENCY AFRO-ASIAN CONFERENCE MEETS IN CAIRO
  • Date: 1st July 1967
  • Summary: CONFERENCE BUILDING; EL SADAT ARRIVES; DELEGATES WALK TO ROSTRUM; DELEGATES SEATED; SPEECH; DELEGATES LISTENING; MORE DELEGATES; CONFERENCE. Initials JP/VS/CR/JG Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 16th July 1967 13:00
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  • Location: CAIRO, U.A.R.
  • Country: Egypt
  • Reuters ID: LVAC3S8PJG7KY9O6UE1QPJHFDXZY
  • Story Text: IN CAIRO, UNOFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVES OF SOME 45 AFRO-ASIAN COUNTRIES ARE MEETING TO CONSIDER CONCERTED ACTION AGAINST ISRAEL.

    THE AGENDA OF THE EMERGENCY CONFERENCE -- ORGANISED BY THE AFRO-ASIAN PEOPLE'S SOLIDARITY ORGANISATION (AAPSO) -- INCLUDES SUCH TOPICS AS MIDDLE EAST SUPPLIES, MILITARY BASES AND PACTS AND THEIR ROLE IN 'AGGRESSION' AGAINST ARAB STATES.

    PRESIDENT NASSER SAID IN A MESSAGE -- READ ON HIS BEHALF AT THE OPENING SESSION -- THAT AFRO-ASIAN NATIONS SHOULD RENEW THEIR STRUGGLE AGAINST IMPERIALISM.

    THE SPEAKER OF THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, MR. ANWAR SADAT, SAID IN HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS YESTERDAY THAT THE MEETING'S MAIN DUTY WAS TO CONDEMN THE AGGRESSION AGAINST ARAB STATES AND TO ELIMINATE THE CONSEQUENCES OF 'ISRAELI AGGRESSION.
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