KENYA: UNITED STATES VICE-PRESIDENT, HUBERT HUMPHREY NAIROBI AIRPORT

Record ID: 337308

  • Title: KENYA: UNITED STATES VICE-PRESIDENT, HUBERT HUMPHREY NAIROBI AIRPORT
  • Date: 9th January 1968
  • Summary: AIRCRAFT ARRIVES NAIROBI IN EARLY EVENING. HUMPHREY GREETED BY KENYA'S VICE-PRESIDENT MOI. HUMPHREY MAKES SPEECH. Initials JM/V/BB/PC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 24th January 1968 12:00
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  • Location: NAIROBI, KENYA
  • Country: Kenya
  • Reuters ID: LVA91ESAWLT4AU4ZJB00BUX138C0
  • Story Text: SOMALIA'S WISH TO LINK UP WITH A ROAD BEING BUILT BETWEEN NAIROBI AND ADDIS ABABA HAS BEEN EXPRESSED TO KENYA'S PRESIDENT JOMO KENYATTA BY THE UNITED STATES VICE-PRESIDENT, MR. HUBERT HUMPHREY. MR. HUMPHREY ARRIVED AT NAIROBI IN KENYA DURING THE WEEKEND, WHILE ON A NINE-NATION GOOD-WILL TOUR OF AFRICA. HE LEFT TODAY (TUESDAY) FOR TUNISIA, THE LAST STAGE OF HIS TOUR.

    MR. HUMPHREY WAS MET BY THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF KENYA, MR. DANIEL MOI. AT A MEETING WITH PRESIDENT JOMO KENYATTA, MR. HUMPHREY DELIVERED MESSAGES OF GOOD WILL FROM THE LEADERS OF OTHER AFRICAN STATES HE HAD VISITED. SOMALIA'S RELATIONS WITH ITS MORE PROSPEROUS NEIGHBOURS HAVE BEEN TROUBLED BY BORDER DISPUTE, AND ALTHOUGH THERE'S BEEN FORMAL AGREEMENT TO SETTLE THE DIFFERENCES RELATIONS ARE NOT YET FULLY RENEWED. MR. HUMPHREY AND PRESIDENT KENYATTA DISCUSSED THE PROBLEM OF WHITE MERCENARIES FROM THE CONGO HELD IN RWANDA AND AMERICAN AID FOR DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN KENYA.
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