KENYA: SENEGAL'S PRESIDENT SENGHOR ARRIVES FOR BRIEF OFFICIAL VISIT.

Record ID: 363582

  • Title: KENYA: SENEGAL'S PRESIDENT SENGHOR ARRIVES FOR BRIEF OFFICIAL VISIT.
  • Date: 29th June 1966
  • Summary: PRESIDENT SENGHOR WELCOMED BY PRESIDENT KENYATTA AT NAIROBI AIRPORT; TROOPS MARCH PAST; PRESIDENT LEAVE. Initials RHG/V/CCT-PW/BB Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 14th July 1966 13:00
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  • Location: NAIROBI, KENYA
  • Country: Kenya
  • Reuters ID: LVA32139MJ56N0NCZTN9FAAAEL31
  • Story Text: PRESIDENT LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR OF SENEGAL FLEW INTO NAIROBI YESTERDAY (TUESDAY) ON A BRIEF OFFICIAL VISIT TO KENYA. AT AN AIRPORT NEWS CONFERENCE, HE SAID AFRICAN NATIONS MUST ACHIEVE SOLIDARITY AMONG THEMSELVES AND WITH FORMER COLONIAL POWERS. HE URGED AFRICANS TO BE TRUE TO THEIR HERITAGE WHILE CENTERING THEIR POLITICAL FAITH IN THE ORGANISATION OF AFRICAN UNITY (OAU).

    THE PRESIDENT OF KENYA, JOMO KANYATTA, WAS AT THE AIRPORT TO MEET THE SENEGALESE PRESIDENT WHO WAS ACCOMPANIED BY HIS WIFE AND A NUMBER OF MINISTERS. PRESIDENT SENGHOR AND HIS PARTY WERE RETURNING FROM THE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS IN MALAGASY.

    THEY WILL STAY IN KENYA FOR A DAY AND WILL VISIT THE NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK, THE UNIVERSITY AND PARLIAMENT, AND CALL ON THE MAYOR OF NAIROBI.

    AT THHEE NEWS CONFERENCE, PRESIDENT SENGHOR SAID: "THERE MUST BE AN HISTORICAL SOLIDARITY BETWEEN AFRICAN NATIONS AND A VERTICAL SOLIDARITY WITH FORMER COLONIAL POWERS."
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