CHAD: PRESIDENT TOMBALBAYE OPENS CONFERENCE OF CHAD REPUBLIC AMBASSADORS

Record ID: 441456

  • Title: CHAD: PRESIDENT TOMBALBAYE OPENS CONFERENCE OF CHAD REPUBLIC AMBASSADORS
  • Date: 28th August 1968
  • Summary: PRESIDENT SPEAKING TO AMBASSADORS; SENIOR AMBASSADOR MR AGANAYE SPEAKING; FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER DR. BAROUM SPEAKING. Initials PK/VS/AS/ES Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 12th September 1968 13:00
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  • Location: FORT LAMY, CHAD
  • Country: Chad
  • Reuters ID: LVA39FABU93C1SO4KYM658YIGW0
  • Story Text: PRESIDENT FRANCOIS TOMBALBAYE, OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHAD, HAS CALLED FOR FRENCH TROOPS TO HELP THE CHAD ARMY PUT DOWN A REBELLION IN THE NORTH OF THE COUNTRY, IT WAS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED TODAY (WEDNESDAY). A GOVERNMENT COMMUNIQUE SAID THE APPEAL WAS MADE BY THE PRESIDENT UNDER DEFENCE TREATIES SIGNED BETWEEN THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE FORMER FRENCH AFRICAN COLONY.

    THE MOVE COMES TWO DAYS AFTER THE PROBLEMS OF INTERNAL STATE SECURITY WERE DISCUSSED AT THE FIFTH CONFERENCE OF THE REPUBLIC'S AMBASSADORS IN FORT LAMY, PRESIDED OVER BY PRESIDENT TOMBALBAYE.

    PRESIDENT TOMBALBAYE, IN HIS OPENING ADDRESS AT THE CONFERENCE, EMPHASISED THE IMPORTANT ROLE OF AMBASSADORS OF CENTRAL AFRICAN COUNTRIES IN WORLD DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS.

    HE DETAILED TO THE HEADS OF THE DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS ABROAD THE CHANGES THAT HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE PAST YEAR. THE MOST IMPORTANT, HE SAID, WAS THE DECISION OF CHAD AND ITS NEAR NEIGHBOUR, THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, TO LEAVE THE UNION OF THE CENTRAL AFRICAN STATES AND TO JOIN WITH THE REPUBLIC OF CONGO-KINSHASA TO CREATE A NEW ORGANISATION.

    THIS NEW ORGANISATION, HE SAID, WOULD BE BETTER ADAPTED FOR THE ECONOMIC PROMOTION OF THE AFRICAN STATES CONCERNED.

    THE CHAD FOREIGN MINISTER, DR. JACQUES BAROUM, AND THE DEAN OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS, MR ADOUM AGANAYE, ALSO SPOKE TO THE AMBASSADORS.

    CHAD, WHICH GAINED ITS INDEPENDENCE FROM FRANCE IN 1960, HAS BEEN THREATENED BY INTERNAL TENSIONS FOR SEVERAL YEARS, WITH THE MAIN SOURCE OF UNREST IN THE NORTHERN REGIONS OF THE COUNTRY.
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