- Title: CONGO-KINSHASA: MASSIVE PARADE MARKS END OF OCAM CONFERENCE.
- Date: 1st February 1969
- Summary: PARADE; PRESIDENTS TAKE SALUTE. Initials TS/VS/MR/PF Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 16th February 1969 13:00
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- Location: KINSHASA, CONGO-KINSHASA
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- Country: Congo, Democratic Republic of
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- Story Text: HEADS OF STATE, MINISTERS AND OFFICIALS OF COUNTRIES REPRESENTED AT THE THREE-DAY SUMMIT MEETING OF THE AFRO-MALAGASY COMMON ORGANISATION (OCAM) ON THURSDAY ATTENDED A MASSIVE PARADE IN KINSHASA TO MARK THE END OF THE MEETING. BEFORE THE PARADE STARTED, CONGO-KINSHASA PRESIDENT JOSEPH MOBUTU BESTOWED HIS COUNTRY'S HIGHEST HONOUR ON FOUR OF THE HEADS OF STATE, AND OTHER MINISTERS AND OFFICIALS RECEIVED LESSER AWARDS.
THE PRESIDENTS JOINED PRESIDENT MOBUTU IN THE REVIEWING STAND AS THE PARADE OF ARMOURED CARS, NATIONAL GUARDSMEN, TROOPS AND MEMBERS OF THE YOUTH WING OF THE RULING POPULAR MOVEMENT OF THE REVOLUTION (JMPR) FILED PAST.
THE PARADE, WHICH LASTED SEVERAL HOURS, ENDED WITH SLOGAN-CHANTING BY MEMBERS OF THE JMPR.
LATER, PRESIDENT MOBUTU GAVE A DINNER PARTY FOR THE CONFERENCE DELEGATES.
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