- Title: ALGERIA: AFRO-ASIAN SUMMIT CONFERENCE IN ALGIERS POSTPONED AGAIN
- Date: 2nd November 1965
- Summary: 1. GV INT. HALL 0.04 2. SV TUNISIAN DELEGATES 0.07 3. SV GABONESE DELEGATE 0.08 4. SV DELEGATES 0.11 5. GV CAMEROON DELEGATE 0.16 6. GV OTHER DELEGATIONS 0.18 7. GV ALGERIAN DELEGATION 0.26 8. SV CHINESE OBSERVERS 0.28 9. GV DELEGATES 0.30 10. GV ZOOM TO LV MR. BOUTEFLIKA MAKING SPEECH FROM DIAS 0.44 Initials RM/V/MGT/SA Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 17th November 1965 12:00
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- Location: ALGIERS, ALGERIA
- Country: Algeria
- Reuters ID: LVAE8PL0V1EOEPWDQEHWPTCIYWQO
- Story Text: THE AFRO-ASIAN SUMMIT CONFERENCE SCHEDULED TO START IN ALGIERS ON FRIDAY WAS POSTPONED INDEFINITELY TODAY (TUESDAY). POSTPONEMENT CAME AFTER THREE DAYS OF CONSULTATION BY A 45-NATION AFRO-ASIAN FOREIGN MINISTERS' CONFERENCE ON WHETHER THE SUMMIT CONFERENCE SHOULD GO ON AS PLANNED.
THE POSTPONEMENT FOLLOWS CHINA'S THREAT TO BOYCOTT THE CONFERENCE, ESPECIALLY IF THE SOVIET UNION ATTENDED - THUS LEAVING HALF THE AFRO-ASIAN WORLD UNREPRESENTED. THE ALGERIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, MR. ABDELAZIZ BOUTEFLIKA, HAD REPORTED A DISTINCT CONSENSUS IN FAVOUR OF SOVIET PARTICIPATION -- IN SPITE OF CHINESE DISAPPROVAL.
(THE ALGIERS CONFERENCE WAS PREVIOUSLY POSTPONED WHEN THE MINISTERS GATHERED THERE LAST JUNE. IT WAS PUT OFF FOLLOWING THE ALGERIAN COUP THAT OVERTHREW PRESIDENT BEN BELLA).
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