ALGERIA: ARMED FORCES PLEDGE SUPPORT FOR COLONEL BOUMEDIENNE AT ALGIERS MEETING.

Record ID: 574514

  • Title: ALGERIA: ARMED FORCES PLEDGE SUPPORT FOR COLONEL BOUMEDIENNE AT ALGIERS MEETING.
  • Date: 29th December 1967
  • Summary: THE MILITARY REPRESENTATIVES GATHERED; COLONEL BOUMEDIENNE ARRIVING BY CAR; BOUMEDIENNE AND REPRESENTATIVES ENTERING BUILDING. Initials RM/VS/CR/MJB Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th January 1968 12:00
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  • Location: ALGIERS, ALGERIA
  • Country: Algeria
  • Reuters ID: LVA7L6YH6K3KWRI5PC716HQKK83X
  • Story Text: THE COMMANDERS OF ALGERIA'S FIVE MILITARY REGIONS WERE AMONG ARMED FORCES REPRESENTATIVES WHO MET NEAR ALGIERS LEADER, COLONEL HOUARI BOUMEDIENNE. THE 1,000 REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 70,000 MEMBERS OF THE ALGERIAN ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE AND GENDARMERIE, PASSED A RESOLUTION CONDEMNING THE ATTEMPTED COUP TWO WEEKS AGO ADN CALLING FOR EXEMPLARY PUNISHMENT OF THOSE WHO TOOK PART.

    COLONEL BOUMEDIENNE CONVENED THE MEETING AT A CONFERENCE HALL SOME 10 MILES (16 KM) FROM ALGIERS IN THE WAKE OF THE ABORTIVE COUP, WHICH THE GOVERNMENT ALLEGES WAS LED BY THE FORMER CHIEF OF STAFF, COLONEL TAHAR ZBIRI, NOW SAID TO BE IN HIDING. COLONEL BOUMEDIENNE TOOK CONTROL OF THE ARMED FORCES DURING THE REVOLT AND NOW PLANS TO REORGANISE THEM. HIS SPEECH TO THE MILITARY REPRESENTATIVES ON THURSDAY NIGHT LASTED THREE HOURS.
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