ALGERIA: DR MOKKADEM, LEADER OF TUNISIAN'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, ARRIVES IN ALGIERS ON SPECIAL MISSION

Record ID: 574547

  • Title: ALGERIA: DR MOKKADEM, LEADER OF TUNISIAN'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, ARRIVES IN ALGIERS ON SPECIAL MISSION
  • Date: 16th June 1967
  • Summary: MOKKADEM ARRIVING AND BEING GREETED AT AIRPORT. Initials AB/VS/CT/ES Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 1st July 1967 13:00
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  • Location: ALGIERS -- ALGERIA
  • Country: Algeria
  • Reuters ID: LVAAXK6UPP52UWOWQFTZML8K4CK5
  • Story Text: DR SADOK MOKKADEM, CHAIRMAN OF TUNISIAN'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ARRIVED IN ALGIERS YESTERDAY (THURSDAY) ON A SPECIAL MISSION FOR PRESIDENT HABIB BOURGUIBA.

    DR MOKKADEM WAS TO CONFER WITH PRIME MINISTER HOUARBI BOUMEDIENNE OF ALGERIA. LATER HE FLIES ON TO RABAT TO TALK WITH KING HASSAN OF MOROCCO.

    AT THE AIRPORT DR MOKKADEM SAID HIS MISSION INVOLVED THE MIDDLE EAST BUT DECLINED TO GIVE DETAILS. COLONEL BOUMEDIENNE RECENTLY VISITED MOSCOW ON BEHALF OF ALL ARAB STATES.

    DR MOKKADEM RECENTLY VISITED CAIRO, WHERE HE MET PRESIDENT NASSER AND ANNOUNCED THAT TUNISIA AND EGYPT HAD DECIDED TO REOPEN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WHICH WERE BROKEN LAST YEAR.

    HE DINED WITH PRESIDENT BOURGUIBA IN TUNIS ON THE EVE OF HIS DEPARTURE AND HIS FLIGHT FROM TUNIS AIRPORT WAS HELD UP TO ENABLE HIM TO RECEIVE LAST MINUTE INSTRUCTIONS.

    IN ALGIERS HE WAS GREETED OFF HIS AIRCRAFT BY M. BOUTELFLI'KA, THE ALGERIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AND ABDEL MAJID CHACKER, THE TUNISIAN AMBASSADOR TO ALGERIA.
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