CHAD: OPENING OF PROGRESSIVE PARTY CONFERENCE

Record ID: 585016

  • Title: CHAD: OPENING OF PROGRESSIVE PARTY CONFERENCE
  • Date: 7th January 1967
  • Summary: PRE-CONFERENCE FESTIVITIES; CONFERENCE. Initials GM/V/CCT/EEH Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 22nd January 1967 12:00
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  • Location: FORT LAMY, CHAD
  • Country: Chad
  • Reuters ID: LVA1LS0JISL72EB0DHUZT9QTSH84
  • Story Text: THE SIXTH CONGRESS OF CHAD'S RULING PARTY, PROGRESSISTE TCHADIEN (CHAD PROGRESSIVE PARTY) OPENED IN FORT LAMY OF THURSDAY. ITS PURPOSE: TO REVIEW PAST ACHIEVEMENTS AND PLAN FUTURE POLICY.

    AMONG THE FOREIGN GUESTS ATTENDING THE INAUGURAL MEETING WERE PRESIDENTS HAMANI DIORI OF NIGER AND JEAN BEDEL BOKASSA OF THE CENTRAFRICAN REPUBLIC. OPPOSITION PARTIES WERE ABOLISHED IN CHAD IN 1962 AND THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY HAS SINCE BEEN THE COUNTRY'S SOLE POLITICAL BODY.

    CHAD'S PRESIDENT FRANCOIS TOMBALBAYE PRESIDED OVER THE CONGRESS, THE FIRST SINCE 1963, IN HIS CAPACITY AS PARTY SECRETARY-GENERAL.

    IN HIS ADDRESS, PRESIDENT DIORI TOLD THE DELEGATES THAT CHAD HAS PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE EVOLUTION OF AFRICA, AND PAID HOMAGE TO CHAD'S LEADERSHIP.

    PRESIDENT BOKASSA DECLARED THAT HIS AIM SINCE COMING TO POWER HAD BEEN TO STRENGTHEN LINKS BETWEEN THE CENTRAFICAN REPUBLIC AND CHAD, ADDING THAT HIS FOREIGN POLICY WAS ONE OF PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP. THE MEETING LATER ADJOURNED UNTIL FRIDAY.
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