CHAD: EAST GERMAN DELEGATION VISITS FORT LAMY FOR TALKS WITH PRESIDENT TOMBALBAYE.
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646149
CHAD: EAST GERMAN DELEGATION VISITS FORT LAMY FOR TALKS WITH PRESIDENT TOMBALBAYE.
- Title: CHAD: EAST GERMAN DELEGATION VISITS FORT LAMY FOR TALKS WITH PRESIDENT TOMBALBAYE.
- Date: 21st August 1971
- Summary: 1. GV Exterior Foreign Affairs Ministry 0.05 2. MV Pan interior East German delegation enters 0.10 3. GV & SV Hassan Baba talks with delegation (5 shots) 0.29 4. GV Exterior Presidential Palace 0.35 5. SV Delegation enters and greeted by Tombalbaye (2 shots) 0.45 6. SV & GV Tombalbaye talking with delegation (5 shots) 1.02 Initials OS/1357 OS/1403 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 5th September 1971 13:00
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- Location: FORT LAMY, CHAD
- Country: Chad
- Reuters ID: LVADOBIBKFLGWYY8XLGHCRXQOE5E
- Story Text: East Germany's Minister of Posts and Communications Herr Rudolph Schulze met Chad President Francois Tombalbaye of Chad on Wednesday (August 18) in Fort Lamy. Later Herr Schulze described the meeting as "very friendly and marked by a spirit of mutual understanding."
Herr Schulze arrived in Fort Lamy on Tuesday at the head of the first official delegation sent to Chad by East Germany. His team includes vice-Foreign Minister Wolfgang Kieswetter and other high ranking officials. The delegation also met with Chad Foreign Minister, M. Hassan Baba.
SYNOPSIS: The first East German delegation ever to visit Chad. arrived in Fort Lamy on Wednesday (August 18) for a series of talks with senior government officials. The delegation, which is led by East German Minister of Posts and Communications, Herr Rudolph Schulze, first met with Chad's Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Hassan Baba.
On Wednesday the delegation, which includes the vice-Foreign Minister, Wolfgang Kieswetter, called on President Francois Tombalbaye. Herr Schulze later described the talks as very friendly and marked by a spirit of mutual understanding
Herr Schulze said he and the President had a large number of points in common and "share the desire to co-operate in the interests of their two countries for peace and understanding between peoples."
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