MAURITANIA: OPENING OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE SELECTION COMMITTEE OF THE PANAFRICAN YOUTH

Record ID: 872697

  • Title: MAURITANIA: OPENING OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE SELECTION COMMITTEE OF THE PANAFRICAN YOUTH
  • Date: 4th October 1969
  • Summary: CONFERENCE BUILDING; DELEGATES ARRIVING & DURING SESSION; PRES. SALHI KHIER SPEAKING; MOHAMED SIDI ALI SPEAKING. Initials LD/VS/JH/SGM Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 19th October 1969 13:00
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  • Location: NOUAKCHOTT, MAURITANIA
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  • Country: Mauritania
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  • Reuters ID: LVA9T7OXZV72OBNJL860FZXS0KQO
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  • Story Text: MAURITANIA PLAYED HOST TO REPRESENTATIVES OF MALI, ALGERIA, TANZANIA AND FRELIMO AT THE OPENING SESSION OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE SELECTION COMMITTEE OF THE PANAFRICAN YOUTH MOVEMENT (MPJ), ON THE MORNING OF OCTOBER 1ST. THE MEETING WAS OPENED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE MPJ NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, ALGERIA'S SALHI KHIER; AND ADDRESSED BY MR MOHAMED SIDI ALI - GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE YOUTH MOVEMENT.

    THE DELEGATION FROM THE OTHER FOUR GROUPS - UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC, GUINEA, PAIGC AND CONGO-KINSHASA - WERE EXPECTED TO ARRIVE FOR THE AFTERNOON SESSION OF THE OPENING DAY.

    IN HIS OPENING SPEECH, PRESIDENT SALHI KHIER OUTLINED THE GREAT INTEREST SHOWN BY THE YOUTH OF AFRICA IN THE MPJ IN ITS EFFORT TO FORM THE SELECTION COMMITTEE WHICH WOULD GUIDE THEM TO SERVE THE INTERESTS OF THEIR NATIONS.

    ON HIS PART, MR MOHAMED SIDI ALI SPOKE OF THE COMMITTEE'S GREAT ESTEEM FOR THE PANAFRICAN YOUTH MOVEMENT BECAUSE OF ITS REVOLUTIONARY IDEALS AND ITS UNFLAGGING FIGHT FOR THE UNITY OF THE CONTINENT.
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