BUILDINGS; SIGN; DELEGATES AT MEETING.




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Background: THE EXECUTIVE BUREAU OF THE ALL AFRICAN TRADE UNION FEDERATION........AATUF.... STARTED A TWO-DAY MEETING IN ALGIERS YESTERDAY (WEDNESDAY).

THE MEETING OF 14 DELEGATES FROM EIGHT COUNTRIES WAS CALLED TO REVIEW THE TRADE UNION SITUATION AND THE LATEST POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN AFRICA.

THE OPENING SESSION WAS HELD AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE ALGERIAN LABOUR FEDERATION.....UCTA.

THE LAST MEETING OF THE BUREAU WAS HELD IN DAR ES SALAAM IN AUGUST LAST YEAR. AATUF HAS ITS HEADQUARTERS IN THE TANZANIAN CAPITAL.

TRADE UNION SOURCES IN ALGIERS SAID THAT ONE SUBJECT. THE DELEGATES WOULD DISCUSS WAS THE POSITION OF THE ORGANISATION ITSELF .... ITS MOROCCAN PRESIDENT, MAJHOUB BEN SEDDIK, IS UNDER DETENTION IN HIS OWN COUNTRY. THERE WOULD ALSO BE DISCUSSION ON THE WORLD POLITICAL SITUATION.

THE EIGHT COUNTRIES REPRESENTED AT THE TWO-DAY MEETING OF THE BUREAU ARE ALGERIA, GUINEA, MALI, MOROCCO, UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC, UPPER VOLTA, TANZANIA, AND ZAMBIA. THE DELEGATION FROM MALI WAS LED BY M. MAMADOU SISSOKO, THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF AATUF.