A TRIBUTE TO THE PROGRESS ACHIEVED BY PARLIAMENTARY MEMBERS IN THE PAST YEAR AND A CALL FOR EVEN GREATER EFFORTS DURING THE LEGISLATIVE YEAR WERE MADE AT THE OPENING OF A NEW SESSION OF THE CHAD NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IN FORT LAMY YESTERDAY (WEDNESDAY). THE SESSION WAS PRESIDED OVER BY THE SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT, M. PAUL RARIKINGAR, IN THE ABSENCE OF THE ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT M. ADOUM TCHERE.

THE OPENING WAS ATTENDED BY THE COUNTRY'S HEAD OF STATE, PRESIDENT FRANCOIS TOMBALBAYE.

REFERRING TO THE STIRRING APPEAL MADE BY PRESIDENT TOMBALBAYE AT THE OPENING OF THE PREVIOUS SESSION, LAST YEAR, M. RARINGAR SAID THE ASSEMBLY MEMBERS HAD A VERY IMPORTANT TASK AHEAD OF THEM IN LEADING, EDUCATING AND ORGANISING THE CHAD PEOPLE IN THE FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY.

PRESIDENT TOMBALBAYE, IN OPENING YESTERDAY'S NEW SESSION, PAID TRIBUTE TO THE WORK OF ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, M. TCHERE, AND HIS EFFORTS IN HELPING TO SOLVE THE COUNTRY'S ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL PROBLEMS.

HE SAID THERE WAS A BIG TASK AHEAD TO PREPARE THE CHAD PEOPLE THE IDEAS AND EMOTIONAL CHANGES THAT THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION WOULD BRING. MUCH WAS BEING ACHIEVED THROUGH APPROACHES TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY.