MASSAMBA-DEBAT, TRAIKOVA AND OTHERS' MASSAMBA-DEBAT AT TOMB OF GEORGI DIMITROV.




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Background: PRESIDENT ALPHONESE MASSAMBA-DEBAT WHILE ON A STATE VISIT TO BULGARIA LAST WEEK MET THE COUNTRY'S HEAD OF STATE, GEORGI TRAIKOV, FOR DISCUSSIONS IN SOFIA.

DURING THE COURSE OF TUESDAY'S (11 JUNE) MEETING, WHICH WAS ALSO ATTENDED BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS, TODOR ZHIVKOV, PRESIDENT MASSAMBA-DEBAT WAS AWARDED WITH THE ORDER OF STARA PLANINA.

PRESIDENT MASSAMBA-DEBAT ARRIVED IN SOFIA ON MONDAY (10 JUNE) FOR A THREE-DAY VISIT, THE PURPOSE OF WHICH WAS THOUGH TO BE THE PROMOTION OF DIPLOMATIC, ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.

HE CAME TO BULGARIA FROM A SIMILAR MISSION IN RUMANIA. A COMMUNIQUE ISSUED ON HIS DEPARTURE SAID HE AND PRESIDENT NICOLAE CEAUSESCU HAD DISCUSSES SUCH MATTERS AND WENT ON TO SAY THAT THEY "REAFFIRMED THEIR SYMPATHY AND SOLIDARITY WITH PEOPLES STRUGGLING AGAINST IMPERIALISM, COLONIALISM AND NEO-COLONIALISM."
AFTER HIS MEETING WITH MR. TRAIKOV ON TUESDAY PRESIDENT MASSAMBA-DEBAT WENT ON LAY ON WREATH AT THE TOMB OF BULGARIAN LEADER AND STATESMAN GEORGI DIMITROV.