PRESIDENT DADDAH ARRIVING AT DAKAR; WELCOME BY PRESIDENT SENGHOR.




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Background: PRESIDENT MOKTAR OULD DADDAH OF MAURITANIA ARRIVED AT DAKAR IN SENEGAL ON WEDNESDAY FOR A ONE-DAY VISIT. DURING HIS BRIEF STAY HE HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH THE SENEGALESE LEADER, PRESIDENT LEOPOLD SENGHOR.

NO STATEMENT WAS ISSUED AFTER THE TWO LEADERS' DISCUSSIONS, BUT PRESIDENT DADDAH TOLD REPORTERS HE AND PRESIDENT SENGHOR HAD AGREED ON THE AFRICAN AND NON-AFRICAN TOPICS THEY HAD DISCUSSED.

ONE MAJOR TOPIC UNDERSTOOD TO HAVE BEEN RAISED WAS THE SENEGAL-INTER-STATE COMMITTEE. MAURITANIA, SENEGAL, MALI AND GUINEA ARE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE, FORMED TO INVESTIGATE WAYS OF DEVELOPING THE ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF THE SENEGAL RIVER.