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Telegram 99708 From the Department of State to the Embassy in Nigeria, June 18, 1969, 2131Z
Abstract
June 18, 1969, 2131Z
The Department transmitted Ferguson's June 18 press release in which he stated that there was agreement by the FMG and Biafran authorities to a surface corridor up the Cross River and that the ICRC had undertaken to manage the new relief arrangement.
Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Files 1967-69, POL 27-9 Biafra-Nigeria. Unclassified; Immediate. Repeated priority to Addis Ababa. Also repeated to Cotonou, The Hague, Lome, London, Paris, USUN, Ibadan and Kaduna. Drafted by Raymond L. Perkins (AF/P), cleared in P/ON, and approved by Perkins.
The Department transmitted Ferguson's June 18 press release in which he stated that there was agreement by the FMG and Biafran authorities to a surface corridor up the Cross River and that the ICRC had undertaken to manage the new relief arrangement.
Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Files 1967-69, POL 27-9 Biafra-Nigeria. Unclassified; Immediate. Repeated priority to Addis Ababa. Also repeated to Cotonou, The Hague, Lome, London, Paris, USUN, Ibadan and Kaduna. Drafted by Raymond L. Perkins (AF/P), cleared in P/ON, and approved by Perkins.
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Editor: Azuka Nzegwu.
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