Скачать или смотреть General Idi Amin Opens the Uganda-Tanzania Border After a 6-Month Closure | Mutukula | November 1971

Sunday, November 21st 1971.

Reuters Story Text:

Uganda's President Idi Amin arrived the town of Mutukula on Sunday to reopen his country's border with neighbouring Tanzania. He was met by kenyan Ministers who had been instrumental in the negotiations leading to the reopening.

President Amin cut the ribbon over the border with the wards, "I open this border for God and my country."

The President and his party then entered a prison that had been damaged by shellfire during the border troubles. Sunday was the first time the border had been open since July, when fears of an invasion by guerrillas led to its closure.

President Amin also announced that all telephone, air and lake steamer communications with Tanzania would be restored immediately.

Source: Reuters News Archive.