1.
GV TILT AIRPORT BUILDING
0.05

2.
MV DELEGATES GREETED OFF PLANE (3 SHOTS)
0.22

3.
MV DELEGATES MOVE ALONG
0.25

4.
GV DELEGATES
0.32

5.
GV PARTY TOWARDS AIRPORT BUILDING
0.36

6.
SV DELEGATES UP STEPS
0.40

7.
MV INT. FOREIGN MINISTER RIAD (EGYPT) AND ANOTHER DELEGATE
0.44

8.
CU RIAD
0.46

9.
CU SAUDI ARABIAN DELEGATE
0.51

10.
CV MAURITANIAN DELEGATE
0.54

11.
MV TWO AFRICAN DELEGATES
0.57

12.
CU AFRICAN DELEGATE
1.00

13.
CU ANOTHER AFRICAN DELEGATE
1.04

14.
CU JAPANESE DELEGATE
1.09



Initials JRG/S/JF/K



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Background: DELEGATIONS FROM THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC, SAUDI ARABIA, MAURITANIA, IRAN, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, INDONESIA AND MALAWAI FLEW TO ALGIERS YESTERDAY (THURSDAY) FOR THE AFRO-ASIAN FOREIGN MINISTERS CONFERENCE, NOW POSTPONED TILL TOMORROW.

THE FOREIGN MINISTERS ARE TO DISCUSS NEXT WEEK'S PROPOSED AFRO-ASIAN SUMMIT CONFERENCE. THE PLENARY SESSION OF THE MINISTERS WAS TO HAVE BEEN HELD LAST NIGHT BUT ONLY 26 DELEGATIONS HAD ARRIVED. ALGERIAN OFFICIALS WERE EXPECTING 46. NOT ALL DELEGATIONS ARE LED BY MINISTERS.

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA IS BOYCOTTING BOTH THE SUMMIT AND FOREIGN MINISTERS' CONFERENCE, INFORMAL TALKS AMONG DELEGATES ARE NOW GOING ON TO DISCUSS WHETHER THE SUMMIT SHOULD BE POSTPONED AGAIN. (LAST JUNE'S PROPOSED SUMMIT WAS PUT OFF BECAUSE OF THE COUP WHICH OUSTED RESIDENT BEN BELLA.)