KENYA DEFENSE MINISTRY ISSUES STATEMENT ON AIR FORCE CRASHES

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• Publication Date: June 20, 1975
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DEFENSE MINISTRY ISSUES STATEMENT ON AIR FORCE CRASHES
Nairobi Domestic Service in English 1800 GMT 19 Jun 75 LD/EA
[Text] The Ministry of Defense in Nairobi has issued a statement clarifying reports
which appeared in a local newspaper today, which gave an impression that there might
have been two aircraft crashes involving Kenya Air Force planes.
A spokesman for the Defense Ministry pointed out that the second aircraft, a Caribou,
did not make an emergency landing as reported by the newspaper. He said the Caribou,
which was sent from Nairobi to investigate the incident, had to land at Kisumu airport
at night, using the lights of a vehicle on the ground as a means of lighting up the
runway. This, he said, is a well-known procedure which was carried out with the
assistance of the police at the request of the pilot.
The spokesman pointed out that, while reporting a previous Kenya Air Force crash during
Madaraka [self-government] Day, the same newspaper had made a similar error reporting
that another air force plane had made an emergency landing at Embakasi. He said the
Kenya Air Force plane in question made a normal landing, so that the crew could go and
find out what had happened to the aircraft which had crashed.
Kampala Dom.-tie Service in English 1900 GMT 18 Jun 75 LD/EA
[Text] A Kenyan assistant minister has urged the three East African heads of state to
,/ i meet as soon as possible, to iron out territorial differences threatening the region's
unity.
Citing what he called a "cat and mouse friendship" between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania,
the assistant minister for natural resources, Mr Maisori Itumbo, said the three heads
of state should meet and hammer out [words indistinct]. There is no point in having
friendship, when citizens of (?the respective) countries have been subjected to
(?inhumanities) by (?neighbors). The three heads of state, who together make up the East
African''Community Authority, have) not met dince 1971.
~/r t BRIEFS /
DEVELOPMENT ASSIS2ANCE FROM NORWAY--The Kenya Government has received grants totaling
over 108 million shi l ings from Norway to boost economic development in the rural areas
during the period 1975-76. This was revealed in Nairobi today during the signing of an
agreement between the Government of Kenya and the Kingdom of Norway, during ::hich old
agreements on economic cooperation between the two countries were renewed. Today Is
agreement sets the terms and conditions under which Iiortwray will give Kenya development
assistance. By the end of last year Norway had. contributed sore than 220 million
shillings to the development o.' Kenya, mainly in the area of rural development. [Text]
[Nairobi Domestic Service in2nglish 1300 !.MT 17 Jun 75 LD/EA ]
USSR TO GIVE AID IN RESETTLEMENT, FISHING INDUSTRY
Mog;a discio domes tie Tcl ,rice lin 2o:!ali _ :; G i'
[Text] Somalia and the Soviet Union yesterday evening signed an econor: ,t---rnVcration
agreement under which the former will obtain an assistance fund of 375'mi1lion shilling:
for development projects in the country.
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VIII. 20 Jun 75 E A S T AFRICA
ETHIOPIA
PAPER SAYS S. AFRICAN RACIST RULE DOOMED
Peking NCNA in English 1540 GMT 13 Jun 75 OW
[Text] Addis Ababa, June 13, 1975 (HSINHUA)--The ETHIOPIAN HERALD in an editorial today
points out that there is little room for fruitful discussion on the question of Namibia
and the Namibian people therefore have no choice but to carry out and intensify their
armed struggle.
The editorial condemns the United States, Britain and France for vetoing the draft
resolution on the Namibia question sponsored by Cameroon and four other states in the
Security Council last Friday. It declares that it is high time for Vorster and his
clique to hand over power to the Namibian people.
Referring to the racist rule, it points out that the hideous oppressive measures against
the people in Southern Africa and the vetoes in the Security Council cannot prevent its
end in the near future.
Kuwait Domestic Service in English 1730 GMT 18 Jun 75 LD
[Text] The official spokesman of the Eritrean Liberation Front, Popular Liberation
Forces, Osman Saleh Sabbe, held a press conference at the frontts headquarters in Kuwait
this evening in which he spoke about the circumstances confronting the Liberation Front
at the present time. Mr Osman made a press statement in which he condemned the policy
of annihilation pursued by the Ethiopian authorities against the Eritrean people and
revolution. He added that ,this policy was similar to that adopted by the Israeli
authorites in occupied Palestine. Mr Osman went on to say that this policy has so far
failed to achieve its target as the 3 million people in Eritrea had not left their
homeland with the exception of 110,000 people presently living in the Sudan. The official
spokesman of the Eritrean Liberation Front at the same time extended thanks to the Arab
states for their support to Eritrea. He also thanked the government and people of Kuwait
for their support extended to the E?_ itrean revolution.
YUGOSLAV DELEGATION--Addis Ababa, June 11; (TANJUG)--The
Military of Ethiopia, General Tefari Banti, has
Executive oancil Vajo SIsendzic, who heads the Yugoslav
the Yugoslav Ethiopian mixed committee for economic and
Present at the reception were also the other members of
Yugoslav ambassador in Addis Ababa,
talk of some length held on that occasion views
bilateral relations and on international matters. Expressing gratitude to President
Tito and to the peoples and Government of Yugoslavia for support given to the present'
progressive changes in his country, President Tefari Banti said that support is another
confirmation of sincere [words indistinct]. [Text] (Belgrade TA1.T_rtJO ifl fish 1630 GMT
14 Jun 75 LD)
president of the Provisional
received member of the Federal
delegation to the session of
technological cooperation.
the Yugoslav delegation, as
Aleksandar Vojinovic. At the friendly
were exchanged on the development of
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It WITH ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT NOW POSTPONED AND WITH NO RPT
NO IMMEDIATE REASON TO SOFT PEDAL HIS SOVIET CONNECTION.
SIAD HAS BEGUN CAMPAIGN LAVISHLY PHAISING SOVIET CONTRIBUTION
.TO SOMALIA AND HISTORIC TIES WHICH BIND USSR AND SOMALI
TOGETHER, SIAD-S NOISY PRAISE OF USSR HAS BEEN ECHOED IN
SOMALI MEDIA AS WELL, IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF SIAD'S PUBLIC
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STRINGINESS DURING RECENT DROUGHT EMERGENCY.
21 SIAD BEGAN HIS CAMPAIGN IN SPEECH TO SOMALI OFFICIALS,
CIVIL SERVANTS AND YOUTH CADRES EVENING OF JUNE 18, HE DISGRESSED
FROM HIS PRINCIPAL TOPIC FOR EVENING AND PRAISED RECENT
SOVIET AID PACKAGE -- TRUCKS, AIRPLANES, ETC. -^ BUT ALSO PAUSED
TO PUT SOMALI DEBT TO USSR IN LARGER TERMS AS WELL,
3, HE TOLD HIS AUDIENCE THAT SOMALI PEOPLE SHOULD REMEMBER
THAT SOVIET UNION QTE PULLED SOMALIA FROM ,,THE SEA UNQTE AT
A TIME WHEN ITS NATIONAL EXISTENCE WAS IN DANGER, DOMALIA
WOULD NEVER FORGET THAT HELP. SOMALIA WAS GRATEFUL TO OTHERS
WHO HAD ALSO AIDED IN RECENT CRISIS BUT SOMALI-SOVIET BOND
WAS OF SPECIAL NATURE, OF A KIND WHICH COULD ONLY SE FELT
9Y NATION WHICH OWED ITS LIFE TO ANOTHER.
'~yk, HE REBUKED THOSE WHO CRITICIi~ED USSR FOR FAILURE TO GIVE
PIORE GENEROUSLY TO SOMALI DROUGHT RELIEF. HE URGED PEOPLE TO
GIVE THANKS TO USSR AND TO IGNORE THOSE IDLERS WHO SAT IN TEA
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SHOPS AND CARPED ABOU1 SOVIET AID,
5, SIAD CONTINED IN SAME VEIN EVEN MORE EMPHATICALLY DURING
JUNE 19 SPEECH MARKING FIRST SOVIET AIRLIFT OF SOMALI NOMADS
FROM REFUGEE CAMPS TO RESETTLEMENT SITES. SIAD SAID SOVIET
DROUGHT ASSSISTANCE PROVED EXTENT OF SOVIET/SOMALI FRIENDSHIP.
ENABLED SOMALIA TO DISTINGUISH FRIENDS FROM ENEMIESo AND OPENED
NEW PAGE IN SOVIET/SOMALI RELATIONS, HIS REMARKKS WERE HEADLINED
IN OKTOBER STAR, JUNE 21,
6, SIAD'S REMARKS OF JUNE 18 AND 19 MARK FIRST TIME HE HAS
DEALT OPENLY WITH PUEILIC DISSATISFACTION OF LEVEL OF SOVIET
RELIEF.IN AIDING SOMALIA DURING CURRENT DROUGHT, (DURING
FAST SEVERAL MONTHS, HE HAS ALSO TENDED DOWNPLAY IN ANY CASE
SOVIET ROLE IN SOMALIi, AS HE GEARED UP FOR ARAB SUMMIT
CONFERENCE IN MOGADISCIO,) NEWLY ANNOUNCED SOVIET/SOMALI
ECONOMIC PACKAGE IS FIRST TIME HOWEVER THAT SOVIETS HAVE
GIVEN SIAD STICK BIG ENOUGH TO IMPRESS THOSE WHO HAVE COMPLAINED
THE USSR DROUGHT RELIEF WAS NIGGARDLY COMPARED WITH THAT OF
OTHER DONORS PARTICJLARLY FROM WESTERN COUNTRIES, WE SUSPECT
IT IS STICK SIAD HAS LONG BEEN LOOKING FOR,
7, DURING PAST SIX MONTHS, SOVIET COMMODITY RELIEF R!.
PRINCIPALLY CORN ^? HAS BEEN OF POOR QUALITY, HAS COME LATE
AND IN MODEST AMOUNTS, IT WAS NOT RPT NOT UNTIL MAY THAT
USSR ANNOUNCED PLEDGE OF ADDITIONAL 10,000 MT OF CORN (PURCHASED 1,.3,,.
I T"H`ArLAND) ~I1IGH POSHED ITS FOOD GRAIN HELP TO 20,000 MT,
WHICH IS ONLY 5,000 M7 ABOVE THAT PLEDGED'BY US, MOREOVER,
ADC OFFICIALS HAVE COMPLAINED THAT SOVIET FURNISHED-CORN
HAS BEEN TOTALLY UNSATISFACTORY FOR SOMALI CONSUMERS,
8, WHILE $60 MILLIN IN ECONOMIC AID MAY LOOK LIKE A MAJOR
RESPONSE TO SOMALI ECONOMIC NEEDS, THE MAKE-UP OF NEW PACKAGE
SUGGESTS THAT ITS DOLLAR VALUE IS PROBABL,Y .GR,DS.SLY OVER$TA,TED,
MOREOVER, THE TWO AREAS OF ASSISTANCE TO WHICH THE NEW PACKAGE
IS DIRECTED SERVE POLITICAL NO LESS THAN HUMANITARIAN ENDS.
A, A REST' USSR IS GIVING TRUCKS AND LOANING
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IA 6 AN'12 TRANSPORTS TO AIRLIFT NOMADS FROM REFUGEE
CAMPS TO RESETTLEMENT SITES (AGRICULTURE AND FISHING), THE
ALTERNATIVE TO A SPEEDY RESETTLEMENT IS THE GRADUAL RETURN
OF REFUGEES TO BUSH, 14ITH AN EQUIVALENT LOSS., TO GSDR IN
)w`ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CONTROL, RAPID RESETTLEMENT IS AS
MUCH A POLITICAL AS AN ECONOMIC GOAL WHICH SOVIETS STRONGLY SUPPORT,
Be DOASTtAL FI.SHERIESI AID FOR OFFSHORE FISHING IS ANOTHER
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DEVELOPMENT, WHICH HAS BOTH ECONOMIC AND MILITARY ADVANTAGES,
IT.IS NOT RPT NOT AN AREA WHICH USSR WISHES TO SHARE WITH OTHER
DONORS.
9, WHILE NEW SOVIET AID PACKAGE GIVES SIAD THE HELP HE HAS
BEEN LOOKING FOR IN ANSWERING PUBLIC CRITICISM OF SOVIET AID,
IT WILL NOT RPT NOT SATISFY THOSE SOMALIS FOR WHOM CRITICISM
OF SOVIET RELIEF EFFORT HAS BEEN MOST CONVENIENT WAY OF SHOWING
DISPLEASURE AT SOVIET PRESENCE, HAMRICK
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3*e9JECT: NEW SOVIET-SOMALI ECONOMIC AGREEMENT
1, SOVIET UNION AND SOMALIA SIGNED AGREEMENT IN MOGADISCIO
ON JUNE 18 FOR FU;RTI7ER DEVELOPING ECONOMIC AND TECHNICAL
COOPERATION, NEW AGREEMENT CALLS FOR TOTAL OF 375 MILLION
SO SHS (US $60 MILLION) IN ADDITIONAL SOVIET ASSISTANCE.
2, ACCORDING TO DIETAILS OF AGREEMENT PUBLICIZED IN SONNA
NEWS BULLETIN OF JUNE 1 9 k USSR WILL GIVE $85 4-5 ASSA/ SrAA/,CE
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AREAS IN SOUTH AN IN FISHINP SETTLEMENTS ALONG COAST.
ASSISTANCE IS IN FORM OF 130 RUSSIAN-BUII,.T TRUCKS FOR
FUTURE DELIVERY. ESETTLEMENT ALSO INCLUDES LOAN OF
SIX AN-12 TRANSPORT PLWRES TO MOVE REFUGEES FROM CAMPS
TO NEW SETTLEMENTS, FYI: WE UNDERSTAND AT LEAST ONE
AN-12 HAS ALREADYjARRIVED IN SOMALIA AND THAT TRANSFER
OF REFUGEES WILL BEGIN WITHIN NEXT SEVERAL DAYS.
4, FISHING DEVELOPMENT: A,__U_S_S_R _WI_L,I.`G1 ' GRANT AI I1_
RECENT VISIT TO MOSCOW, ___.__ _ DedFzE,vT.
3, REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT: USSR WILL PROVIDE GRANT ASSISTANCE
TO GSDR FOR RESETjTL,ING SOMALI DROUGHT REFUGEES IN AGRICULTURAL
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