BELGIAN REBUFF
No Visa For Tshombe (NX. Prets Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, August 8. President Tshombe of Katanga was last night refused a visa to land in Belgium. reported the “Daily Mail." It said he was at present in Geneva having a medical check-up and had planned to fly to Brussels today. The newspaper reported from Brussels that the Belgian Foreign Office said Mr Tshombe was undesirable in Belgium for the moment. The newspaper said the Katanga Foreign Minister. Mr Evariste Kimba. had called a press conference in Belgium a few weeks ago, though officially on a private visit, and bitterly attacked Belgium, the United Nations and the Western Powers in general.
The central Congolese Government has announced measures to put pressure on secessionist Katanga. All telecommunications between Katanga and the outside world were ordered to be suspended from yesterday. Flights between Elisabethville and the outside will in future have to stop at Leopoldville {or visa and immigration checks.
Action will be taken against commercial firms operating both in Katanga and other parts of the Congo. The United Nations also announced it had stopped giv.ng special permits to companies flying in Katanga.
This was to avoid the impression of giving them United Nations protection.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29897, 10 August 1962, Page 20
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