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66. Memorandum of Conversation

e once they were eligible for pensions, and that since independence interest in the country had grown among the emigrants more and more were returning as visitors. The Vice President then told Pires that he had had good visits to Senegal, Niger, and Nigeria, See Documents 63 – 65 . where he had had comprehensive exchanges of views with their leaders. During his talk with Pires, he especially wanted to hear the Government of Cape Verde’s concerns, to know how our assistance was working and what more we could do to help, since that was our desire. He then hoped to hear Pires’ views on Angola, a …