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Chirac arrives in Guinea

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    French President Jacques Chirac arrived in Guinea on Wednesday at the start of a four-nation African tour that will also take him to Togo, Nigeria and Cameroon, news organisations reported. Officials say that his agenda covers bilateral cooperation, trade, regional security as well as the need for democracy and the rule of law to take root in Africa, Reuters said. Guinea's links with France were cut in 1958 after Conakry refused General Charles de Gaulle's offer of membership of a French African community and in October of the same year Guinea became independent. French support was withdrawn and nationalist leader Ahmed Sekou Toure set about constructing a new economic and administrative system based on Marxist principles. Chirac's predecessor, Francois Mitterand visited Guinea in 1987, Reuters said.

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