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COPETAO receives Léopold Sedar Senghor

By Mélanie Perceval

Published on February 14th 2018, modified on June 23rd 2020

The "Ile de FrancePays FranceShow more" platform built in Rotterdam has just arrived in Dakar. It symbolizes the offshore drilling campaign that Total Oil Company West Africa will undertake from 1966.

On this occasion, Jacques Nizery, President of COPETAO receives the Head of State of Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and his wife at a reception in their honour.

Handshake between the two men. Image taken from the magazine Total Flash No. 3 December 1965-May 1966, produced by Les films de la Maîtrise.

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