Aidit said. "We should thank Colonel Boumedienne for his efforts to create a better atmosphere in the final days preceding the Afro-Asian conference."
Another expert in Algerian affairs for whom the coup d'état apparently came as no surprise was General Nguyen Cao Ky, the puppet dictator of South Vietnam. He recognized Boumedienne on June 20 even before Sukarno and Aidit, making it almost as fast as Peking.
The Reuter news agency reported that General Ky was planning to head a delegation of thirty members that counted on going to Algiers for the Afro-Asian conference even though they had not been invited,
In contrast to this, the delegation of the Front for National Liberation, the organization of the South Vietnamese freedom fighters, which had been scheduled to leave June 19 for the Afro-Asian conference in Algiers, postponed their trip pending clarification of the situation.
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