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French Veto Move In U.N. Opposing Vote in Comoro Isle
February 7, 1976, Page 8Buy Reprints
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Feb. 6 (AP)—France vetoed a resolution tonight in the Security Council that would have asked the French to call off a referendum Sunday on Mayotte in the Comoro Islands.
The vote was 11 to 1 with three abstentions, one by the United States.
The referendum is to determine the political wishes of the people of Mayotte, one of four islands in the Comoro group off southeast Africa between Madagascar and Mozambique.
In a referendum in 1974, Mayotte voted to remain part of France, while the other Comoro islands voted for independence. The new state was formed last July.
Five nonaligned nations had proposed that the Security Council call for cancellation of the new referendum on Mayotte.
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