CEASE-FIRE SIGNED
Honduras And Nicaragua
(Rec. 9 p.m.) MANAGUA (Nicaragua), May 6. Nicaragua and Honduras agreed yesterday to a cease-fire in their border conflict.
The agreement, negotiated by a peace mission of the Organisation of American States, was held up several hours by unconfirmed reports of a new Honduran attack against a Nicaraguan town. But President Luis Somoza of Nicaragua signed the agreement which became effective upon word that the Honduras governing junta had also signed.
Honduras and Nicaragua agreed to “refrain from any activity including troop advances susceptible of aggravating the situation.” The organisation’s committee of five ambassadors has four days, to present a plan for withdrawal of troops from the frontier. The agreement specified that “measures are to be taken without prejudice” to legitimate territorial rights.
The agreements were negotiated with the committee. Mr Ricardo Arias, of Panama, its chairman, signed with President Somoza, The group will go to Tegucigalpa, in the Honduras, today for a formal signing ceremony there. Reports of continued fighting inside Nicaragua remained unconfirmed and orders to send reinforcements to the area were later countermanded. One report told of an attack on the village of Yalaguina. about 18 miles inside undisputed Nicaraguan territory, but the Govern* ment apparently decided it was a false alarm.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28270, 7 May 1957, Page 14
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