Agreement
Algiers Accord, 1974
Portugal's post-revolutionary Junta of National Salvation and the PAIGC signed the Algiers Accord on 26 August 1974, setting the terms for Portugal's formal recognition of Guinea-Bissau's independence.
What happened
On 25 April 1974 a military coup in Portugal, later called the Carnation Revolution, overthrew the authoritarian Estado Novo regime and opened the way to negotiated decolonisation of Portugal's African territories.[1] Portugal's post-revolutionary Junta of National Salvation and the PAIGC signed the Algiers Accord on 26 August 1974, setting the terms for Portugal's formal recognition of Guinea-Bissau's independence the following month; no named individual negotiators beyond the two institutional parties were identified in the sources consulted for this bundle.[2]
Sources for this page
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Claim: On 25 April 1974 a military coup in Portugal, later called the Carnation Revolution, overthrew the authoritarian Estado Novo regime and opened the way to negotiated decolonisation of Portugal's African territories, including Guinea-Bissau.
- Carnation Revolution (Wikipedia) link, Coup and aftermath sections. Source record
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Claim: Portugal's post-revolutionary Junta of National Salvation and the PAIGC signed the Algiers Accord on 26 August 1974, setting the terms for Portugal's formal recognition of Guinea-Bissau's independence; no named individual negotiators beyond the two institutional parties were identified in the sources consulted for this bundle.
- Algiers Accord (Guinea-Bissau) (Wikipedia) link, Algiers Accord section. Source record