Declaration

Portugal recognises Guinea-Bissau, 1974

Following its April 1974 revolution, Portugal formally recognised the independence of Guinea-Bissau on 10 September 1974.

What happened

Following the April 1974 revolution in Portugal, which opened the way to negotiated decolonisation, and the Algiers Accord signed by Portugal's Junta of National Salvation and the PAIGC on 26 August 1974, Portugal formally recognised the independence of Guinea-Bissau on 10 September 1974, according to the scholarly reference work Encyclopedia of African History — nearly a year after the PAIGC's unilateral declaration and the UN General Assembly's welcome of it.[1][2] By this point, several states had already recognised Guinea-Bissau individually, including Yugoslavia (10 May 1974), Egypt (11 June 1974) and Senegal (10 August 1974); no verified aggregate count of the total number of states recognising Guinea-Bissau by this date was found, and widely repeated claims of "over 80 states" are treated as unverified.[3]

Sources for this page

Each number marks a specific claim. Notes give the source, its locator and how it relates to the claim.

  1. 1.

    Claim: Following its April 1974 revolution, Portugal formally recognised the independence of Guinea-Bissau on 10 September 1974.

    • Shillington, Kevin, Encyclopedia of African History (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005) , Guinea-Bissau entry. Source record
  2. 2.

    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
  3. 3.

    Claim: Following the PAIGC's September 1973 declaration, individual states recognised Guinea-Bissau on dated occasions including the Soviet Union (6 October 1973), Hungary (15 October 1973), Czechoslovakia (19 October 1973), Yugoslavia (10 May 1974), Egypt (11 June 1974) and Senegal (10 August 1974); no verified aggregate count of the total number of states that had recognised Guinea-Bissau by any given date was found, and widely repeated claims of "over 80 states" are treated as unverified.

    • International recognition of Guinea-Bissau (Wikipedia) link, International recognition section. Source record

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