UK: IVORY COAST'S NEW AMBASSADOR TO BRITAIN PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO QUEEN.

Record ID: 183290

  • Title: UK: IVORY COAST'S NEW AMBASSADOR TO BRITAIN PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO QUEEN.
  • Date: 4th November 1969
  • Summary: IVORY COAST EMBASSY, EXTERIOR AND ENTRANCE, AMBASSADOR LEAVING IN FULL DRESS, STAFF PROPOSING TOAST, AMBASSADOR LEAVING IN HORSE-DRAWN CARRIAGE WITH WIFE, CARRIAGE INTO BUCKINGHAM PALACE GROUNDS. Initials CG/V/AS/SGM Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 19th November 1969 13:00
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  • Location: LONDON, UK
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  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA6B4R8B246AYDLMQ3HRYX4VER9
  • Story Text: MR HONORE POLMEMU, THE IVORY COAST'S NEWLY-APPOINTED AMBASSADOR TO BRITAIN, PRESENTED HIS CREDENTIALS TO THE QUEEN AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE TODAY (TUESDAY).

    MR POLMEMU, WHO IS 39, WAS APPOINTED TO THE KEY BRITISH AMBASSADORIAL POSITION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE IVORY COAST, FELIX HOUPHOEUT-BOIGNY. ONE OF HIS MAJOR TASKS WILL BE TO MAINTAIN AND INCREASE THE HEALTHY TRADE LINKS THAT EXIST BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE IVORY COAST.

    BEFORE LEAVING THE EMBASSY IN LONDON'S UPPER BELGRAVE STREET TODAY, MR POLMEMU AND HIS WIFE WERE TOASTED ON THEIR WAY TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE BY MEMBERS OF THE EMBASSY STAFF.

    THEN, IN FULL AMBASSADORIAL DRESS, HE LEFT BY HORSE-DRAWN CARRIAGE FOR THE CEREMONIAL DRIVE THROUGH LONDON TO THE PALACE, WHERE HE PRESENTED HIS CREDENTIALS TO QUEEN ELIZABETH.

    MR POLMEMU IS ONE OF THE YOUNGEST AMBASSADORS TO REPRESENT A MAJOR COUNTRY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
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