IVORY COAST: QUEEN JULIANA AND PRINCE BERNHARD OF THE NETHERLANDS ARRIVE IN ABIDJAN DURING AFRICAN TOUR.

Record ID: 183731

  • Title: IVORY COAST: QUEEN JULIANA AND PRINCE BERNHARD OF THE NETHERLANDS ARRIVE IN ABIDJAN DURING AFRICAN TOUR.
  • Date: 19th February 1974
  • Summary: 1. GV Aircraft taxis in 0.08 2. SV President Huphouet-Boigny and party walk forward 0.15 3. SV Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard exit aircraft 0.17 4. SV Royal couple greeted (2 shots) 0.30 5. SV Houphouet-Boigny past guard of honour 0.35 6. SV Traditional drummers and dancers (2 shots) 0.51 7. CU PAN Dancers carrying portrait of the Royal couple 1.03 8. SV Queen waves as she enters airport building 1.10 Initials BB/2215 BL/MR/BB/2242 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 6th March 1974 12:00
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  • Location: ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • Reuters ID: LVAF326YB1IBJLKMGNV036EI2MUN
  • Story Text: Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and her husband Prince Bernhard arrived in the Ivory Coast capital, Abidjan, on Monday (18 February) for a three-day official visit.

    The Royal couple were greeted by President Felix Houphouet-Boigny on their arrival from the Senegalese capital, Dakar, where they stayed the previous night.

    Queen Juliana's visit to the Ivory Coast was in return for a state visit to the Netherlands in 1970 by President Houphouet-Boigny.

    At a banquet at the Republican Palace in honour of the Royal couple, President Houphoust-Boigny said the Netherlands had shown its confidence in the Ivory Coast economy by its investments there.

    He described cooperation between the two countries as a "precious link".

    Queen Juliana paid tribute to what she called the "great changes wrought" in the Ivory Coast.

    Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard were due to leave for a three-day official visit to Liberia on 23 February, after a two-day rest at the end of their Ivory Coast visit.

    The Royal couple are to return to the Netherlands on 26 February.

    SYNOPSIS: Ivory Coast dancers and drummers gave the Royal couple a traditional welcome. The Netherlands was once the third largest importer of Ivory Coast products -- mainly cocoa. But trade between the two countries has decreased in the past few years.
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