UK: KING FAISAL OF SAUDI ARABIA AT PRESS LUNCHEON AND EMBASSY RECEPTION.

Record ID: 189634

  • Title: UK: KING FAISAL OF SAUDI ARABIA AT PRESS LUNCHEON AND EMBASSY RECEPTION.
  • Date: 11th May 1967
  • Summary: DORCHESTER HOTEL; KING FAISAL AT PRESS LUNCHEON; KING MEETS GUESTS AT RECEPTION. Initials RGH/V/AS/EEH Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 26th May 1967 13:00
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  • Location: LONDON, U.K.
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  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA69TS2SWI69EH31AIT8WD3T1X5
  • Story Text: KING FAISAL OF SAUDI ARABIA TODAY (THURSDAY) HAD ANOTHER BUSY ROUND OF RECEPTIONS. HE ENDED HIS STAY AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE AND RODE FROM THERE TO A DIPLOMATIC CORPS RECEPTION AT ST. JAMES'S PALACE. THEN ON TO THE DORCHESTER HOTEL TO A LUNCHEON GIVEN BY THE FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION AND TONIGHT THE SAUDI ARABIAN AMBASSADOR WAS HOST AT A RECEPTION IN THE KING'S HONOUR -- ALSO AT THE DORCHESTER.

    KING FAISAL MOVE INTO THE DORCHESTER HOTEL TODAY FOR THE REMAINDER OF HIS STATE VISIT TO BRITAIN. HE HAS TAKEN OVER THE WHOLE OF THE SEVENTH FLOOR: THE 50 ROOMS ON THIS FLOOR COST MORE THAN GBP1,000 A DAY -- PAID FOR BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.

    AT THE FOREIGN PRESS LUNCHEON, KING FAISAL SPOKE ABOUT THE PROBLEMS FACING SAUDI ARABIA. HE SAID THE ORIGINS OF THE "TRAGIC STATE OF THINGS" IN HIS AREA WERE CAUSED BY OTHERS NOT COMPLYING WITH THE PRINCIPLE OF SELF-DETERMINATION, AND INTERFERENCE FROM SOME COUNTRIES IN THE AFFAIRS OF OTHERS.

    KING FAISAL, WHO'S SPENDING ANOTHER FIVE DAYS IN BRITAIN, MET MANY OF THE GUESTS AT THE RECEPTION TONIGHT GIVEN BY THE SAUDI ARABIAN AMBASSADOR. DOZENS OF PEOPLE THRONGED THE RECEPTION ROOMS AT THE DORCHESTER.

    TOMORROW THE KING WILL VISIT LONDON'S CENTRAL MOSQUE IN REGENTS PARK.
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