FRANCE: KING FAISAL OF SAUDI ARABIA ARRIVES FOR A ONE-WEEK OFFICIAL VISIT AND GREETED BY PRESIDENT POMPIDOU.
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189706
FRANCE: KING FAISAL OF SAUDI ARABIA ARRIVES FOR A ONE-WEEK OFFICIAL VISIT AND GREETED BY PRESIDENT POMPIDOU.
- Title: FRANCE: KING FAISAL OF SAUDI ARABIA ARRIVES FOR A ONE-WEEK OFFICIAL VISIT AND GREETED BY PRESIDENT POMPIDOU.
- Date: 14th May 1973
- Summary: 1. GV EXT Elysee Palace 0.5 2. GTV ZOOM TO SV Faisal arrives by car and greeted by Pompidou 0.27 3. GV INT Pompidou and Faisal enter 0.32 4. SV & CU Pompidou introduces Faisal to Cabinet Ministers (2 shots) 0.48 5. GV/TV Faisal and Saudi Arabian delegates talks with French Cabinet Ministers 1.02 Initials BB/0402 DH/BOB/BB/0410 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 29th May 1973 13:00
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- Location: PARIS, FRANCE
- Country: France
- Reuters ID: LVA7ZCTO11SG51DFT7KAIAENF1DZ
- Story Text: King Festal of Saudi Arabia arrived in Paris, on Monday (14 May) for an official one-week visit to France. He was met at Orly airport by France's President, Georges Pompidou.
Following the airport ceremony, in which a guard of honour fired a IOI-gun salute, the two leaders drove to the Elysee Palace for the first of three rounds of talks they will have during the King's visit.
King Faisal's visit is the first by a Saudi Arabian monarch to France, and one of his main preoccupations will be the possible purchase of a new model of the French mirage jet fighter aircraft.
Saudi Arabia wants to expand it's airforce and replace its British Lightning supersonic fighters with more sophisticated aircraft in the second half of this decade.
In the face of tough competition from Britain and the United States, the French government is trying to make a multi-million dollar deal with Saudi Arabia.
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