- Title: KUWAIT: EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE OF ETHIOPIA STARTS THREE-DAY OFFICIAL VISIT.
- Date: 10th October 1966
- Summary: EMPEROR SELASSIE AT OIL INSTALLATION AND AL-SABAH HOSPITAL. Initials RGH/VS/CCT/PC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 25th October 1966 12:00
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- Location: KUWAIT
- Country: Kuwait
- Reuters ID: LVA2BFRGZ97B0071YGMTQQAM3FL5
- Story Text: EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE OF ETHIOPIA HAS HAD TALKS WITH THE AMIR OF KUWAIT ON RELATIONS BETWEEN THEIR TWO COUNTRIES AND ON INTERNATIONAL ISSUES. THE EMPEROR ARRIVED IN KUWAIT ON FRIDAY FOR A THREE-DAY OFFICIAL VISIT AND ON THE FIRST DAY SAW OIL INSTALLATIONS AND COMMUNITY PROJECTS.
THE FIRST DAY WAS A BUSY ROUND OF ENGAGEMENTS. EMPEROR HAILE SELASSSIE INSPECTED A SECONDARY SCHOOL AND LATER HEADED A MOTORCADE ONE MILE (NEARLY 2 KMS) LONG ACROSS A DESERT ROAD TO AHMADI.
IT IS FROM THE OILFIELDS SURROUNDING AHMADI THAT KUWAIT DRAWS ITS IMMENSE WEALTH AND, WITH COMPANY OFFICIALS, THE EMPEROR VISITED MANY OF THE OIL INSTALLATIONS.
IN THE AFTERNOON, EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE INSPECTED THE AL-SABAH HOSPITAL IN KUWAIT - ONE OF THE BEST-EQUIPPED IN THE WORLD - AND THAT NIGHT WAS HOST TO THE AMIR OF KUWAIT AT A DINNER.
THE EMPEROR IS NOW IN THE LEBANON ON THE SECOND STAGE OF HIS 2-WEEK MID-EAST TOUR.
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