King Mohammed VI, accompanied by his brother Prince Moulay Rachid, received on Monday in the southern city of Ouarzazate, the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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During this audience the King hailed the traditional strategic partnership between the two friendly countries strengthened since the mid-nineties and marked in particular by a regular diversified political dialogue structured economic ties and reinforced cooperation to promote regional peace and security. The Monarch also voiced commitment to promoting these important achievements with US President Barack Obama and expressed his high appreciation for the committed constructive role played by the US administration throughout the world building on an approach based on dialogue consultation and mutual respect.
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Mrs Clinton also attended with the king and Moulay Rachid the the ceremony of presenting Morocco’s solar energy project worth about nine billion dollars,and which is a national and ambitious project seeks to achieve a 2,000 megawatt capacity by 2020. This production capacity accounts for 38% of the electric power at the end of 2008 and 14% by 2020,Five sites were identified for the project which is in line with Morocco’s energy strategy,namely Ouarzazate,Ain Bni Mathar,Foum AlOued,Boujdour and Sebkhat Tah.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived Sunday in Marrakech to take part in the 6th ministerial meeting of the Forum for the Future scheduled 2-3 November 2009.
Mademoiselle Lilo Moroccan Royals Hillary Clinton, Mohammed VI, United States of America
TRH the Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima have concluded their week-long visit to New York City, in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage aboard the Half Moon which discovered the city.
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After their incredibly busy Tuesday and Wednesday schedules, Thursday was a relatively quiet day for the royal couple. The pair had seperate meetings on water management and micro-finance, the Prince and Princess’ pet areas respectively, at the United Nations Headquarters. Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Máxima then visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where they were shown around the Johannes Vermeer exhibition – Vermeer’s Masterpiece The Milkmaid – by the Met’s curator Walter Liedtke.
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has loaned the Met Vermeer’s most famous painting, The Milkmaid, to be apart of the exhibition, while there are also a further five Vermeer pieces on show. Liedtke said that the Prince and Princess showed particular interest in the Vermeer paintings, before they moved on to the New York Stock Exchange, where they were treated to a dinner. At the Stock Exchange, the Prince and Princess were briefed on the economic crisis.
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TRH the Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima have begun their week-long official visit to New York City, in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the founding of New Amsterdam, present-day NYC. Tuesday September 8th was the couple’s first official day in the city (they attended the wedding of Bernardo Guillermo over the weekend), and the first stop was the USS Intrepid, where the Prince and Princess were greeted by Mayor of NYC, Michael Bloomberg, and the US Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Here, speeches were made by the Prince, the Mayor and Mrs Clinton. Prince Willem-Alexander said that, “Arriving in New York is always a great pleasure…because the better you know the Big Apple, the more you love this wonderful city,” before going on to talk about the 1609 voyage of the Half Moon from the Netherlands to New Amsterdam. He also spoke of the values brought to the New World, which are still present in New Yorkers today. “There is no doubt in my mind that New York will emerge from this crisis stronger…New Yorkers are hard-working optimists who have always been able to find new opportunities,” Prince Willem-Alexander said, regarding the current global financial crisis. Following the speeches, Princess Máxima was presented with a glass bowl by Mrs Clinton, and a 21-gun salute took place.
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HH Gen. Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces arrived in Washington DC to hold talks with US President Barak Obama, senior White House advisers, cabinet secretaries, Congressional leaders as well as a few senior US government officials.
Sheikh Mohammed met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and held talks on varioues subjects such as peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, improving stability in the region and the US-UAE Bilateral Agreement for Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation. The Crown Prince also met that day with Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, National Security Advisor Gen. Jim Jones and Members of Congress.
Accompanying Sheikh Mohammed to the meetings is UAE Foreign Minister HH Sheikh Abdulla bin Zayed Al Nahyan and UAE Ambassador to the United States.
dazzling UAE Royals Hillary Clinton, Official Visit, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, United States of America
His Majesty King Hamad held talks yesterday with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at Sharm El- Sheikh’s International Conference Hall in Egypt during the framework of the international Gaza donors’ conference. They reviewed bilateral relations in various fields as well as the latest regional and international developments. Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa said in a statement that “The meeting was fruitful as it provided a platform to discuss the deep historical relations of co-operation between Bahrain and the US”.
Later on, King Hamad met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and discussed bilateral ties, regional and Arab developments. His Majesty also praised Mr Mubarak for his efforts for reconciliation among the Palestinian factions and underlined the need for resumption of the Middle East peace process.
dazzling Bahrain Royals Hillary Clinton, King Hamad
As part of an Asian tour that will also take her to Indonesia, South Korea and China, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is presently visiting Japan. She arrived on Feb. 17, 2009 at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Empress Michiko of Japan was giving a tea party for her and welcomed Ms Clinton with cordiality. The aquaintance of the two ladies dates already back to 1996 when Hillary Clinton was still First Lady of the US.
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The US Secretary of State began her first full day in Asia with a visit to Tokyo’s Meiji shrine, where she took part in a purification ceremony at the Shinto shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji, considered the father of modern Japan. She showed herself impressed by the principles it is based upon: “I started this morning at the Meiji shrine and was talking to the head priest there who told me about the importance of balance and harmony,” she said. “It’s not only a good concept for religious shrines, it’s a good concept for America’s role in the world,” she added, drawing an implicit contrast to the administration of former President George W. Bush. “We need to be looking to create more balance, more harmony.” See more images here.
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