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| Toast to President Rahdakrishnan Oct. 12, 1965 |
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Mr. President, it is with great pleasure both for Us personally and for the
entire Ethiopian nation, that We find you here with Us this evening. We,
and all Ethiopians with Us, join in welcoming you to Our country and in
conveying to the Indian people, through you, renewed assurances of the
respect and friendship which join us.
The community of interest which surrounds and permeates relations
between Ethiopia and India is well founded and solidly based. Trade
between our nations flourishes. Indian skills and capital are participating in
the development of Ethiopian industry. Indian merchants have been active
in Ethiopia's foreign and domestic commerce. Indian teachers are taking
part in the vast educational programme which has been a corner-stone of
Our policy for the accelerated development of Our nation. Indian officers
staff Our country's Military Academy at Harar, and others are assigned to
military units elsewhere throughout Ethiopia. Indians of all levels are
active in local philanthropy and community life. All Our relations with the
people of India are not new but of long-standing.
We naturally take satisfaction in the effective co-operation thus achieved
between our peoples. But despite all that has been realized, there is much
more that can be done. There is ample room for extensive expansion of
mutually beneficial and balanced trade between us, as Our economies
continue to develop. It is Our deep desire that direct air links between
Ethiopia and India, as well as with other nations of the Far East, may soon
be established. Programmes of reciprocal technical assistance can bring
us even closer as new areas of joint activity are explored. These and other
steps can only serve to enhance and enrich an already rewarding
partnership, and We look forward to their accomplishment in the months
and years ahead. We have often stated, as Our deepest and most abiding
faith and conviction, the necessity for continued peace if the millions, just
now emerging into the new era of progress and enlightenment which their
struggles have foretold and promised, are to reap the fruits of their
labours. At this crucial moment, when the spark of any local conflict can
be borne on the wind to light a world holocaust capable of destroying the
lives and hopes of millions upon millions of innocent men and women, the
efforts of each one of us must be redoubled to guard against such a
catastrophe.
entire Ethiopian nation, that We find you here with Us this evening. We,
and all Ethiopians with Us, join in welcoming you to Our country and in
conveying to the Indian people, through you, renewed assurances of the
respect and friendship which join us.
The community of interest which surrounds and permeates relations
between Ethiopia and India is well founded and solidly based. Trade
between our nations flourishes. Indian skills and capital are participating in
the development of Ethiopian industry. Indian merchants have been active
in Ethiopia's foreign and domestic commerce. Indian teachers are taking
part in the vast educational programme which has been a corner-stone of
Our policy for the accelerated development of Our nation. Indian officers
staff Our country's Military Academy at Harar, and others are assigned to
military units elsewhere throughout Ethiopia. Indians of all levels are
active in local philanthropy and community life. All Our relations with the
people of India are not new but of long-standing.
We naturally take satisfaction in the effective co-operation thus achieved
between our peoples. But despite all that has been realized, there is much
more that can be done. There is ample room for extensive expansion of
mutually beneficial and balanced trade between us, as Our economies
continue to develop. It is Our deep desire that direct air links between
Ethiopia and India, as well as with other nations of the Far East, may soon
be established. Programmes of reciprocal technical assistance can bring
us even closer as new areas of joint activity are explored. These and other
steps can only serve to enhance and enrich an already rewarding
partnership, and We look forward to their accomplishment in the months
and years ahead. We have often stated, as Our deepest and most abiding
faith and conviction, the necessity for continued peace if the millions, just
now emerging into the new era of progress and enlightenment which their
struggles have foretold and promised, are to reap the fruits of their
labours. At this crucial moment, when the spark of any local conflict can
be borne on the wind to light a world holocaust capable of destroying the
lives and hopes of millions upon millions of innocent men and women, the
efforts of each one of us must be redoubled to guard against such a
catastrophe.
| Haile Selassie the First - October 12, 1965 |
We have been, not unnaturally, saddened in recent weeks as two sister
states, states whose peoples should be striving together to overcome the
difficulties which beset them, have been locked in bloody and deadly
conflict. You know, Mr. President, that Ethiopians and Indians are
dedicated to the same ideals and united in devotion to the same goals. We
have stood together and proclaimed in union our common allegiance to the
principles of Bandung, principles enshrined in the Charter of the United
Nations and the Organiziation of African Unity. It has, therefore come as
a source of much solace and hope to Us that India has heard and heeded
the appeals which the United Nations and world leaders, Ourself among
them, have made that peace be restored. We are gratified that a ceasefire
has been effected on the battlefields on which India and Pakistan have
opposed one another and it is Our hope that the ceasefire would be lasting
and permanent. We are confident that, in the same spirit in which strife
and bloodshed have been halted, an acceptable and honourable solution can
be found to the problems facing India and her neighbour.
During the few days you will spend with Us, Mr. President, We trust that
you will come to appreciate the special qualities of Our land and its people.
The bonds which link us are already close, but it remains nonetheless
important that we both know at first hand something of the problems and
experiences which we share. In this manner, We shall strengthen and
solidify the unity of interest which is essential to the creation of an ever
broader base for our united action. Ethiopia and India have much to
accomplish together, and We are confident that your visit will open up
new ways for us to travel forward in harmony.
We must not let this occasion pass without recalling the memories of
those days when We visited the great Republic of India; of the tumultuous
welcome which greeted Us there, and the lavish and outstanding
generosity with which Our initial reception was hour by hour sustained
and supplemented. We hope that these short days you are sharing with
Us, Mr. President, although they might not be as wonderful a reception as
it was when We visited India, will serve in some small measure to
reciprocate for what We experienced then.
May We now propose this toast to the furtherance and growth of the
existing warm friendship between the Indian and Ethiopian peoples; to the
universal acceptance and enrichment of the principles of reason and
conscience which upon Your Excellency the degree of Doctor of Letters,
to the long life and good health of Our honoured guest, President
Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan.
states, states whose peoples should be striving together to overcome the
difficulties which beset them, have been locked in bloody and deadly
conflict. You know, Mr. President, that Ethiopians and Indians are
dedicated to the same ideals and united in devotion to the same goals. We
have stood together and proclaimed in union our common allegiance to the
principles of Bandung, principles enshrined in the Charter of the United
Nations and the Organiziation of African Unity. It has, therefore come as
a source of much solace and hope to Us that India has heard and heeded
the appeals which the United Nations and world leaders, Ourself among
them, have made that peace be restored. We are gratified that a ceasefire
has been effected on the battlefields on which India and Pakistan have
opposed one another and it is Our hope that the ceasefire would be lasting
and permanent. We are confident that, in the same spirit in which strife
and bloodshed have been halted, an acceptable and honourable solution can
be found to the problems facing India and her neighbour.
During the few days you will spend with Us, Mr. President, We trust that
you will come to appreciate the special qualities of Our land and its people.
The bonds which link us are already close, but it remains nonetheless
important that we both know at first hand something of the problems and
experiences which we share. In this manner, We shall strengthen and
solidify the unity of interest which is essential to the creation of an ever
broader base for our united action. Ethiopia and India have much to
accomplish together, and We are confident that your visit will open up
new ways for us to travel forward in harmony.
We must not let this occasion pass without recalling the memories of
those days when We visited the great Republic of India; of the tumultuous
welcome which greeted Us there, and the lavish and outstanding
generosity with which Our initial reception was hour by hour sustained
and supplemented. We hope that these short days you are sharing with
Us, Mr. President, although they might not be as wonderful a reception as
it was when We visited India, will serve in some small measure to
reciprocate for what We experienced then.
May We now propose this toast to the furtherance and growth of the
existing warm friendship between the Indian and Ethiopian peoples; to the
universal acceptance and enrichment of the principles of reason and
conscience which upon Your Excellency the degree of Doctor of Letters,
to the long life and good health of Our honoured guest, President
Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan.
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