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Article: FINLAND: PRESIDENT HALONEN SPEAKS AT CIVIC RECEPTION HOSTED BY LORD MAYOR, LADY MAYORESS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- November 13, 2007
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The office of the President of Finland issued the following speech:
Speech by the President of the Republic of Finland Tarja Halonen at the Civic Reception hosted by Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress:
I want to thank you for the warm and kind welcome that you and the City of Dublin have given us and for your kind words. It is a great pleasure for me to pay a state visit to your beautiful country and an honour to visit this historical Mansion House.
The City of Dublin was founded by Vikings, and it has been Ireland's principal city since medieval times. Today, Dublin is an internationally important economic and cultural centre, and - as I have been told - has one of the fastest growing ...