Speech at a Reception hosted by Ambassador Aidan O’Hara
Radisson Blu Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 5th November 2014
A chairde na hÉireann agus na hAetóipe,
Dear Friends of Ireland and Ethiopia,
May I thank you, Ambassador O’Hara, Mrs. Clévy O’Hara, and all of you here this evening for the warm welcome you have accorded to me, to my wife Sabina, to Minister Seán Sherlock T.D., and to the entire Irish delegation.
It gives me great pleasure to be here today, as Ireland and the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia celebrate 20 years of very harmonious diplomatic relations. While emphasising the…