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Selection of political reports compiled by Irish Embassies abroad which Frank Murray, Secretary to the Government, sent to Peter Ryan, Secretary to the President, for her attention. These include "Danish attitudes to Baltic Security Issues", C Barrington, 30/09/1996; report on 1950th Council Meeting, when Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dick Spring, was President, 01/10/1996; "France and Italy - more discord", T Lyons, Paris, 04/10/1996; "Special Meeting of the European Council, 5 October 1996", Ruairí de Búrca, Institutions Section, Economic Division, 10/10/1996; summary of lunch meeting with Minister of Finance, Erik Asvrink, Ambassador Burke, Embassy of Ireland, Sweden, 09/10/1996; "EMU" [Economic Monetary Unit], Embassy of Ireland, Bonn, Gernmany, 08/10/1996; "Some Finnish Views on EMU", Dáithí O'Ceallaigh, Ambassador, [Finland], 09/10/1996; note on meeting of officials from German Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Oliver Grogan, Economic Division, Department of Foreign Affairs, 12/10/1996; reports of German media coverage on Chancellor Kohl's visit to Ireland, October 1996, on IGC Employment, "Franco-German Paper on Reinforced Cooperation", "The Bundesbank President and EMU", and "The Economic Situation in Germany", Embassy of Ireland, Germany, 11-28/10/1996; "Danish parliamentary scrutiny of EU business and legislation", 16/10/1996; lunch with Foreign Minister Gama, Brian Muldoon, [Embassy of Ireland, Portugal?], 24/10/1996; "Belgian position on the IGC", Brussels, 25/10/1996; and report from Embassy of Ireland, Helsinki, Finland on Finnish information re IGC", 29/10/1996, with cover letter from FM to PR, 14/11/1996..

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Correspondence and other material, 1994-1995, including originals and photocopies of "Mar Eolas" [For Your Information] notes to Ann Lane, from Kay Gleeson, giving details of various new Ambassadors who were coming to the Áras to present their credentials to President Mary Robinson (MR), including: [dates in brackets are dates of presentation] Their Excellencies Riivo Sinjarv, Estonia (20/04/1994), Thomas Klestil, Austria (04/05/1994), John Gregory Collinge, New Zealand (originally 03/06/1994 and postponed until 12/07/1994), Dr Solomon Gidada, Ethiopia (02/06/1994), Zvi Gabay, Israel (22/07/1994), José Olympio Rache de Almeida, Brazil (22/07/1994), Khaled Abdul Aziz Al-Duwaisan, Kuwait (22/09/1994 rescheduled to take place on 09/09/1994), Barry Mawhinney, Canada (04/11/1994), Raimundas Rajeckas, Lithuania (14/12/1994), Her Charan Singh Dhody, India (20/01/1995), Edward John Stevens, Australia (16/01/1995) and Dato Kassim Daud, Brunei Darussalam (25/01/1995); cover letter from Frank Murray (FM), Secretary to the Government to Peter Ryan (PR), Secretary to the President, with memo outlining various Government approvals relating to establishment of non-resident diplomatic relations with Albania, Andorra, Botswana, Cambodia, Namibia, San Marino, States of the former Yugoslavia and Vietnam, nominations for ambassadors to these states, revised arrangements for the accreditation of Irish diplomatic representatives abroad, authorisation for Tánaiste to seek agreements with the Governments concerned and authorising MR as President on receipt of agreements to make necessary appointments and issue letters of credence, 20/07/1994; letter from FM to PR listing approvals from Government regarding various diplomatic appointments, 07/03/1995; background information relating to discussions in Australian Prime Minister Keating's "drive towards an Australian Republic by the end of the year 2001", sent by Ambassador Martin Burke, including photocopies of press articles, and text of Keating's speech in House of Representatives, 07-08/06/1995; faxed letter from Her Majesty Queen Noor Al-Hussein, sent via the Embassy of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, in which she urges MR to act with "compassion and political solidarity" in relation to recent turn of events in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 18/07/1995; two faxes relating to United Nations Women's Conference in Beijing, including list and rank of 14 "specially invited" guests of the Chinese Government, 26-27/07/1995; photocopies of letters sent by Bride Rosney, Special Advisor to the President, on behalf of MR to Ambassador Walter Curley re MR meeting him and his wife at the IIE Award, and possibly receiving Lewis Preston privately in Dublin on a future visit, 28/11/1994, to Ambassador Fermin Zelda, Embassy of Spain, Dublin regarding MR attending meeting of Irish and Spanish poets taking place ahead of official launch of the Institute Cervantes, 22/12/1994, to Ambassador Martin Elasser, Federal Republic of Germany, regarding MR officially opening the symposium on "Women at the Top", being organised by Goethe Institut and Trinity College Dublin, 03/11/1995, and to Ambassador Jan Ostern of Norway in relation to photos sent of opening of "Norwegian Events 1995" exhibition at the RHA Gallery, 08/12/1995; photocopy of letter from MR to Mr Ted Barrington, Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain, thanking him and his wife Claire for hospitality and assistance during MR's visit to London, 30/11/1995.

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Correspondence and other material, 1991-1992, including originals and photocopies of "Mar Eolas" [For Your Information] notes to Ann Lane, from Kay Gleeson, giving details of various new Ambassadors who were coming to the Áras to present their credentials to President Mary Robinson (MR) including: [dates in brackets are dates of presentation] Their Excellencies Mr Nikolai Ivanovich Kozyrev, USSR (23/03/1992), Mr Abdeslam Tadlaoui, Morocco (originally 17/06/1992 and postponed until 14/09/1992), Mr Junus Effendy Habibie, Indonesia (09/06/1993), Mrs Jean Kennedy Smith, United States of America (24/06/1993), Mr Ali M Yassin, Sudan (09/07/1993), Senor Hernán Errázuriz, Chile (29/10/1993), Mr Abdallah Fouad Hafez Hilal, Egypt (11/10/1993), Mr Joseph Kipyegon Ruto, Republic of Kenya (05/11/1993), Arnoldus Antonius Maria Hermans, the Netherlands (25/11/1993), Ms Fan Huijuan, China (17/12/1993), Mr Moshe Raviv, Israel (19/01/1994), Dr Ngoni Togarepi Chideya, Zimbabwe (26/01/1994), Mr Jānis Ūšis, Latvia (01/02/1994), Mr Ali M Jaidah, Qatar (03/02/1994), Mr Mohamed Lessir, Tunisia (03/02/1994) and Alberto Eduardo Ham, Argentina (11/02/1994); cover letters sent by Dermot Nally, Secretary to the Government to PR, with CVs for Ambassador Designates Nikolai Ivanovich Kozyrev (Russia), Tongchan Jotikasthira (Thailand), William Henry Gerald FitzGerald (United States of America), Germán Riesco (Chile), Love Mtsea, Republic of Zambia and Francois Mouton, France (20/01/1992-14/07/1992); correspondence from Mr Rodney HC Walshe, Hon Consul General, Consulate General of Ireland, Auckland, New Zealand listing schedule of rugby games and enclosing biography of Kate Sheppard, ahead of MR's visit in Autumn, 1993, with copy of response from MR, 10-22/12/1992; typed note from Joseph Brennan, [Deputy Secretary to the President], to MR that Spanish Ambassador had suggested Ms Natividad Cordon as a highly qualified and discrete teacher for Spanish lessons, 21/01/1993; photocopy of letter from Ambassador Gearóid Ó Cléirigh on his farewell meeting with King Baudouin King of the Belgians, [on end of Ó Cléirigh's term as Irish Ambassador?], 24/06/1993; material for address by MR to the National Law School of India, Bangalore, on 30 September 1993, which was faxed through from the Embassy of Ireland, New Delhi; draft speech to welcome new Ambassador of Federal Republic of Germany to Ireland.

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Correspondence and other material, 1990-1991, including protocol and photocopy of faxed speaking points for the presentation of credentials of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany, His Excellency Dr Martin Elsässer, on 11th December 1990, 23/11-11/12/1990; photocopies of "Mar Eolas" [For Your Information] notes to Ann Lane, from Kay Gleeson, on behalf of Peter Ryan (PR), Secretary to the President, giving details of various new Ambassadors who were coming to the Áras to present their credentials to President Mary Robinson including: [dates in brackets are dates of presentation] Their Excellencies Dr Istvan Pataki, Hungary (18/02/1991), Mr Mahmoud Hammoud, Lebanon, (12/02/1991), Pengiran Mustapha bin Pengiran Metasan, Brunei (13/03/1991), Mrs N.U.O. Wadibia-Anyeinwn, Nigeria (22/05/1991), Mr Abdelaziz Hamzaoui, Tunisia (28/05/1991), Mr Gventsadze Guerman Georgievich, U.S.S.R. (04/07/1991),Mr Ali Said Mchumo, Tanzania (28/06/1991), Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Ageel Al Dhanan, Oman (03/07/1991), George Gair, New Zealand and Mr Manuel T Yan, Philippines (23/07/1991), Mr Terence Barry McCarthy, Australia (07/08/1991), Mr Christian Ulrik Haxthausen, Denmark (04/09/1991), Chitilenchery Pathivil Ravindranathan, India (11/09/1991), Mr David Elliot Spiby Blatherwick, C.M.G., O.B.E., Great Britain and Ernest Bryll, Poland (12/09/1991), Fermín Zealada Jurado, Spain (20/09/1991), Mr Ivan Stanchev, Bulgaria (24/09/1991), Sergiu Celao, Romania (07/11/1991), Stephen Cletus Chiketa, Zimbabwe (27/11/1991), Juan Manuel Figuerero Antequada, Argentina (05/12/1991), Nikolai Ivanovich Kozyrev, USSR and Carlos Augusto de Proenco Rosa, Brazil (07/01/1992); cover letter from Dermot Nally, Secretary to the Government to PR in relation to Ambassador designate S.K. Dehlavi, Pakistan, which had at one point included Dehlavi's CV, 12/12/1991.

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Correspondence in this subsubseries relates to Irish ambassadors and embassies abroad as well as ambassadors to Ireland, and their embassies during the term of Mary Robinson (MR)'s Presidency of Ireland (1990-1997) and includes correspondence relating to the presentation of credentials by ambassadors to MR at Áras an Uachtaráin, the official residence of the President of Ireland.

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