Word: delhi
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...have met with NATO leaders in Europe, the Commonwealth heads of government in New Delhi, as well as Japanese and Chinese leaders, and most recently with President Reagan in Washington. I shared with them my conviction that we cannot hope to see real progress in the negotiations for arms control and disarmament until there is an injection of high-level political energy into these negotiations and into the East-West relationship itself...
...April when the monarch held talks with Arafat on President Reagan's 1982 peace plan, which called for linking the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip in a loose association with Jordan. In October, when Arafat talked about renewing his discussions with Hussein, the Jordanian ambassadors in New Delhi and Rome were shot, and several car bombs were found in Amman, the Jordanian capital...
...minute Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip stepped out of their British Airways TriStar at New Delhi's Palam airport, they were greeted by marching bands, a 21-gun salute and officers arrayed in spotless finery. As a Mercedes six-door limousine ferried the royal visitors through the chrysanthemum-lined streets, welcoming banners fluttered before them and wizened shopkeepers craned their necks to wave at perhaps the world's richest woman. On the last leg of an 18-day, three-nation swing through Africa and Asia, the Queen made it clear that royalty can still command loyalty...
...Commonwealth, a loose association of 48 former British colonies, she was working quietly "behind the scenes," as one aide put it, to tighten the ties that still bind those nations. She held private talks with each of the 36 heads of government who had assembled in New Delhi for the Commonwealth's seventh biennial meeting...
Midway through the talks, the leaders repaired to the seaside resort of Goa for three days. The respite, and the resolution of the Grenadian issue, may have put the participants in a sunnier mood for their New Delhi discussions this week. An end to the grumpiness seemed quite likely, since the talks were expected to turn to subjects on which the members are mostly in agreement: the independence of Namibia from South Africa (which the Commonwealth supports), and the declaration of an independent state two weeks ago by ethnic Turks in Commonwealth-member Cyprus (which the body deplores...