Mr President, Heartily welcome to our country. The fact, that you are visiting our country is an honour for all of us who reside here. We believe this is a very large gesture on your behalf to have accepted [...] expectations from your visit on all accounts. Our country is small, if we judge this geographically, but if we include our territorial waters, our country becomes quite large. The ocean is decisive for our [...] hemisphere, and plays an all important role for the world’s climate and the climatic changes, which now seem to be emerging. Even if our country is small, the nation which resides here is strong. We have
change his home country and the world. This guy, who was inspired by Kennedy, pulled all the world’s strings 8 years running. He cleaned up Reagan’s economic mess, redefined America’s role, after the red [...] challenge and we should seize this opportunity, now that the whole world’s projectors will be focusing on this little mountainous country, which is barely even visible on the globe and completely unknown to [...] to be relaxing in Kennedy’s rocking chair in about a year. This time, though, as the spouse of the political frontrunner Hillary Clinton, who will probably become the republic’s first ever female president
ordinary citizens. We are a country at a crossroads. Our wealth has flowed from the bounty of the sea for centuries. Ever since our first fishing schooners took to the seas in the 1870s, we have provided the [...] such distinguished visitors is but another evidence of this remarkable and heartening trend. Our country has launched upon an ambitious program, which has come to be known as Vision 2015. The goal is to [...] opportunity to share our beautiful land and our culture with two such remarkable men. We are a small country by international standards, only some 540 square miles, but we do have more mobile telephones per
whose bicentenary many of us look forward to celebrate in January 2009 contributed, together with T.S. Eliot, to the creation of European lyrical modernism, a literary movement which is still with us. We [...] remember the sixtees, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia and Kris Kristofferson (who, by the way, visited our country a few months ago) are soul-brothers. And, to turn to the cinema, who can ever forget the yearning [...] instead of ruining it, had chosen to support and defend this beacon of democracy in a Shia Muslim country in the Middle East? So, in addition to honesty, humility and the revival of the principles of true
States of America, accompanied by one of the most important UN officials in history. Though our country may be small and our number of inhabitants low, Tórshavn is a modern city offering all the facilities [...] Faroese Parliament and it still meets in Tórshavn. I am proud to say that it is considered the world’s oldest parliament. Tórshavn is administered by a politically elected city council. This council, like [...] r by Kollafjørður in the North, and right across the same fjord the longest landing quay in the country was recently finished. We have several industrial areas in the municipality and more are underway
Bill Clinton writes in his memoir that despite having been the President of the world’s most powerful country for 8 years he nevertheless always felt like a servant. The Presidency was merely a loan and [...] are reestablished. ??Mr. President! ??On behalf of Føroya Banki, one of the leading banks in the country, I wish to welcome you to the Faroe Islands. Your visit transcends mental barriers. It shows the
himself as a President who among other aspects tried to balance the country’s economy. He also endeavoured to improve and develop the nation’s educational system and address the national social imbalance. [...] media, and no doubt many will find it quite hard to believe we are actually having this visit in our country. I cannot refrain from thinking back to October in 1986, when the then United States President, Mr [...] world. We of course aspire to the same ambition, which is that when two such dignitaries visit our country this will assist in the promotion of the Faroes on to the world map, There are several indicators
Islands were a totally unknown entity in the United States, but now that he returned to this tiny country, the situation had changed. The last couple of months he had noticed that the islands were on the [...] Creating interest Tórun Ellingsgaard was hired as a press coordinator in connection with Bill Clinton’s visit already in January. The visit was postponed just weeks before the planned event in May, but eight [...] According to the press co-ordinator, Tórun Ellingsgaard, foreign press doesn’t just follow Bill Clinton’s tail. They have to be fed with interesting tips about possible stories. - American journalists are not
Danish Embassy in Pretoria on the occasion of Nelson Mandela’s 85th Birthday in 2003. Sosialurin is taking the opportunity of Bill Clinton’s visit to the Faroe Islands to ask him to be the courier for the [...] our strong belief that it would be an ideal location for you to conduct your deliberations. Our country offers a secluded stress-free environment enhanced by a closeness to nature. All this lends itself
young unemployed journalists traveling in Europe for a month with only the increasingly devalued U.S. dollar to spend. On the island of Samos, within sight of the Turkish coast, we stayed with a lovely [...] circumstances Ben only has to explain where the Faroes are located; I have to try and explain my country’s entire foreign policy. Clinton in Kosovo Anxious for the next leg of the trip, we happily set out [...] people in the world who are able to reconcile Cinton, Bush and Iraq, and still come out loving the U.S. It is Clinton, though, who holds the key to their hearts for his support during the Kosovo War in 1999