DRAFT
THE QUEEN'S SPEECH ON THE PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT
MY LORDS AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
ANNEX A
The Duke of Edinburgh and I were pleased to receive the State Visits of His Majesty the Sultan of Brunei and Her Majesty the Raja Isteri in November 1992, His Excellency the President
of the Portuguese Republic and Senhora Soares in April 1993, [and his Majesty the Agong of Malaysia and Her Majesty the Raja Permaisuri this month/week].
The Duke of Edinburgh and I remember with pleasure our State Visits to Malta in May,
in May, France in June and Germany in October 1992. I was also pleased to visit the European Parliament and the Council of Europe in Strasbourg in May, and we remember with satisfaction our visit to Canada in June 1992. We were pleased to pay a State Visit to Hungary in May of this year; and to be present on the occasion of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Cyprus, and to visit the Republic of Cyprus, in
Cyprus,
October.
My Government have continued to make provision for the defence of the United Kingdom, including a substantial contribu- tion to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation [and to United NEW Nations peacekeeping forces]. They contributed to the successful outcome of the negotiations on the Chemical Weapons Convention. They began implementation of a programme to assist the dismantl- ing of surplus nuclear weapons in the former Soviet Union.
of the Russian
My Government welcomed the Presidents
Federation, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Estonia and Lithuania on
official visits. My Government contributed to international action to assist the countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, in particular their efforts to improve the safety of their civil nuclear plants.
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