A speech by The Queen at the CHOGM Dinner, Kampala, 2007

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I am so very pleased to be with you again and wish you every success in your deliberations.

President Museveni, Secretary-General, Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am most grateful to you for your kind gifts to us both and for the warm welcome we have received. As Head of the Commonwealth, I am delighted to welcome you all here this evening (for what I hope is a pleasant interruption to your programme). I am so very pleased to be with you again and wish you every success in your deliberations.

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