20 years since Boris Yeltsin kept the Taoiseach waiting

Richard Fitzpatrick looks back at the day the Russian premier couldn’t be roused from his plane to meet the Taoiseach

20 years since Boris Yeltsin kept the Taoiseach waiting

THE Russian President Boris Yeltsin was flying from New York to Moscow on Friday, September 30, 1994, when an official stopover at Shannon Airport was built into his schedule. Irish and Russian government officials used the opportunity to stage a meeting between Yeltsin and the Taoiseach of the day, the late Albert Reynolds. Yeltsin’s flight was due to land around noon. Reynolds came directly to the Co Clare airport from Australia for the meeting.

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