Example sentences of "the first visit by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first visit by prospective parents is important as it creates a lasting impression . |
| 2 | In foreign affairs East-West détente had revived after the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia and in September 1987 Erich Honecker made the first visit by an East German head of state to West Germany . |
| 3 | The fourth and final summit between the two leaders took place in Moscow in May-June 1988 ; it was the first visit by a US president to the Soviet capital for fourteen years . |
| 4 | The King 's invitation to visit India had been issued by the Indian President , Ramaswamy Venkataraman , during the latter 's four-day visit to Bhutan on Oct. 18-21 , 1988 , the first visit by an Indian President since 1974 . |
| 5 | In what was reported to be the first visit by an Irish Prime Minister to Northern Ireland for 25 years , Charles Haughey , the Taoiseach , visited Belfast on April 11 . |
| 6 | John Paul II visited Malta on May 25-27 , 1990 , in the first visit by a Pope to the island . |
| 7 | It was the first visit by a Turkish head of government since 1959 and talks centred around the purchase by Turkey of transport aircraft and weaponry , economic relations between the two countries and Turkey 's application for EC membership . |
| 8 | On Oct. 23-24 he visited the Netherlands , the EC 's strongest opponent of apartheid ; this was the first visit by a South African head of state to the Netherlands since 1948 . |
| 9 | De Klerk visited the United States in September , the first visit by a South African leader for 44 years . |
| 10 | It was the first visit by a Japanese minister to Vietnam since Vietnamese unification in 1976 . |
| 11 | This was the first visit by a Romanian head of state to Israel . |
| 12 | April : April 1 : Bessmertnykh discussed in Beijing measures to resolve Soviet-Chinese border disputes , and the reduction of troops on both sides of the border ; April 4 : Polish Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki held talks with Gorbachev in Moscow on the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Poland , the internal situation in both countries , and prospects for co-operation ; April 4 : Romanian President Iliescu arrived in Moscow to sign the Soviet-Romanian Treaty ; April 8-9 : Bessmertnykh , visiting Belgrade , supported the preservation of Yugoslavia 's territorial integrity ; April 8 : Viktor Komplektov named as new Soviet ambassador to the USA ; April 9-10 : Bessmertnykh had talks in Athens with Greek President Karamanlis and Foreign Minister Antonis Samaras and signed a treaty of friendship and co-operation ; April 16-19 : President Gorbachev visited Japan , the first visit by a Soviet leader , and had a number of ( inconclusive ) discussions with Japanese officials about the fate of the disputed Kurile Islands — the main obstacle to a significant increase in the amount of Japanese aid and credits to the USSR ; April 17 : as part of a $3,000 million aid package agreed earlier in the year , the South Korean Export-Import bank signed an agreement giving the Soviet Union $800 million worth of credits to purchase South Korean raw materials and consumer goods . |
| 13 | The first visit by a French foreign minister since independence in 1954 took place with the arrival of Roland Dumas on Nov. 26 . |
| 14 | Li Peng visited the Soviet Union in April 1990 , the first visit by a Chinese Premier for 26 years , saying that his visit aimed to give " new impetus " to Sino-Soviet relations ; seven agreements were signed during the visit . |
| 15 | Jiang Zemin visited the Soviet Union in May 1991 for talks with his Soviet counterpart , President Gorbachev ( who had visited China in May 1989 — see pp. 36641-42 ) , the first visit by a Chinese party leader to Moscow since Mao Zedong 's 1957 trip . |
| 16 | It was the first visit by a Chinese head of state to Malaysia and followed a visit by Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah , the Yang di-Pertuan Agong ( paramount ruler ) of Malaysia , to China in September 1991 [ see p. 38441 ] . |
| 17 | The first visit by a senior Chinese official in over 13 years , and designed to signal China 's support for the Cambodian peace process , it had been postponed twice in December due to unrest in Phnom Penh [ see p. 38680 ] . |
| 18 | Following South Korea 's establishment of diplomatic relations with China in August [ see p. 39050 ] , President Roh made the first visit by a South Korean head of state to China on Sept. 27-30 . |
| 19 | It was the first visit by a Mongolian minister to the Russian Federation . |
| 20 | King Fahd of Saudi Arabia visited Baghdad at the end of March for the first visit by a Saudi monarch since Iraq 's Baathist revolution of 1968 . |
| 21 | This was the first visit by the Prince of Wales as guest of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies . |
| 22 | Earlier yesterday , in the first visit by a US secretary of state to Beirut in ten years , he had 75 minutes of talks with Lebanon 's president , Elias Hrawi , prime minister , Rafik al-Hariri , and foreign minister , Fares Bouez . |