Agenda

Brussels

13:00
Lunch with the Political and Security Committee (PSC)

Visit to Dublin

09:30
Meeting with Mr Bertie Ahern, Prime Minister (Taoiseach)

10:00
Address to the National Forum of Europe on European Security Strategy (Dublin Castle)

12:00
Meeting with Mr Brian Cowen, Minister of Foreign Affairs, followed by working lunch

14:30
Press point
 

Brussels

09:30
Meeting with Mr Simon Samuels, President of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and with Associate Dean, Mr Rabi Abraham Cooper

20:00
Working dinner with Mr Nabil Shaath, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian Authority

Visit to Vienna

13:30
Meeting with with Mr Mohamed El Baradei, Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 

Visit to Teheran

09:00
Meeting with Mr Kamal Kharrazi, Minister of Foreign Affairs followed by Press Conference

11:15
Meeting with President Mohamed Khatami

12:00
Meeting with Mr Hassan Rohani, Secretary of the National Security Council

13:30
Working lunch with Mr Kamal Kharrazi, Minister of Foreign Affairs

15:00
Meeting with Mr Karoubi, President of the Parliament

16:00
Meeting with Mr Mirdamdi, President of the Foreign Affairs Committee

20:00
Working dinner with representatives of the NGO's and the civil society

Visit to Bam 

19:00
Meeting with EU Ambassadors

Visit to Kabul

09:30
Meeting with Mr Abdullah Abdullah, Minister of Foreign Affairs

11:00
Meeting with General Götz GLIEMEROTH, Commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (ISAF)

13:00
Working lunch with President Hamid Karzai

15:00
Meeting with Mr Marshall Fahim, Minister of Defence

16:00
Press Conference

16:30
Meeting with EU Ambassadors

Trip to Tbilisi

21:00
Working dinner with Mr Mikheil SAAKASHVILI, President-elect and with Mr Zurab ZHVANIA, State Minister

Visit to Tbilisi, Georgia

10:00
Meeting with Mr Zurab Zhvania, State Minister

11:00
Meeting with Mr Mikheil Saakashvili, President-elect

12:00
Meeting with Acting President Burjanadze

13:00
Press Conference

Brussels

13:00
Working lunch with PSC Ambassadors

Brussels

12:00
Address to the Mission d'Étude en Europe by the Institut des Hautes Études de Défense Nationale (IHEDN)

12:15
Meeting with Mr Luis Ernesto Derbez, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico

13:00
Working lunch with Members of the EP

16:00
Meeting with Mr Ruud Lubbers, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

17:00
Meeting with Mr Fatos Nano, Albanian PM

Brussels

11:00
New Year's reception by His/Her Majesty the King and the Queen of Belgium (Palais Royal)

14:30
Meeting with Mr Guy Tessier, Chairman of the French Assembly’s Defense Committee

16:00
NAC/PSC meeting (NATO Headquarters)

17:30
Joint Press Conference with Mr Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, the NATO Secretary-General and with Ambassador Declan Kelleher, the PSC Chairman

Brussels

13:00
Working lunch with COREPER Ambassadors

Brussels

10:30
Meeting with Mr Miomir Zuzul, Croatian Minister of Foreign Affairs

Visit to Davos

World Economic Forum (WEF)

12:30
Lunch discussion panel "New challenges to collective security"

15:00
Discussion panel "The future of Transatlantic relations"

Visit to Davos
World Economic Forum

09:00
Discussion panel "The vicious circle of the Arab-Israeli conflict"

Brussels

General Affairs and External relations Council

Brussels

10:30
Meeting with representatives of the Centro Alti Studi per la Difesa (CASD)

11:30
Meeting with Mr Saadiq Safaev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan

Trip to Sweeden 

11:00
Meeting with Prime Minister Göran Persson

12:30
Address to the International Forum on Genocide

Brussels

17:30
Meeting with Mr Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General

Brussels

11:00
Ceremony of of the Sakharov Price to Mr Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations 

13:15
Working lunch in honour of Mr Kofi Annan UNSG

Barcelona

Address to the Tribuna Barcelona

Visit to Barcelona

10:00
War and Peace Seminar (CIDOB)