Calendar of International Events 2005
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December 2005 |
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February 2005 |
Date |
Location |
Event |
03 |
Luxembourg |
EU-Australia Ministerial Meeting |
07 |
Senegal |
Presidential Election |
10 |
Saudi Arabia |
Municipal (Stage One) Election |
11 - 13 |
Munich |
Annual
Munich Security Conference (Münchner Konferenz für Sicherheitspolitik) |
12 - 13 |
Nice, France |
NATO defence ministers meeting |
13 |
Central African Rep. |
Presidential/Parliamentary Election |
20 |
Portugal |
Parliamentary Election |
20 |
Northern Cyprus |
Parliamentary Election |
20 |
Spain |
Referendum on the EU Constitution |
21 |
Brussels |
EU-Ukraine Cooperation Council |
21 |
Brussels |
EU: General Affairs and External Relations Council |
21 - 25 |
Belgium, Germany, Slovakia & Great Britain |
U.S.-President Bush meets with French President Jacques
Chirac (Feb. 21, Brussels), attends NATO summit (Feb. 22, Brussels), meets with German
Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (Feb. 23, Mainz), meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin
(Feb. 24, Bratislava, Slovakia), and meets with British Prime Minister Tony Blair (Feb.
25, London). |
22 |
Brussels |
NATO summit |
27 |
Tajikstan |
Parliamentary Election |
27 |
Kyrgyzstan |
Parliamentary Election |
March 2005 |
Date |
Location |
Event |
01 |
Andorra |
Legistative Election |
02 - 03 |
Cairo, Egypt |
Conference of G-8 and Arab Foreign Ministers |
03 |
Saudi Arabia |
Municipal (Stage Two) Election |
06 |
Moldova |
Parliamentary Election |
08 |
Micronesia |
Parliamentary Election |
11 & 13 |
Lichtenstein |
Parliamentary Election |
13 |
Central African Rep. |
Presidential Election (Second Round) |
14 - 21 |
India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Japan, Korea & China. |
US-Secretary Rice is traveling to India, Pakistan,
Afghanistan, Japan, Korea, and China. |
15 |
Washington, DC |
President Bush welcomes King Abdullah of Jordan |
16 - 18 |
London |
IAEA International
Conference on Nuclear Security |
17 |
Tonga |
Parliamentary Election |
17 |
Washington, DC |
President Bush welcomes Irish Prime Minister |
18 - 19 |
Luxembourg |
Informal Meeting of EU-Defence Ministers |
21 - 22 |
Paris |
IAEA International
Conference on Nuclear Power for the 21st Century |
22 - 23 |
Brussels |
European Council |
24 |
Luxembourg |
EU-Canada Ministerial Meeting |
29 |
Somalialand |
Parliamentary Election |
April 2005 |
Date |
Location |
Event |
- 01 April |
Geneva |
Conference
on Disarmament, first session |
04 |
Washington |
US-President Bush welcomes Ukrainian President Yushchenko
|
11 |
Dominica |
Legistative Election |
11 - 12 |
Oslo, Norway |
Oslo Donors' Conference on Sudan |
15 - 16 |
Luxembourg |
Informal EU-Meeting of Ministers for Foreign Affairs |
17 |
North Cyprus |
Presidential Election |
19 - 21 |
Russia & Lithuania |
US-Secretary Rice Travel to Russia and Lithuania |
20 |
Washington |
EU-US Ministerial Meeting |
20 - 21 |
Vilnius, Lithuania |
NATO foreign ministers informal meeting |
21 |
Saudi Arabia |
Municipal (Stage Three) Election |
22 |
Burundi |
Presidential / Parliamentary Election |
24 |
Andorra |
Parliamentary Election |
25 |
Crawford, Texas |
US-President Bush welcomes Crown Prince Abdullah of the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
25 - 26 |
Luxembourg |
General Affairs and External Relations Council |
26 - 30 |
Brazil, Colombia, Chile & El Salvador |
US-Secretary Rice Travel to Latin America |
28 |
Washington |
US-President Bush welcomes President Torrijos of Panama
|
28 - 30 |
Santiago, Chile |
Third
Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies |
30 |
New Zealand |
Parliamentary Election |
May 2005 |
Date |
Location |
Event |
02 - 27 |
New York |
Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference |
05 |
United Kingdom |
Parliamentary Election |
06 - 07 |
Kyoto (Japan) |
Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) of Foreign Ministers |
06 - 10 |
Latvia, Netherlands, Russia & Georgia |
US-President Bush Travel to Latvia, the Netherlands, Russia
and Georgia |
08 |
France |
Referendum on the EU Constitution |
09 |
Moscow |
Russian American Summit (Bush/Putin) |
10 |
Moscow |
EU-Russia Summit |
10 |
Egypt |
Referendum |
15 |
Ethiopia |
Legislative Election |
17 |
Cayman Islands |
Legislative Election |
20 |
Washington |
US-President Bush welcomes Greek Prime Minister Kostas
Karamanlis |
22 |
Mongolia |
Presidential Election |
23 |
Brussels |
General Affairs and External Relations Council |
25 |
Suriname |
Presidential / Legislative Election |
25 |
Washington |
US-President Bush will welcome President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono of Indonesia |
26 |
Luxembourg |
EU-Mexico Joint Council |
30 - 15 July |
Geneva |
Conference
on Disarmament, second session |
June 2005 |
Date |
Location |
Event |
01 |
Netherlands |
Referendum on the EU Constitution |
01 |
Washington |
US-President Bush will welcome South African President Thabo
Mbeki to the White House |
05 |
(South-) Lebanon |
Parliamentary Election |
06 & 07 |
Hungary |
Presidential Election |
07 |
Washington |
US-President Bush will welcome British Prime Minister Blair
to the White House |
08 |
Washington |
US-President Bush will welcome Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan |
08 - 17 |
Vienna |
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: 2005 Forty-eighth session |
10 |
Washington |
US-President Bush will welcome Republic of Korea President
Roh Moo-hyun |
12 |
Lebanon (Mt. Lebanon & Bekaa) |
Parliamentary Election |
13 - 14 |
Luxembourg |
General Affairs and External Relations Council |
14 |
Luxembourg |
Ministerial Meeting EU-European Economic Area |
16 - 17 |
Brussels |
European Council |
17 |
Iran |
Presidential Election |
17 - 23 |
Middle East & Belgium |
US-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is traveling in the
Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Belgium |
19 |
(North-) Lebanon |
Parliamentary Election |
20 |
Washington |
U.S. - European Union Summit |
20 - 24 |
Vienna |
International
IAEA Symposium on Uranium Production and Raw Materials for the Nuclear Fuel Cycle |
21 |
Washington |
US-President Bush will welcome Prime Minister Phan Van Khai
of Vietnam to the White House |
22 |
Brussels |
International Conference on Iraq |
24 |
Washington |
US-President Bush will welcome Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim
al-Ja'afari to the White House |
25 |
Bulgaria |
Parliamentary Election |
27 |
Washington |
US-President Bush will welcome German Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder to the White House for a meeting and working lunch |
30 |
Uganda |
Referendum |
July 2005 |
Date |
Location |
Event |
01 |
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EU-Presidency
passes to United Kingdom |
03 |
Albania |
Parliamentary Election |
04 |
Burundi (Assembly) |
Legislative Election |
04 - 08 |
Vienna, Austria |
International Atomic Energy Agency: Conference
to amend the Convention on Physical Protection of Nuclear Material |
06 |
Denmark |
US-President Bush will visit Denmark |
06 - 08 |
Perthshire, Scotland |
G-8
Summit |
08 - 13 |
China, Thailand, Japan, South Korea |
US-Secretary Rice travel to China, Thailand, Japan and South
Korea |
09 |
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50th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto |
10 |
Luxembourg |
Referendum on the EU Constitution |
10 |
Kyrgyzstan |
Presidential Election |
12 |
Washington |
US-President Bush welcomes Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of
Singapore |
- 15 July |
Geneva |
Conference
on Disarmament, second session |
17 |
Palestinian Territories |
Parliamentary Election |
18 |
Washington |
President Bush welcomes Prime Minister Singh of India |
18 |
Brussels |
EU: General Affairs and External Relations Council |
18 - 05 Aug |
New York |
UN Disarmament Commission annual meeting |
19 |
Washington |
President Bush welcomes Australian Prime Minister Howard
|
26 - 03 Aug |
Laos, Hong Kong & China |
US-Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick will travel
to Laos, Hong Kong, and China |
29 |
Burundi |
Legislative Election (Senate) |
30 |
Washington |
President Bush welcomes Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz of
Pakistan |
August 2005 |
Date |
Location |
Event |
- 03 Aug |
Laos, Hong Kong & China |
US-Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick will travel
to Laos, Hong Kong, and China |
04 |
Crawford, Texas |
US-President Bush will welcome President Alvaro Uribe of
Colombia |
- 05 Aug |
New York |
UN Disarmament Commission annual meeting |
08 - 23 Sept. |
Geneva |
Conference
on Disarmament, third session |
19 |
Burundi |
Presidential Election |
September 2005 |
Date |
Location |
Event |
01 - 02 |
Newport |
EU: Gymnich (Foreign Affairs Informal) Meeting |
05 |
Beijing |
EU - China Summit |
07 |
Egypt |
Presidential Election (First Round) |
07 |
New Delhi |
EU - India Summit |
07 |
Washington |
US-President Bush will welcome Chinese President Hu Jintao
to the White House |
11 |
Japan |
Parliamentary Election |
12 |
Norway |
Parliamentary Election |
13 |
London |
EU - Australia Summit (Presidency, Council Secretariat,
Commission) |
13 - 14 |
Berlin |
NATO Defence Ministers Informal Meeting |
13 - Dec |
New York |
60th General Assembly of the United Nations |
14 - 16 |
New York |
UN - Summit |
15 - 17 |
New York |
Clinton
Global Initiative Inaugural Meeting |
16 |
Washington |
President Bush will host Russian President Vladimir Putin at
the White House |
17 |
Egypt |
Presidential Election (Second Round) |
17 - 23 |
New York |
EU - meetings planned in the margins of United Nations
General Assembly: EU-US (all ministers); EU-Russia (all ministers); EU-Canada (Presidency,
Council Secretariat, Commission); EU-Palestinian Authority Political Dialogue Meeting
(troika); EU-Bosnia And Herzegovina (troika); EU-Canada (Presidency, Council Secretariat,
Commission); EU-Ukraine (troika) |
18 |
Germany |
Parliamentary Election |
18 |
Afghanistan |
Parliamentary Election |
19 - 23 |
Vienna |
IAEA, Board of Governors |
21 - 23 |
New York |
Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty |
22 |
Washington |
US-President Bush will welcome King Abdullah of Jordan to
the White House |
- 23 Sept. |
Geneva |
Conference
on Disarmament, third session |
26 - 30 |
Vienna, Austria |
IAEA General
Conference |
25 |
Poland |
Parliamentary Election |
27 |
Denmark |
Referendum on the EU Constitution |
29 |
Somaliland |
Parliamentary (House of Representatives) Election |
October 2005 |
Date |
Location |
Event |
03 |
Luxembourg |
EU: General Affairs and External Relations Council |
03 |
Vienna |
IAEA, Board of Governors |
03 |
Washington |
US-President Bush will welcome Hungarian Prime Minister
Ferenc Gyurcsany |
04 |
London |
EU - Russia Summit |
08 |
Khartoum |
EU - Sudan Summit (troika) |
09 |
Poland |
Presidential Election (First Round) |
10 - 13 |
Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan &
Tajikistan |
US-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to
Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan |
10 - 14 |
Geneva |
UN Commission on Human Rights Working Group on the
Use of Mercenaries |
11 |
Liberia |
Presidential / Legislative Election |
12 |
Washington |
President Bush will wellcome Polish President Aleksander
Kwasniewski to the White House |
13 |
Wiltshire, UK |
EU - Defence Ministerial Conference and European Defence
Agency Steering Board Meeting |
15 |
Iraq |
Referendum (Constitution) |
17 |
Washington |
US-President Bush will welcome Bulgarian President Georgi
Purvanov to the White House |
17 - 21 |
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EU - Ukraine Summit (meeting and location tbc) |
17 - 24 |
China, South Korea, Mongolia, Kazakhstan & Lithuania |
US-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld travel to Asia |
20 |
Washington |
US-President Bush will welcome Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas to the White House |
23 |
Poland |
Presidential Election (Second Round) |
23 |
Argentina |
Legislative Election |
24 |
Luxembourg |
EU: General Affairs and External Relations Council |
24 & 25 |
Canada |
US-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to
Ottawa, Canada |
27 |
Washington |
US-President Bush will welcome Macedonian Prime Minister
Vlado Buckovski |
27 - 28 |
Brussels |
European Council (tbc) |
30 |
Cote d'Ivoire |
Presidential Election |
30 |
Tanzania |
Presidential / Legislative Election |
31 |
Washington |
US-President Bush will welcome Italian Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi at the White House |
November 2005 |
Date |
Location |
Event |
03 - 07 |
Argentina, Brazil & Panama |
US-President Bush will travel to Mar del Plata, Argentina
(Nov 3-5), to Brazil (Nov 5-6) and to Panama (Nov 6-7) |
06 |
Azerbaijan |
Parliamentary Election |
07 |
Brussels |
EU: General Affairs and External Relations Council |
07 - 11 |
The Hague |
Organization
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons annual meeting |
08 - 10 |
London |
G-8
Lyon-Roma Anti-Crime and Terrorism Meeting |
09 |
Moscow |
EU-Russia troika (Presidency, Council Secretariat,
Commission) meeting |
10 - 12 |
Stockholm, Schweden |
Ninth meeting of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission |
10 - 13 |
Berlin |
Chinese President Hu Jintao will visit Germany |
10 - 21 |
Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Palestinian Territories,
Republic of Korea, China & Mongolia |
US-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Bahrain, Saudi Arabia,
Israel and the Palestinian Territories before continuing to Busan (Republic of Korea).
Following she will accompany President Bush on his visits to the Peoples Republic of
China and Mongolia. |
11 - 12 |
Manama, Bahrain |
G8 BMENA Forum for the Future |
13 |
Burkina Faso |
Presidential Election |
14 - 18 |
Vienna |
Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive
Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization |
14 - 22 |
The Hague |
Group of governmental experts of the States parties to the
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons
Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects |
15 - 21 |
Japan, Republic of Korea, China and Mongolia |
US-President Bush will visit Kyoto, Japan (Nov 15-16), to
the APEC meetings in the Republic of Korea (Nov 17-18), to Beijing, China (Nov
19-20) and to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (Nov 21) |
16 |
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EU-US troika (Presidency, Council Secretariat, Commission)
meeting (tbc) |
17 - 18 |
Adelaide, Australia |
Australia-U.S. Ministerial meeting with US-Deputy Secretary
Zoellick and US-Secretary Rumsfeld |
21 |
Kenya |
Referendum (Constitution) |
21 - 22 |
Brussels |
EU: General Affairs and External Relations Council |
23 |
Geneva |
7th Annual Conference of the High Contracting
Parties to Amended Protocol II to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the
Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to
Have Indiscriminate Effects |
23 |
Paris & Brussels |
German (new) Chancellor Angela Merkel meets with French
President Jacques Chirac in Paris and visit the EU and the NATO in Brussels |
24 |
London |
German (new) Chancellor Angela Merkel meets with Prime
Minister Tony Blair in London |
24 |
London |
EU - Canada Summit (tbc) |
24 & 25 |
Geneva |
Annual meeting of the States parties to the Convention on
Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be
Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects |
24 & 25 |
Hamburg, Germany |
Proliferation Security Initiative Regional Operational
Experts Group Meeting |
24 & 25 |
Vienna |
IAEA, Board of Governors |
26 |
Zimbabwe |
Parliamentary (Senate) Election |
27 |
Honduras |
Presidential / Legislative Election |
27 |
Gabon |
Presidential Election |
28 & 29 |
New York & Washington |
German (new) Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier meets
Kofi Annan in New York (28 Nov) and US-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington
(29 Nov) |
28 - 03 Dec |
The Hague |
Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the
International Criminal Court |
29 |
London |
EU-New Zealand meeting |
December 2005 |
Date |
Location |
Event |
01 |
Kiev, Ukraine |
EU-Ukraine Summit |
02 |
Warschau |
German (new) Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Warschau |
02 |
Addis Ababa |
EU-African Union (troika) meeting |
02 - 05 |
The Hague |
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons,
Executive Council |
- 03 |
The Hague |
Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the
International Criminal Court |
04 |
Kazakhstan |
Presidential Election |
04 |
Venezuela |
Legislative Election |
05 |
Berlin |
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will welcome Guy
Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium |
05 - 06 |
Ljubljana, Slovenia |
OSCE Ministerial Council 2005 |
05 - 09 |
Germany, Romania, Ukraine & Belgium |
US-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to Germany, Romania,
Ukraine and Belgium |
05 - 09 |
Geneva |
Annual meeting of the States parties to the Convention on
the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological
(Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction |
06 - 09 |
The Hague |
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons,
Executive Council |
07 |
Berlin |
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will welcome Anders Fogh
Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark |
08 |
Berlin |
German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets with French President
Jacques Chirac at Schloss Glienicke in Berlin |
08 |
Washington |
US-President Bush will meet with the Chancellor of the
Republic of Austria, Wolfgang Schuessel, at the White House |
08 - 09 |
Brussels |
NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting |
11 |
Chile |
Presidential / Legislative Election |
12 |
Brussels |
EU: General Affairs and External Relations Council |
12 & 13 |
Madrid |
German Federal President Horst Koehler visit Spain |
13 |
Berlin |
German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets with Prime Minister of
Netherlands Balkenende |
13 - 18 |
Hong Kong |
WTO Ministerial Meeting |
14 |
Tanzania |
Presidential / Legislative Election |
15 |
Iraq |
Parliamentary Elections |
15 - 16 |
Brussels |
European Council |
18 |
Bolivia |
Presidential / Legislative Election |
18 |
Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Referendum (Constitution) |
19 |
Afghanistan |
The new Afghan parliament is set to convene for the first
time |
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