Calendar of International Events 2005


last modified: 21 December 2005

 

January 2005
Date Location Event
01   EU-Presidency passes to Luxembourg
02 Croatia Presidential (First Round) Election
16 Croatia Presidential (Second Round) Election
18 - 19 Brussels German President Koehler visit the EU and the NATO in Brussels 
20 Washington U.S. Presidential Inauguration
24 - 01 April Geneva Conference on Disarmament, first session
26 - 30 Davos World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
  30 Iraq Parliamentary Election
  30 Central African Rep. Parliamentary/Presidential Election
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   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   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   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 People’s 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 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