Calendar of International Events 2006


last modified: 08 December 2006

 

January 2006
Date Location Event
01   EU-Presidency passes to Austria
12 - 13 Washington US-President Bush will welcome German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the White House 
15 Finland Presidential Election (First Round) 
15 Chile Presidential Election (Second Round) 
17 Vienna IAEA, Board of Governors, Programme and Budget Committee
17 Washington US-President Bush will welcome Belgian Prime Minister Verhofstadt to the White House 
17 - 19 Stockholm, Schweden Ninth meeting of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission
19 Washington U.S.- Republic of Korea Strategic Consultations For Allied Partnership 
22 Portugal Presidential Election
22 Cape Verde Legislative Election
23 Canada Parliamentary Election 
23 - 31 March Geneva Conference on Disarmament, first session of 2006
24 Washington Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz meets with US-President Bush 
25 Palestinian Territories Parliamentary Election
29 Finland Presidential Election (Second Round)
30 & 31 Brussels EU: General Affairs and External Relations Council 
30 & 31 London Conference on Afghanistan 
February 2006
Date Location Event
02 Vienna Extraordinary Meeting of the IAEA Board of Governers 
03 - 05 Munich Annual Munich Security Conference (Münchner Konferenz für Sicherheitspolitik) 
05 Costa Rica Presidential / Legislative Election
07 Haiti Presidential (first round) / Legislative Election   
08 Washington US-President Bush will welcome His Majesty King Abdullah of Jordan 
08 - 13 Italy, Tunisia, Algeria & Morocco US-Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld Travel to Italy, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco 
09 Washington Polish President Lech Kaczynski meets with US-President Bush  
09 & 10 Taormina, Italy NATO Informal Meeting of Defense Ministers 
12 Cape Verde Presidential Election 
13 Washington US-President Bush will meet with United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the White House 
13 - 03 March Vienna Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO): Working Group B and informal/expert meetings 
15 Berlin Kostas Karamanlis, Prime Minister of Greece, meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel 
17 Berlin German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets with Prime Minister Tony Blair
17 - 22 Qatar, the United Arab Emirates & Germany US-Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen Hughes will travel to Doha, Dubai and Berlin 
19 - 21 India French President Chirac travels to New Delhi to sign a French-India nuclear cooperation pact 
20 - 24 Egypt, Saudi Arabia & the United Arab Emirates US-Secretary Rice to Travel to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates 
23 Uganda Presidential / Parliamentary Election 
23 & 24 Vienna, Austria OSCE Parliamentary Assembly 
24 Washington US-President Bush will welcome President Saca of El Salvador  
27 Brussels EU - Serbia and Montenegro Meeting (Troika) 
27 & 28 Brussels EU: General Affairs and External Relations Council   
28 Washington US-President Bush will welcome Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at the White House 
March 2006
Date Location Event
01 - 03 India & Pakistan US-President Bush visits India and Pakistan 
- 03 Vienna Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO): Working Group B and informal/expert meetings 
03 Kiev EU - Ukraina Meeting (Troika) 
05 Benin Presidential Election 
06 Vienna IAEA, Board of Governors meeting 
06 & 07 Innsbruck EU: Informal Meeting of Defence Ministers   
06 - 10 Geneva UN: Thirteenth group of governmental experts of the States parties to, and first Preparatory Committee for, 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 
08 Vienna EU - Turkey Meeting (Troika) 
09 Portugal Presidential Inauguration of Anibal Cavaco Silva in the Republic of Portugal 
10 & 11 Salzburg Informal Meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers ("Gymnich" Meeting) 
10 - 18 Chile, Peru, Indonesia & Australia US-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to Chile, Peru, Indonesia and Australia. In addition to bilateral meetings at all stops, Secretary Rice will attend the inauguration of President Michelle Bachelet in Chile and hold the first ministerial-level Trilateral Security Dialogue with Australia and Japan in Sydney  
12 El Salvador Parliamentary Election 
12 Columbia Legislative Election 
13 Washington US-President Bush will welcome Slovak Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda at the White House 
17 Washington US-President Bush will wellcome Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern on St. Patrick's Day 
19 Belarus Presidential Election   
20 & 21 Brussels EU: General Affairs and External Relations Council   
21 Washington US-President Bush will welcome President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of the Republic of Liberia 
21 Vienna EU - Albania Meeting (Troika) 
23 & 24 Brussels European Council 
26 Ukraine Parliamentary Election 
26 - 28 Washington DC Days 2006, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
27 Vienna EU - Indonesia Meeting (Troika) 
28 Israel Parliamentary Election 
28 Berlin Aigars Kalvitis, Prime Minister of Latvia, meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel 
28 - 30 Berlin Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of Italia, meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel 
29 Washington US-President Bush will welcome President Olusegun Obasanjo of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 
29 - 02 April Germany, France & United Kingdom US-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to Germany, France and the United Kingdom 
30 Berlin P5 (+Germany) Meeting on Iran 
30 & 31 Cancun, Mexico Trilateral Meeting on the Security and Prosperity Partnership (Meeting with President Vicente Fox of Mexico, US-President Bush and Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada)  
- 31 March Geneva Conference on Disarmament, first session of 2006
31 Washington Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the US Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
31 Samao Parliamentary Election 
April 2006
Date Location Event
02 Thailand Parliamentary Election 
09 Italy Parliamentary Election 
09 Hungary Parliamentary Election (First Round) 
09 Peru Presidential / Legislative Election
10 & 11 Luxembourg EU: General Affairs and External Relations Council   
10 - 28 New York UN-Disarmament Commission 
12 Washington US-President Bush will welcome President John Kufuor of the Republic of Ghana 
18 Washington US-President Bush welcomes Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora 
20 Washington US-President Bush will welcome Chinese President Hu Jintao to the White House 
21 Haiti Legislative Election 
23 Hungary Parliamentary Election (Second Round) 
24 - 28 Turkey, Greece & Bulgaria US-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria 
26 - 28 Geneva UN: Preparatory Committee for the Sixth Review Conference 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 
27 & 28 Sofia, Bulgaria NATO Informal meeting of Foreign Ministers (IFM 2006) 
28   The U.S. State Department will release its annual terrorism report
28 Washington US-President Bush will welcome President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan 
28 New York International Atomic Energy Agency reports to the United Nations Security Council on Iran's nuclear program 
30 Laos Parliamentary Election  
May 2006
Date Location Event
02 Paris Five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council (Britain, China, France, Russia, and U.S.) and Germany meet to discuss Iran's nuclear program 
02 - 06 Vienna IAEA, Board of Governors, Programme and Budget Committee
03 Washington US-President Bush will welcome German Chancellor Angela Merkel   
03 Chad Presidential Election 
04 Washington US-President Bush will welcome Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez 
11 Vienna EU-LAC, Foreign Ministers Meeting 
11 & 12 Vienna Fourth EU-LAC Summit 
12 U.S. & Canadian U.S.-Canadian agreement on NORAD expires
13 Azerbaijan Parliamentary Election  
13 Fiji Parliamentary Election  
14 Comoros Presidential Election 
15 & 16 Brussels EU: General Affairs and External Relations Council   
15 - 26 Vienna Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO): Working Group B and informal/expert meetings 
15 - 30 June Geneva Conference on Disarmament, second session of 2006 
16 Dominican Republic Parliamentary Election  
16 - 19 The Hague Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW): 45th session of the Executive Council 
21 Cyprus Parliamentary Election  
21 Montenegro (part of Serbia and Montenegro) Referendum 
21 Lichtenstein Referendum 
21 China German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit China 
23 Washington US-President Bush will welcome Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel 
26 - 30 Paris NATO Parlimentary Assembly 
28 Columbia Presidential (First Round) Election 
29 - 02 June Vienna Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO): Working Group A and informal/expert meetings 
29 - 02 June Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Nuclear Suppliers Group meeting 
June 2006
Date Location Event
02 & 03 Czech Republic Parliamentary Election  
04 Peru Presidential (Second Round) Election 
08 Washington US-President Bush will welcome President Michelle Bachelet of Chile to the White House 
09 Camp David, Maryland US-President Bush will host Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen at Camp David 
12 - 16 Vienna IAEA Board of Governers Meeting 
12 & 13 Luxembourg EU: General Affairs and External Relations Council   
15 & 16 Brussels European Council 
17 Slovakia Parliamentary Election  
18 Columbia Presidential (Second Round) Election 
19 - 23 Vienna Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO): 26th session of the Preparatory Commission 
21 - 22 Vienna / Budapest President Bush will travel to Vienna, Austria to participate in the annual U.S.-EU Summit. President Bush visit to Budapest at 22 June.
23 Warsaw, Poland Proliferation Security Initiative high-level political meeting 
23 - 28 Vancouver, Canada World Peace Forum 2006 
24 Mauritania Referendum 
26 & 27 Luxembourg EU: General Affairs and External Relations Council   
27 - 30 North Korea Former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung visits North Korea 
29 Moscow G8 Foreign Ministers Meeting 
29 Washington US-President Bush and Mrs. Bush will welcome Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan to the White House 
- 30 June Geneva Conference on Disarmament, second session of 2006 
July 2006
Date Location Event
01   EU-Presidency passes to Finland
02 Mexico Presidential / Legislative Election
02 Bolivia Referendum 
03 - 07 Brussels 15th OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session 
05 Macedonia Parliamentary Election  
05 Washington US-President Bush will welcome Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili for a meeting at the White House 
06 Washington US-President Bush will welcome Prime Minister Harper of Canada to the White House 
10 Washington US-President Bush will host Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa at the White House 
12 - 14 Stralsund & Trinwillershagen, Germany German Chancellor Angela Merkel will welcome US-President Bush in Stralsund 
15 - 17 St. Petersburg, Russia G8 Summit 
17 - 18 Helsinki EU: Meeting of EU Defence Policy Directors 
17 - 18 Brussels EU: General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC)  
23 - 29 Israel, the Palestinian territories, Italy and Malaysia US-Secretary Rice Travel to the Middle East, Europe, and Asia
25 Washington US-President Bush will meet with Minni Minawi, Sudan Liberation Movement/Army Leader, at the White House
25 Washington US-President Bush will host Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki at the White House
26 Palestinian Territories Referendum 
27 Washington US-President Bush will host Romanian President Traian Basescu at the White House  
28 Seychelles Presidential Election 
28 Washington US-President Bush will welcome British Prime Minister Tony Blair to the White House 
30 Sao Tome and Principe Presidential Election 
30 Democratic Republic of the Congo Parliamentary / Presidential (First Round) Election 
31 - 15 Sept. Geneva Conference on Disarmament, third and final session of 2006
August 2006
Date Location Event
03 Tuvalu Parliamentary Election  
31 Stockholm International Donors Conference for Lebanon 
     
     
September 2006
Date Location Event
01 - 02 Lappeenranta, Finland EU: Informal ministerial meeting: Foreign Affairs (Gymnich)   
10 Montenegro Parliamentary Election 
10 - 11 Helsinki EU: ASEM 6 Summit (Asia-Europe Meeting) 
11 Vienna IAEA - General Conference, Board of Governors 
14 Washington US-President Bush will welcome President Roh Moo-hyun of the Republic of Korea to the White House 
14 - 15 Brussels EU: General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC)  
- 15 Sept. Geneva Conference on Disarmament, third and final session of 2006
17 Sweden Parliamentary Election 
19 - 20 Vienna 50th IAEA General Conference Special Event 
19 & 20 Singapore Annual Meeting of the World Bank & IMF
20 Yemen Presidential  Election 
22 The Gambia Presidential  Election 
25 Vienna IAEA - General Conference, Board of Governors 
26 & 27 Washington US-President Bush will welcome President Hamid Karzai of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the White House 
27 Washington US-President Bush will welcome President Pervez Musharraf of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to the White House 
28 Zambia Presidential / Legislative Election 
28 - 30 Portoro, Slovenia Informal Meeting of NATO Defense Ministers 
29 Washington US-President Bush will welcome President Nursultan Nazarbayev of the Republic of Kazakhstan 
October 2006
Date Location Event
01 Brazil Legislative / Presidential (First Round) Election 
01 Bosnia and Herzegovina Parliamentary / Presidential (First Round) Election 
01 Austria Parliamentary Election 
01 - 05 Managua, Nicaragua VII Conference of the Defense Ministers of the Americas  
01 - 05 Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel & Palestinian Territories US-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian Territories 
02 Washington US-President Bush will welcome Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the White House 
02 - 03 Kittilä, Finland EU: Informal ministerial meeting: Defence 
02 - 06 Vienna Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, Working Group A and informal/expert meeting 
07 Latvia Parliamentary Election 
10 Washington US-President Bush will welcome President Alan Garcia of Peru to the White House 
15 Ecuador Presidential & Legislative Election (First Round) 
16 - 17 Brussels EU: General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC)  
17 Washington US-President Bush will welcome Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader to the White House 
17 - 22 Japan, South Korea, China and Russia US-Secretary Rice will travel to Tokyo, Japan, Seoul, South Korea, Beijing, China and Moscow, Russia 
19 Berlin German Chancellor Angela Merkel will welcome President Michelle Bachelet of Chile 
20 Lahti, Finland EU: Informal meeting of Heads of State or Government 
22 Bulgaria Presidential Election 
22 Panama Referendum 
23 Washington The US-President and Mrs. Bush will welcome Their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden to the White House 
25 Washington US-President Bush will welcome President Leonel Fernandez of the Dominican Republic to the White House 
27 Washington US-President Bush will host NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at the White House 
29 Democratic Republic of the Congo Presidential (Second Round) Election  
29 Brazil Presidential (Second Round) Election 
31 Cote d'Ivoire Parliamentary / Presidential Election 
November 2006
Date Location Event
05 Nicaragua Parliamentary / Presidential (First Round) Election 
06 Tajikistan Presidential (First Round) Election 
07 United States Legislative Election 
09 Washington US-President Bush will welcome President-elect Felipe Calderon of Mexico to the White House 
12 - 19 Ha Noi / Vietnam APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting Week 
13 - 14 Brussels EU: General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC)  
13 - 17 Quebec  (Canada) NATO Parlimentary Assembly 
17 - 19 Vietnam, Singapore & Indonesia US-President Bush will travel to Hanoi, Vietnam to attend the 14th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders' Meeting. The President also will travel to Singapore and Indonesia during his trip. 
19 Mauritania Legislative Election 
19 - 20 Helsinki EU: Seminar on the European Security and Defence Policy
22 Netherlands Parliamentary Election 
23 Vienna IAEA - General Conference, Board of Governors 
23 - 26 Islamabad, Pakistan Chinese president Hu Jintao meets with Pakistani president Gen. Pervez Musharraf 
25 Bahrain Parliamentary Election 
26 Ecuador Presidential Election (Second Round) 
28 - 29 Riga, Latvia NATO summit 
28 - 01 Dec Turkey Pope Benedict XVI travels to Turkey 
29 & 30 Amman, Jordan US-President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki will meet in Amman, Jordan 
December 2006
Date Location Event
03 Venezuela Presidential (First Round) Election 
03 Madagascar Parliamentary / Presidential (First Round) Election 
04 - 05 Brussels The 14th Ministerial Council meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) will take place in Belgium 
 05 - 08 The Hague Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council 
06 Washington US-President Bush will welcome President Arias of Costa Rica to the White House 
07 Washington US-President Bush will host British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the White House 
07 Washington Iraq Study Group, chaired by former Secretary of State Jim Baker and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, release their report (tentative) 
07 Milan, Italy Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will welcome German Chancellor Angela Merkel 
08 Washington US-President Bush will welcome President Thabo Mbeki of the Republic of South Africa to the White House 
10 Berlin Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt, meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel 
11 Tehran, Iran Sergei Kiriyenko, director of the Russian Federal Agency for Nuclear Power (Rosatom), meets with Iranian officials  
11 - 12 Brussels EU: General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC)  
14 - 15 Brussels European Council