Calendar of International Events 2006
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last modified: 08
December 2006 |
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January 2006 |
Date |
Location |
Event |
01 |
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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
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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 |
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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 |
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September 2006 |
Date |
Location |
Event |
01 - 02 |
Lappeenranta, Finland |
EU: Informal ministerial meeting: Foreign Affairs (Gymnich)
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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
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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)
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14 - 15 |
Brussels |
European Council |
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