ANNEX
VISIT TO RUSSIA
18-22 October 1999
Members taking part: Mr
Donald Anderson (Chairman), Mr Eric Illsley, Mr Andrew Mackinlay,
Sir David Madel, Mr Ted Rowlands, Sir John Stanley, Dr Phyllis
Starkey, Mr David Wilshire.
A. MOSCOW
Monday 18 October
HE Sir Andrew Wood, HM Ambassador, and Mr Tony Longrigg,
Minister and Deputy Head of Mission
Tuesday 19 October
Mr Gennady Seleznev, Speaker of the Duma
Mr Ivan Melnikov, Deputy Chairman, Communist Party
of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Duma Education and Science
Committee
General Roman Popkovich, Chairman of the Duma Defence
Committee
Mr Vladimir Lukin, Chairman, and members of the Duma
International Affairs Committee
Mr Grigory Yavlinsky, Leader, Yabloko
Mr Aleksandr Avdeev, First Deputy Foreign Minister
Visit to new Embassy site
Wednesday 20 October
(A) Morning
Economic and Drugs/Crime
(Members taking part: Mr Eric Illsley, Mr David Wilshire)
Mr Martin Gilman, IMF
Mr Michael Carter, World Bank
General Sergeev, Head of the Drug Control Department,
Ministry of the Interior
Defence Issues (Members
taking part: Sir David Madel, Mr Andrew Mackinlay, Sir John Stanley
and Dr Phyllis Starkey)
Mr Aleksandr Pikaev, Director WMD programme, Carnegie
Institute and Mr Sergei Oznobishchev, Director, Institute of Strategic
Assessment
Mr Alexi Arbatov, Deputy Chairman, Duma Defence Committee
General Ivashov, General Staff
Human Rights (Members
taking part: Mr Donald Anderson and Mr Ted Rowlands)
Visit to rehabilitation project for street children
Mr Vladimir Kartashkin, Presidential Commission on
Human Rights
Roundtable with Ms Ludmila Alexeeva, Moscow Helsinki
Group; Mr Diederik Lohmann, Human Rights Watch; Mr Valery Sergeev,
Prison Reform International; and Ms Tatiana Titova, Keston House
(A) Afternoon
Visit to Embassy flats
Visit to Visa Section
Visit to British Council
Mr Simon Clanaman, BBC World Service
Meeting with British Journalists: Mr Mark Webster,
ITN; Mr James Rodgers, BBC; Mr Giles Whittle, The Times; and Mr
John Thornhill, Financial Times.
B. ST PETERSBURG
Members taking part: Mr Eric Illsley, Mr Andrew Mackinlay,
Sir David Madel, Mr Ted Rowlands and Dr Phyllis Starkey
Thursday 21 October
Mr John Guy, HM Consul General
First Vice Governor Vyacheslav Scherbakov
Mr Aleksnadr Yakovlev and other members of the Leningrad
Oblast
Visit to British Council and ELT Centre, accompanied
by Ms Elizabeth White, Director and Ms Sue Boardman, Head of Teaching
Visit to Military Resettlement Centre, accompanied
by Squadron Leader Max Jardine
Friday 22 October
Mr Vatan'er Yag'ya, Deputy at the St Petersburg Legislative
Assembly
1. Economics/Business (Members taking part:
Mr Eric Illsley, Mr Ted Rowlands and Dr Phyllis Starkey )
Vice Governor Aleksashin, Chairman, Committee for
Economic and Industrial policy
Mr Aleksandr Bazykin, Mr Sergei Demon and Mr Igor'
Kostikov, Members of the Committee for Finance of the St Petersburg
Administration
Visit to Unilever factory
2. Human rights/Good government (Members taking
part: Mr Andrew Mackinlay and Sir David Madel)
Mr Vladimir Pylin, Electoral Commission, Leningrad
Region
Mr Yuri Vdovin, Citizens' Watch
Meeting with Representatives of the St Petersburg
Police: Mr Alexander Smirnov, acting chief of the Criminal Police;
Mr Alexander Gudz, chief of the Special Service Police; Mr Boris
Utsehovskiy, chief of the Drug Enforcement Department; Ms Galina
Baldina, chief of the International Cooperation Division; Ms Marina
Karaganova, inspector of the International Cooperation Division;
Mr Konstantin Rostov, deputy chief on science of the University
of the Interior of Russia; and Ms Tatjana Petrova, chief of the
International Cooperation Department of the University of the
Ministry of the Interior of Russia.
C. EKATERINBURG
Members taking part: Mr Donald Anderson and Mr Ted
Rowlands
Thursday 21 October
Mr Steve Harrison, HM Consul General
Mr Nikolai Danilov, Deputy Governor of Sverdlovsk
Region
Mr Arkady Chernetsky, Mayor of Ekaterinburg
Meeting with Sverdlovsk business community, local
British residents and Know How Fund partners
Friday 22 October
Briefing by SmithKline Beecham
Visit to BBC Training School
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