Select Committee on Foreign Affairs Uncorrected Evidence


VISITS TO AND FROM RUSSIA: SEPTEMBER 1998—SEPTEMBER 1999

SEPTEMBER 1998
7-10Visit to St Petersburg of Lord Donoughue, Minister for Farming and the Food Industry.
8-11Visit to Moscow and St Petersburg of Brian Wilson, Minister for Trade.
11Visit to Moscow of Roland Smith, Director of International Security, FCO.
14Visit to Moscow of Mr McKay, Clerk of the House of Commons.
14Visit to UK of Georgy Mamedov, Deputy Foreign Minister, and Mikhail Kasyanov, Deputy Finance Minister.
14-19Visit to Moscow of John Weiss, Group Director, ECGD.
17-18Visit to Moscow of Joyce Quin, Foreign Office Minister, and Anne Pringle, Head, Eastern Dept, FCO.
21Visit to Moscow of Paul Schulte, DPACS and MOD/FCO team (non-proliferation).
24Visit to Moscow of Baroness Symons, PUSS, FCO.
25-26Visit to St Petersburg by Sir John Kerr, PUS, FCO.
26Visit to Moscow of Admiral Sir Jock Slater, First Sea Lord.
28Visit to UK of Andrei Shapovalyants, Minister of Economy.
28-4Visit to Moscow, St Petersburg and Ekaterinburg of HRH Prince Michael of Kent.
29Visit to Blackpool of Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov.
OCTOBER

4-11


Visit to Oxford and London of Yuri Truntyev, Mayor of Perm.
5-9Visit to Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk of British Business Group.
8Visit to London of Igor Ivanov, Foreign Minister.
10-16Visit to Moscow and St Petersburg of Betty Boothroyd, Speaker of the House of Commons.
15-16Visit to Moscow of Rob Young, DUSS and Chief Clerk, FCO.
19-25Visit to UK of Mr Motorin, Deputy Finance Minister.
21-23Visit to London of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and Central Bank Governor Viktor Gerashchenko.
22-26Visit to UK of Andrei Kokoshin, Former Head of Security Council, and Sergey Oznobishchev, Institute for Strategic Assessments.
25-30Visit to UK of Federation Council International Affairs Committee.
26-28Visit to UK of Leonid Shinkarev, "Izvestia" Moscow Newspaper.
31Visit to UK of Mikhail Kasyanov, Deputy Finance Minister.

NOVEMBER
1-4Visit to Novorossisk of HMS London.
1-7Visit to UK of Mr Kuzmin, Chief City Architect for Moscow, and Sergei Kovalchuk, Director of Foreign Relations, Moscow.
8-15Visit to UK of Sergey Kalmykov, Executive Director "All Russia Today" newspaper.
11-18Visit to UK of Viktor Salnikov, Head of St. Petersburg Unit of Ministry of Interior.
13-22Visit to UK of Mr Shevtsov, Chairman of the Honour and Motherland Party. Also, Messrs Titov and Pachesnyev, advisers to Alexander Lebed, Governor of Krasnoyarsk.
16-20Visit to UK of Sergei Kiriyenko, Former PM.
17Visit to UK of Mikhail Kasyanov, Deputy Finance Minister.
23-27Visit to Moscow of Edna Young, FSA.
25-29Visit of HMS Cardiff to Novorossisk.

DECEMBER
03Visit to UK of Nicolai Egorov, Deputy Minister of Minatom (nuclear energy ministry).
06Visit to UK of Andrei Shapovalyants, Minister of Economy.
7-9Visit to UK of Grakhov, General Director of Radio C Ekaterinburg.

JANUARY 1999
25-29Visit to UK of eight Duma Deputies.
26-30Visit to Moscow and St Petersburg of John Kerby, Director (Eastern Europe), DFID.

FEBRUARY
1-2Visit to Russia of Derek Plumbly, Director Middle East and North Africa, FCO.

MARCH
3-5Visit to Murmansk, Moscow and Sochi of Robin Cook, Secretary of State, FCO.
14-18Visit to UK of Ilya Klebanov, First Vice Governor of St Petersburg.
15-17Visit to St Petersburg of Mark Gibson, AUS, DTI.
15-18Visit to Russia of House of Commons Select Committee on Defence.
16Visit to Moscow of David Manning, DUSS, FCO.

APRIL
12-13Visit to Moscow of North Atlantic Assembly Delegation.
26Visit to Moscow of Tony Brenton, Director Global Issues, FCO.
27Visit to Moscow of Sir David Hannay.

MAY
11-13Visit to Moscow of Keith Levinson, Central and European Directorate, DTI.
23-27Visit of Zhukov, Chairman of the Duma budget committee, and committee members.
27Visit to Moscow of Mr Clarke, Planners, FCO.

JUNE
2-5Visit to London of Duma Information Policy Committee.
13-17Visit of the Duma International Affairs Committee.
14-16FOC/MOD delegation to Moscow.
14-18Cross-Party Group of four MPs Future of Europe Trust Visit.
15Visit to Moscow of Ed Parker, HM Treasury, and Tristan Price, ERD, FCO.
21-23Six Cross Party MPs visit to Moscow (MacShane, Heal, Stevenson, Temple-Morris, Lyell, Chidgey).
23Russia/UK Business Forum, London (CBI, Chubais, Gusinsky Aven).
25Visit to London of Vladimir Titov, Head Second European Department, MFA.

JULY
1-2Visit to Scottish Parliament of Vladimir Lukin, Chairman Duma Foreign Affairs Committee.
5-20London-Moscow Car Rally, HRH Prince Michael of Kent.
11-14Visit to UK of Lebedev, Chairman of the Supreme Court.
14-16Visit to Moscow of Steven Wright, Director of Wider Europe, FCO.
21-22Visit to UK of Igor Ivanov, Foreign Minister.

AUGUST
19-20Visit to UK of Alexandr Livshits, G8 Sherpa.

SEPTEMBER

7-10

Visit to Moscow, Ekaterinburg and St Petersburg of Geoff Hoon, Minister of State, FCO.



 
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