ANNEX B
OVERSEAS VISITS ITINERARIES
ITINERARY
OF VISIT TO THE FALKLAND ISLANDS
29 November - 5 December 1999
Monday 29 November 1999
In transit
Tuesday 30 November 1999
Briefing from Commander of British Forces Falkland Islands
Meeting with the Dundee University artists
Working Dinner with the Officers
Wednesday 1 December 1999
Visit GRIFFIN
Visit 78 Sqn and BRINTEL
Visit 1312 Flt
Visit 1435 Flt
Visit Resident Rapier Squadron
Visit Air Traffic Control/Met Office/Fire Service
Visit RIC and working lunch at Mare Harbour
Visit East Cove Military Port
Visit HMS Dumbarton Castle
Visit Joint Communications Unit Falkland Islands (JCUFI)
Working dinner at Government House, Stanley
Thursday 2 December
Visit Mount Alice
Lunch with all ranks and contractors
Tour of Mount Pleasant Village (service accommodation)
Visit Estates Branch and BPD Facilities Management
Friday 3 December
Visit HMS Somerset
Stanley - Joint Services Explosive Ordnance Disposal to include
minefield tour at Gypsy Cove
Visit King Edward Memorial Hospital surgical team
Visit to the Museum
Visit to the Fisheries Department
Visit to the Agriculture Department
Meeting with Councillors
Saturday 4 December
Visit San Carlos military cemetery, Goose Green settlement
and battlefield site and Argentine military cemetery
Sunday 5 December
In transit.
ITINERARY
FOR VISIT TO BRUSSELS
7-9 February 2000
Monday 7 February
UK Delegation briefing at NATO HQ
Meeting with Dr Edgar Buckley, Assistant Secretary General, Defence
Planning and Operations Division
Round Table meeting with Permanent Representatives (US, France
and Germany)
Working dinner at the Ambassador's Residence
Tuesday 8 February
Round Table meeting with representatives from UK Delegation,
NATO HQ
Meeting with Lord Robertson, NATO Secretary General
Working lunch with Ambassadors
Meeting with Ambassador Klaus-Peter Klaiber, Assistant Secretary
General (Political Affairs)
Meeting with Mr Javier Solana, High Representative for the Common
Foreign and Security Policy
Wednesday 9 February
Briefings at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE)
ITINERARY
FOR VISIT TO THE GULF
30 March - 5 April
Thursday 30 March
In transit
Friday 31 March
SAUDI ARABIA
Orientation brief by Defence Attaché
Visit Eskan Base, Operation Bolton personnel and briefing
Visit Prince Sultan Airbase Operation Bolton personnel, briefing
and lunch
Working dinner with Deputy Head of Mission and Military personnel
Saturday 1 April
Embassy briefing
Office call - General Muhaya - Chief of Staff, Royal Saudi Armed
Forces
Visit Majlis as Shura (Parliament)
Al Yamamah (Equipment Programme) briefing and lunch
Briefing by British Military Mission, Sangcom (Comms Programme
for Saudi Arabian National Guard) and RN Liaison Team
Wash up discussions
BAHRAIN
Mine Counter Measures Group Reception & Tour of MCM Vessels
Sunday 2 April
Embassy briefing
Local calls - Crown Prince, Prime Minister, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Defence Ministry, Shura Council (Parliament)
Visit USS Stennis
Meet RAF Personnel deployed Muharraq
Embassy dinner
KUWAIT
Monday 3 April
Call on HM Ambassador and Embassy staff
Calls on Parliamentarians at the Kuwait National Assembly
Visit United Nations Iraq/Kuwait Observer Mission (UNIKOM)
Working dinner with First Secretary (Defence Supply)/Defence Attaché
Tuesday 4 April
Call on Chief of Staff, Kuwait Armed Forces
British Military Mission Briefing
Move to Ali al Salem Airbase
Working lunch at Ali al Salem Airbase
Visit National Institute for the Missing and POW Affairs
Wednesday 5 April
In transit
ITINERARY
OF VISIT TO NAPLES AND ROME
12-15 June 2000
NAPLES
Monday 12 June
Dinner attended by Commander in Chief,
Allied Forces Southern Europe (NATO) and AFSOUTH personnel
Tuesday 13 June
NATO HQ Allied Forces Southern Europe (AFSOUTH)
Admiral James O Ellis, Commander in Chief, AFSOUTH
Briefing on Southern Region Strategic Overview from LTC Serge
Leveille, Policy and Requirements Branch
Briefing on STRIKFORSOUTH (Regional Reaction Force) from Rear
Admiral Dymock and Colonel Jeremy Robbins
Briefing on AIRSOUTH from Lt General Ronald Keys (USAF)
Briefing on AIRSOUTH and the Lessons of Kosovo from Brigadier
General de la Vega and Lt Colonel Oehlers
Briefing on NAVSOUTH, Rear Admiral Lippiett, Commanding Officer,
NAVSOUTH and other NAVSOUTH personnel
Briefing from UK personnel
ROME
Dinner hosted by British Naval Attaché
Wednesday 14 June
Briefing by Sir Thomas Richardson KCMG, HM Ambassador
Joint Briefing by Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs (General
Vincenzo Camporini (Plans and Policy); Minister Mario Brando Pensa
(Coordinator for Security and Disarmament, MFA); Mr Sandro de
Bernardin (Head of CFSP Department, MFA))
Lunch attended by Senator Gian Giacomo Migone, Committee on Foreign
Affairs and Immigration
Meeting with Defence and Foreign Affairs Committees on the Camera
dei Deputati
Dinner attended by Professor Stefano Silvestri, Institute of International
Affairs
Thursday 15 June
Briefing from Alenia Marconi Systems
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