Annex: The Committee's visit programme
in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel
The group consisted of:
Malcolm Bruce (Chairman) Quentin Davies
John Barrett James Duddridge
John Battle Ann McKechin
John Bercow Joan Ruddock
Richard Burden
Accompanied by: Carol Oxborough (Clerk), Anna
Dickson (Committee Specialist)
MONDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2006
Jerusalem
Briefing from Department for International Development
and Foreign & Commonwealth officials
Meeting with David Shearer, Head, UN Office for Co-ordination
of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), OPTs
Ramallah
Meeting with Rafiq Husseini, Chief of Staff to the
Palestinian President
Roundtable with Palestinian businessmen:
- Mr Mazen Sinokrot (Chairman,
Sinokrot Global Group)
- Mr Jihad al Wazir (Deputy Governor,
Palestinian Monetary Authority)
- Mr Talal Nasser Eddin (Chairman and CEO Birzeit
Pharmaceutical Group)
- Mr Mazen Jadallah (Director General, Palestinian
Ministry of Finance)
Meeting with Negotiations Affairs Department and
Negotiations Support Unit
Group 1: Meeting with Salaam Fayyad, Member of the
Palestinian Parliament and former Minister of Finance
Group 2: Meeting with Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Palestinian
Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
Meeting with Hanan Ashwari, Secretary General, Palestinian
Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy
(MIFTAH); Janet Michael, Mayor of Ramallah; and Lanis Alami, Director
of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights
TUESDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2006
Northern West Bank (organised by UN Relief
and Works Agency (UNRWA))
Visits to Za'atara, Huwwarra and Beit Iba Checkpoints.
Visit to Balata Refugee Camp. Meetings with UNRWA
officials, school staff and pupils and the Balata Camp Popular
Committee
Visit to Awarta Checkpoint
Visit to Deir al Hatab and meeting with village Women's
Association
Jerusalem
Meeting with David Craig, Country Director, West
Bank and Gaza, World Bank
Meeting with John Kjaer, Head of Mission, European
Commission, Jerusalem
Meeting with British journalists based in the OPTs
WEDNESDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2006
Jerusalem
Meeting with Amos Gill, Executive Director, Ir Amin
Bethlehem
Meeting with Jaad Isaac, Director, Applied Research
Institute
Meeting with Zahi Khoury, Palestinian businessman
and Chairman of the National Beverage Company
Jerusalem
Meeting with Terry Boulata, lobbyist and advocate
Group 1 — Meeting with the EU Co-ordinating
Office for Palestinian Police Support (EUCOPPS) and the EU Border
Assistance Mission (EUBAM)
Group 2 — Meeting with the EU Temporary International
Mechanism Team
Civil Society Roundtable
- Andre Batarseh, East Jerusalem
YMCA
- Rula Nesnas, Palestinian Agricultural Relief
Committee (PARC)
- Iman Hammouri, Palestinian Non-Governmental Organisations
- Rania Kuttench, Palestinian Non-Governmental
Organisations
- Mazen Hashweh, Director of Resource Development,
Welfare Association
- Dr Tawfiq Nasser, East Jerusalem Hospitals Network
- Abed Al Qader Husseini, Faisal Husseini Foundation
Meeting with General Keith Dayton, US Security Co-ordinator
THURSDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2006
Shilo Settlement
Meeting with Yisrael Medad, Settler representative
Jerusalem
Meeting with officials from the Centre for International
Development Co-operation of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(MASHAV)
Meeting with Nimrod Barkan, Head of Political Research
Department and Daniel Taub, Deputy Legal Adviser, Israeli Ministry
of Foreign Affairs
Tel Aviv
Meeting with Ephraim Sneh, Deputy Defence Minister
Meeting with Shalom Turgeman, Foreign Policy Adviser
and Yoram Turbowicz, Chief of Staff, Prime Minister's Office
Meeting with General Speigle, Chief Policy Adviser
to the Defence Minister and Hagai Alon, Adviser on Palestinian
Issues, Ministry of Defence
Meeting with human rights and civil society organisations:
Economic Cooperation Foundation
B'Tselem
International Women's Commission
Peace Now
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