ANNEX: THE COMMITTEE'S VISIT PROGRAMME,
THAILAND 15-17 MAY 2007
The group consisted of:
| Malcolm Bruce (Chairman)
| Ann McKechin |
| John Battle | Mr Marsha Singh
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| John Bercow | Sir Robert Smith
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| Richard Burden | |
Accompanied by: Matthew Hedges (Clerk) and Chlöe Challender
(Committee Specialist)
TUESDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2007
Chiang Mai
Briefing from Department for International Development
(DFID) and Foreign and Commonwealth (FCO) officials
Mae Hong Son
Briefing by Thailand-Burma Border Consortium, UNHCR,
International Rescue Committee and Jesuit Refugee Service
Meeting with Royal Thai Government local authorities:
- Mr Chana Naksuriya, Deputy Governor of Mae Hong
Son
- Mr Vajira Chotirosserani, Camp Commander of Ban
Mai Nai Soi Refugee Camp
- Mr Varitchart, Foreign Liaison Officer, Ministry
of Interior
WEDNESDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2007
Thai-Burma border near Mae Hong Son
Visit to Ban Mai Nai Soi Refugee camp ('Site 1'):
- Meeting with the Camp Committee
- Visit to Ban Tractor Health Clinic
- Visit to vocational skills training centre
- Visit to provisional holding centre
- Visit to Community Agriculture and Nutrition
(CAN) project office
Chiang Mai
Meeting with Back Pack Health Worker Teams; Thailand-Burma
Border Consortium; and the Burma Relief Centre
Briefing from Free Burma Rangers
Roundtable with stakeholders including Burmese exiles
living in Chiang Mai: Shan Women's Action Network; Women's League
of Burma; Democratic Party for a New Society; National Council
of the Union of Burma; Federation of Trade Unions-Burma; and Shan
Herald Agency for News.
THURSDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2007
Bangkok
Working lunch with UK Ambassadors to Rangoon and
Bangkok and DFID and FCO staff
Roundtable with donors:
- Alex Arvizu, Deputy Head of US Mission in Thailand
- Richard Whelden, USAID Deputy Mission Director
- Michael Stievater, USAID
- Jessica Adler, US State Department
- David Yasui, Counsellor, Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA)
- Andrew Jacobs, and Isobell Poppelbaum, European
Commission
- Liselott Martynenko Agerlid, First Secretary,
Swedish Embassy
- Helene Storm, First Secretary, Danish Embassy
- Mariann Ruud Hagen, First Secretary, Norwegian
Embassy.
Meeting with UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Burma; Médecins
Sans Frontières, Switzerland; International Committee of
the Red Cross Burma; and UN Office of the Co-ordinator for Humanitarian
Affairs (UN OCHA).
Roundtable with Hope International; Save the Children;
and International Development Enterprises (all based in Burma).
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