Annex
Foreign Affairs Committee visit
to Afghanistan and Pakistan
26 April-1 May 2009
Participating Members:
Mr Mike Gapes (Chairman), Rt Hon Mr David
Heathcoat-Amory, Mr John Horam, Mr Paul Keetch, Mr Malcolm Moss,
Sandra Osborne, Rt Hon Sir John Stanley, Ms Gisela Stuart
ISLAMABAD
Sunday 26 April
Meetings with:
Mr Robert Brinkley CMG, High Commissioner, Islamabad,
and officials
Commentators and journalists
Heads of Mission
Monday 27 April
Tour of, and briefing on, the work of the High Commission's
Visa Office, the Consular Division and the Forced Marriages Unit
KABUL
Monday 27 April
Briefing with Mark Sedwill CMG, HMA Kabul, and senior
Embassy team
Meetings with:
Abdul Rahim Wardak, Defence Minister
Farooq Wardak, Education Minister
Mohamad Hanif Atmar, Minister of Interior
Ehsan Zia, Minister of Rural Rehabilitation
Ron Hoffman, Canadian Ambassador, Frank Ricciardone,
US Ambassador, Dr Marie Ricciardone, USAID, Marshall Elliot, Head
of DfID Office, Mark Bryson-Richardson, Political Counsellor
Tuesday 28 April
Briefing with the Embassy's Counter-Narcotics and
Rule of Law team
Tour of British Embassy Estate
Meetings with:
Sital Dhillon, Director, British Council, Afghanistan
Women parliamentarians
Senior British military personnel
Kai Eide, UN Secretary-General's Special Representative
Major General Formica, Commander of Combined Security
Transition Command - Afghanistan
Wednesday 29 April
The Group divided:
Kabul party
Meetings with:
Dr Rangin Dadfar Spanta, Foreign Minister
Foreign Relations Committee
Afghan Parliamentary Friendship Group with the UK
House of Commons
Ahmad Zia Massoud, 1st Vice President
Abdul Karim Khalilli, 2nd Vice President
Key ambassadors, NGO representatives
Visit to Ferdowsi Girls School, Kabul
Helmand party
Meetings with:
Governor Gulab Mangal
Hugh Powell, UK Senior Representative, Brigadier
Tim Radford, Commander Task Force Helmand, and senior military
and civilian personnel
Visit to Police Headquarters, Helmand
Thursday 30 April
Meetings with:
Matt Waldman, Oxfam
General Khodiadad, Counter-Narcotics Minister
ISLAMABAD
Thursday 30 April
Meetings with:
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani
Standing Committee on Foreign Relations, National
Assembly of Pakistan
Friday 1 April
Briefing with Mr Robert Brinkley, High Commissioner
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