The Work of the Committee in 2008-09 - Foreign Affairs Committee Contents


Annex 3


Informal meetings held by the Foreign Affairs Committee in Session 2008-09

Thursday 4th December 2008
Mr Adnan Rashad Mufti, Speaker, and delegation, Kurdish National Assembly, Iraq

Tuesday 16th December 2008

Representatives of the Bahá'í Community of the UK: The Hon. Barnabas Leith, Principal Representative, Diplomatic Relations, and Daniel Wheatley, Government Relations Officer

Tuesday 16th December 2008

HE Barbara Tuge-Erecinska, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland

Tuesday 13th January 2009

Mr Silvan Shalom MK, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel, and Mr Yahav Lichner, Political Researcher at the Embassy of Israel

Wednesday 28th January 2009

Dr Hossein Nejabat MP, Mr Seid Mahdi Sadegh MP, Mr Rouhollah Jani Abbaspoor MP, Mr Gholamreza Asadollahi MP and Mr Ali Karimi Firoozjaee MP, and delegation from the Islamic Republic of Iran

Tuesday 3rd February 2009

Mr Andrew Gurr, Governor of St Helena, and Kedell Worboys, St Helena Government UK Representative

Tuesday 3rd February 2009

Mr Pak Kyong Son, Deputy Director, International Relations Department of the Central Committee, Korean Workers' Party, and Member, Supreme People's Assembly; Mr Ri Ung Gil and Mr Yong Kyong Chol, International Relations Department, Korean Workers' Party; Mr Kim Hyong Chol, Science and Education Department, Korean Workers' Party; accompanied by Mr Ri Ung Chol, Embassy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Wednesday 4th February 2009

Mr Fernando Sanchez, Chairman of the International Relations Commission of the Costa Rican Parliament, and HE Mrs Pilar Saborio de Rocafort, Ambassador of Costa Rica

Thursday 5th February 2009

Mr Simon Brooks, International Committee of the Red Cross

Tuesday 10th February 2009

Mr John Hartley, Turks and Caicos Islands

Tuesday 24th February 2009

Ms Beatrice Megevand Roggo, Head of Operations for the Middle East and North Africa, International Committee of the Red Cross

Tuesday 24th February 2009

Professor Dr Gordana Duroviæ, Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro for European Integration, HE Dr Dragiša Burzan, Ambassador of Montenegro, Mrs Nada Mihailoviæ Paviæeviæ, Adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister, and Duška Mariæ, translator and administrative assistant to the Deputy Prime Minister

Thursday 26th February 2009

Mohammad Gulab Mangal, Governor of Helmand Province, Mrs Nasima Neyazi MP, Mr Moallem Mir Wali MP, Mr Engineer Ismael, Provincial Councillor, and Mr Saleem Zmarial, Governance Advisor, Afghanistan

Monday 2nd March 2009

HE Dr Dejan Popovic, Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia, and Mr Dragan Zupanjevac, Minister Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission

Monday 9th March 2009

Ms Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy

Tuesday 10th March 2009

Gillian Merron MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for Overseas Territories, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Thursday 12th March 2009

Video conference with HMA Tel Aviv Tom Phillips and British Consul-General Richard Makepeace: pre-visit briefing on Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories

Thursday 12th March 2009

Sir John Sawers, HMA and UK Permanent Representative to the UN in New York

Thursday 12th March 2009

Mr Ilir Meta, Chairman of the Committee of European Integration in the Albanian Parliament, leader of the Socialist Movement for Integration, and former Albanian Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs

Thursday 12th March 2009

Božidar Ðeliæ, Deputy Prime Minister, Republic of Serbia

Tuesday 24th March 2009

Control Risk Security briefing on Afghanistan and Pakistan

Tuesday 24th March 2009

Members of the Council of Representatives of the Parliament of Iraq

Wednesday 25th March 2009

Stephen Wordsworth, HMA Belgrade, and Andy Sparkes, HMA Pristina

Wednesday 25th March 2009

Mr Sa'ad Hariri, Leader of the Future Movement, Lebanon

Wednesday 25th March 2009

Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, Prime Minister's Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Mr Mark Sedwill, HMA Kabul

Wednesday 25th March 2009

Peter Gooderham, HMA UK Mission to the UN, Geneva

Wednesday 25th March 2009

Robert Brinkley, High Commissioner to Pakistan

Thursday 26th March 2009

Anne Pringle, HMA Moscow

Thursday 26th March 2009

Sir Geoffrey Adams, HMA Tehran

Thursday 26th March 2009

Mr Thulani Maseko, human rights' lawyer, Swaziland

Thursday 26th March 2009

Peter Millett, HM High Commissioner to Cyprus

Thursday 26th March 2009

Mr Christopher Prentice, HMA Baghdad

Thursday 26th March 2009

Sir Richard Stagg, HMA New Delhi

Tuesday 31st March 2009

HE Hatem Seif El Nasr, Egyptian Ambassador

Monday 20th April 2009

Miroslav Lajcak, Slovak Foreign Minister

Tuesday 21st April 2009

HE Miss Natalia Solcan, Moldovan Ambassador

Tuesday 21st April 2009

HE Mr Alexandros N. Zenon, High Commissioner of Cyprus

Thursday 23rd April 2009

Cabinet Office and FCO pre-visit briefing on Afghanistan and Pakistan

Tuesday 12th May 2009

Lunch with Arab Ambassadors

Wednesday 13th May 2009

Senator Jiri Dienstbier, Czech Republic, and Mr Miroslav Kolatek, Minister Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the Czech Republic

Monday 18th May 2009

Lunch with Chinese Delegation

Tuesday 19th May 2009

Galmo Williams, Premier and Leader of the Progressive National Party, Turks and Caicos Islands

Tuesday 19th May 2009

Delegation from the National People's Congress of China: Mr Zha Peixin, Member of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress, Mr Chen Jiagui, Member of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress, Mr Yang Gengyu, Deputy of the 11th National People's Congress, Mrs Gao Jinlu, Deputy Director General of General Office, the National People's Congress Foreign Affairs Committee, Mrs Zhu Naizhen, Division Director, General Office, the National People's Congress Foreign Affairs Committee, and Mr Wang Liming, Staff, General Office, the National People's Congress Foreign Affairs Committee

Wednesday 20th May 2009

Mr Abdel Koudous Abedina, representative of the ousted President of Mauritania

Monday 1st June 2009

Mr Yoo-chul Won, Mr Min-sik Park and Mr Gyu-baek Ahn, Members of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea

Tuesday 2nd June 2009

Mr John Hartley, Turks and Caicos Islands

Monday 8th June 2009

Mr Hussain Abdul-Hussain, Chatham House Visiting Fellow

Tuesday 9th June 2009

Ms Dolma Gyari, Deputy Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile and representative of HH the Dalai Lama

Tuesday 9th June 2009

Mr Naoto Kan, Deputy Leader of the Democratic Party of Japan

Wednesday 10th June 2009

FCO briefing on Afghanistan

Thursday 18th June 2009

Lunch with Helmand Province MPs and APPG on Afghanistan

Thursday 18th June 2009

Delegation of MPs from Helmand Province, Afghanistan: Ms Nematullah Ghafari MP, Mr Hafi Wali Jan MP, Mr Haji Answar Khan MP, Mr Mir Wali Khan MP, Ms Nasima Niazi MP, Mr Naz Parwar MP

Martin Barber, former UN Co-ordinator in Afghanistan, Christian Dennys, representative of Co-operation for Peace and Unity

Thursday 18th June 2009

Azerbaijani Government officials and Parliamentarians: Dr Ilyas Ismailove MP, Human Rights Committee, Parliament, and Leader of the Delegation, Mr Samad Jafarov, Deputy Chief of Organised Crime, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mr Jeyhun Mammadov, Chief of Branch, State Committee on work with Religious Entities, Mr Nusrat Suleymanov, Second Secretary the Arms Control Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr Yasar Guliyev, Head of Department, Counter Terrorism Section, Ministry of National Security, Mr Guloghlan Muradli, Chief of Customs Violations Department, Mr Ilgar Safarov, Chief of Division, State Border Service

Tuesday 23rd June 2009

Mr Koji Tomita, Minister (Head of Political Section), Embassy of Japan

Tuesday 23rd June 2009

Former US Senator Bob Graham

Tuesday 23rd June 2009

Mr Boris Nemtsov, former Russian Deputy Prime Minister

Tuesday 23rd June 2009

Mr Andrii Goncharuk, chief foreign policy adviser to the President of Ukraine and Deputy Head of the Presidential Secretariat

Thursday 2nd July 2009

Alexander V. Sternik, Minister-Counsellor, Russian Embassy

Monday 6th July 2009

HE Dr Ivica Tomic, Croatian Ambassador, and Ms Maja Erceg, First Secretary

Tuesday 7th July 2009

Delegation from the Philippines, led by the Honourable Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada, Senate President Pro Tempore, and Mr Stephen Lillie, the UK Ambassador designate to the Philippines

Thursday 9th July 2009

Chris Bryant MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Sir Richard Gozney, Governor of Bermuda

Tuesday 14th July 2009

HE Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, accompanied by HE Elmar Mammadyarov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and HE Fakhraddin Gurbanov, Ambassador

Tuesday 14th July 2009

Dr John Benjamin, Leader of the Sierra Leone Official Opposition Party

Tuesday 14th July 2009

HE Mr Tesfamicael Gerahtu Ogbaghiorghis, Ambassador of Eritrea

Tuesday 14th July 2009

Moulana Fazl-ur-Rahman MNA, Chairman of the Kashmir Committee, Parliament of Pakistan

Thursday 16th July 2009

Sir John Chilcot GCB, Chairman of the Iraq Inquiry

Tuesday 15th September 2009

HE Antonio M Lagdameo, Ambassador of the Philippines

Tuesday 15th September 2009

Mr P M Amza, Deputy High Commissioner, Sri Lanka

Tuesday 15th September 2009

Mr Radwan Ziadeh, Chatham House Visiting Fellow

Wednesday 16th September 2009

Mr John Hartley, Turks and Caicos Islands

Thursday 24th September 2009

Mr Abdirahman Omar Osman, Minister of Treasury, Republic of Somalia

Tuesday 6th October 2009

HE Mr Nalin Surie, High Commissioner of India

Tuesday 6th October 2009

HE Ms Jadranka Negodic, Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Monday 19th October 2009

Mrs Rasa Jukneviciene, Lithuanian Defence Minister

Monday 19th October 2009

Mr Volodymyr Lytvyn, Speaker of Ukraine Parliament

Tuesday 20th October 2009

Mr Pierre Lequiller, Chairman, EU Affairs Committee, French National Assembly

Thursday 22nd October 2009

Mr Mark Lyall Grant, incoming UK Permanent Representative to the UN

Thursday 22nd October 2009

HE Mr Louis B. Susman, U.S. Ambassador

Tuesday 3rd November 2009

Mr Martin Davidson, Chief Executive; Sue Beaumont, Director Near East and North Africa; Alan Gemmell, Director External Relations; Cathy Stephens, Director Innovation; and John Worne, Director Strategy and External Relations, British Council

Thursday 5th November 2009

Dr Nicola Brewer, British High Commissioner to South Africa

Monday 9th November 2009

Delegation of Members from Israeli Knesset: Mr Nachman Shai MK, Mrs Anastassia Michaeli MK, Ms Tzipi Hotovely MK, Mr Yitzhak Vaknin MK, Mr Majalli Whbee MK, Mrs Talya Lador-Fresher, Deputy Ambassador, and Ms Judith Bueno, Foreign Affairs Department

Tuesday 10th November 2009

Mr Terje Rød-Larsen, President of the International Peace Institute, New York, and Francesco Mancini, Deputy Director of Studies

Thursday 12th November 2009

Mr Yahiaoi Lamine Baali, UK Representative of Polisario (Western Sahara)

Thursday 12th November 2009

Mrs Yazdursun Gurbannazarova (Chairwoman) and Mr Atamurat Tailyev (Member), Committee on Human Rights and Liberties Protection, Turkmenistan Parliament

Tuesday 17th November 2009 (during the Prorogation of Parliament)

HE Mr Tesfamicael Gerahtu Ogbaghiorghis, Ambassador of Eritrea

Tuesday 17th November 2009 (during the Prorogation of Parliament)

Hon. Lutfo Dlamini, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Relations, Swaziland

Tuesday 17th November 2009 (during the Prorogation of Parliament)

Prime Minister Robert Fico, Slovakia



 
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