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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