The UK's response to extremism and instability in North and West Africa - Foreign Affairs Committee Contents


Annexes


Annex A: Committee meetings on visits connected with the inquiry

MEETINGS IN ALGERIA

Briefing by HMA Martyn Roper and officials

Meeting with Mr Boubdellah Ghlamallah, Minister of Religious Affairs and Wakf

Meeting with Mr Boulahaya, President of Foreign Affairs Commission of the Upper House of the Algerian Parliament and other Members of the Commission

Meeting and lunch with Mr Belabbès, President of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Lower House of the Algerian Parliament, and other Members of the Commission  

Meeting with Mr Abdelmalek Sellal, Prime Minister of Algeria

Meeting with Mr Mourad Medelci, Foreign Minister of Algeria

Dinner with ambassadors of the Arab Maghreb Union in Algiers (ambassadors of Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia)

Meeting with members of CAERT/ACSRT (African Centre for Studies and Research on Terrorism)

Lunch with Algerian political scientists

Meeting with young people being supported under the UK Government's Arab Partnership programme in Algeria

Meeting with representatives of the World Food Programme, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UN Department for Safety and Security, UN Development Programme, International Commission of the Red Cross and UN Population Fund

MEETINGS IN MALI

Briefings from HMA Dr Philip Boyle and UK military personnel in Mali

Meeting with representative of UNOM (UN Office in Mali)

Meeting with Mr Pierre Buyoya, Head of AFISMA (African-led International Support Mission to Mali)

Meeting with General Abdulkadir Shehu and other members of AFISMA military command

Meeting with Mr Younoussi Touré, President of the National Assembly

Meeting with Mr Mohamed Salia Sokono, Chairman, Commission for Dialogue and Reconciliation, and other Commission members

Dinner with ambassadors of Canada, the EU and France, and Deputy US Ambassador

Meeting with Mr Mamadou Namory Traoré, Minister for Public Function

Meeting with Colonel Moussa Coulibaly Sinko, Minister for Territorial Administration

Lunch with representatives from UNICEF, International Monetary Fund, Oxfam and UN Population Fund

Meeting with Mr Sandy Haïdara, MP for Timbuktu and President of the Northern Malian Assembly caucus

Meeting with leadership of EU Training Mission in Mali

MEETINGS IN MOROCCO

Briefing with HMA Clive Alderton and officials

Meeting with Mr Khalid Zerouali, Director for Migration and Border Control and Mr Charki Draiss, Minister-Delegate, Interior Ministry

Meeting with Mr Taieb Fassi Fihri, Advisor to the King

Meeting with Mr Youssef Amrani, Minister-Delegate for Foreign Affairs, and Mr Nasser Bourita, Secretary-General of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation

Meeting with Mr Karim Ghellab, Speaker of Lower House of Parliament

Meeting with Mr Habib Benyahia, Secretary-General of the Arab Maghreb Union

MEETINGS IN NIGERIA

Briefings from HM High Commissioner Andrew Pocock, Mr Christian Rogg, Acting Head of DFID in Nigeria, and UK military and security personnel

Meeting with Brigadier-General Hassan Lai and other members of ECOWAS Commission military command

Lunch with Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North (also known as the Amnesty Committee)

Meeting with Mr Oronto Douglas, Special Adviser to the President on Research, Documentation & Strategy

Meeting with Dr Toga Gayewea Macintosh, President of the ECOWAS Commission

Briefing from DFID project managers and local clients in Kaduna

Meeting with members of the Kaduna Peace Committee, followed by lunch with Committee members and with community and religious leaders from Kaduna state

Meeting with Mr Mukhtar Yero, State Governor of Kaduna, and state Commissioners

Meeting with Mr Nwanze Okidegbe, Chief Economic Adviser to the President, Professor Soji Adelaja, Special Adviser on Economic Intelligence and Mr Ochi Achinivu, Adviser to the President on Economic Matters

Meeting with Dr Abdulkadir Oniyangi, Acting Chairman of the Independent Nigerian Electoral Commission, and other Commissioners

Meeting with General Sarkin-Yaki Bello, Counter-terrorism Coordinator and National Security Advisor to the President

Meeting with Mr Kashim Shettima, Governor of Borno, and state Commissioners

Dinner at High Commission with members of Nigerian civic society

MEETINGS AT THE US AFRICAN COMMAND ("AFRICOM") IN STUTTGART

Meeting with Lieutenant General Steven Hummer, Deputy to the Commander for Military Operations

Meeting and lunch with Ambassador Christopher Dell, Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Engagements and Ambassador Helen La Lime, Director for Outreach

Briefings from AFRICOM Command (chaired by Lieutenant General Steven Hummer and Major General Charles Hooper)

Roundtable discussions on development aid, counter-narcotics and piracy, counter-terrorism and special operations strategy with AFRICOM officials

Annex B: Informal meetings in the UK relevant to this inquiry

12 March 2013

Briefing from Ms Adjoa Anyimadu, Mr Paul Melly and Ms Elizabeth Donnelly, Africa Programme specialists, Chatham House

23 April 2013

Meeting with Rt Hon Stephen O'Brien MP, Prime Minister's Envoy and Special Representative for the Sahel at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office

24 April 2013

Meeting with delegation of deputies from the Parliament of Senegal

1 July 2013

Meeting with HE HH Princess Lalla Joumala Alaoui, Moroccan Ambassador

3 July 2013

Meeting with survivors of In Amenas hostage crisis and bereaved family members of victims of the crisis

10 October 2013

Meeting with the Rt Hon Baroness Amos, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

27 November 2013

Meeting with Mr Salaheddine Mezouar, Foreign Minister of Morocco and HE HH Princess Lalla Joumala Alaoui, Ambassador of Morocco to the UK


 
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