last update December, 10, 2001

 

January 2001
Date Location Event
08 - 19 New York 2ndt PrepCom UN Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms
09 Stockholm Visit of the European Commission
11 - 12 Nacka, Sweden Political Committee
20 Washington Inauguration of new U.S. President
22 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
22 Brussels EU General Affairs Council
22 - 30 March Geneva Conference on Disarmament, Part I
23 Brussels EU General Affairs Council
23 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
25 - 30 Davos World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
30 - 06 February Washington NATO Parliamentary Assembly Comittee visit to the United States
31 Strasbourg German - French Special Summit
Jan/Feb USA National Missile Defense intercept test scheduled for late Jan/Feb.

 

February 2001
Date Location Event
- 06 Washington NATO Parliamentary Assembly Comittee visit to the United States
- 30 March Geneva Conference on Disarmament, Part I
02 Rome G-8 Sherpas Meeting
02 - 04 Munich 37th Munich Conference on Security Policy
05 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
06 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
06 Israeli Israeli election for prime minister
06 - 08 Brussels The Importance of Military Organizations in Stratospheric Ozone and Climate Protection
12 - 13 Rome G-8 Political Directors Meeting
12 - 23 Geneva BWC Ad Hoc Group
16 - 18 Rome G-8 Foreign Affairs Sous-Sherpas Meeting, Rome 
17 Palermo G-8 Winter Meeting of Financial Ministers, Palermo 
18 - 20 Brussels NATO Parliamentary Assembly Comittee meetings at NATO and the European Union
23 - 24 Washington / Camp David Prime Minister Tony Blair of the United Kingdom
24 Cairo Meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Ivanov and US Secretary of State Colin Powell
25 - 27 Tripoli Organization of African Unity Foreign Ministers Meeting
26 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
26 Brussels EU General Affairs Council
27 Brussels US Secretary of State Colin Powell to meet NATO Foreign Ministers and with EU officals
27 Brussels EU General Affairs Council
27 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 

 

March 2001
Date Location Event
- 30 Geneva Conference on Disarmament, Part I
01 - 02 Norrköping "Children in Armed Conflict and Displaced Children" Seminar
02 - 03 Baltimore Peace and the Internet Conference
02 - 03 Libya Organization of African Unity (OAU) Summit, Sirte
04 Switzerland Public vote for EU accession
05 Washington U.S. - E.U. Ministerial
07 Washington South Korean leader Kim Dae Jung
08   United Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace
08 Washington President Bush Meets NATO Secretary General Robertson
19 - 30 New York 3rd PrepCom UN Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms
19 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
19 Brussels EU General Affairs Council
19 - 23 Vienna International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors
19 - 27 April Geneva UN Commission on Human Rights
20 Washington Visit of Israel Prime Minister Sharon
20 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
20 Brussels EU General Affairs Council
23 - 24 Stockholm Special Meeting on the European Council, Informal Summit
23 - 24 Stockholm EU - Russia Summit
26 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
26 Brussels EU-MilitaryCommittee Meeting
27 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
29 Washington German-US-Summit (Chancelor Schröder meets President Bush)
30 - 31 Taormina, Italy  G-8 Sherpas Meeting

 

April 2001
Date Location Event
- 27  Geneva UN Commission on Human Rights
02 - 03 Simrishamn, Sweden Seminar on conflict prevention in the EU
02 - 06 Geneva Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) Second Preview Conference Preparatory Meetings
06 Brussels Informal Meeting of EU Ministers of Defense Ministers
09 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
09 Brussels EU General Affairs Council
09 St. Petersburg German Russian Summit
09 - 27 Geneva UN Disarmament Commission
10 Brussels EU General Affairs Council
10 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
10 - 13 France & Balkans US Secretary of State Powell to visit France and the Balkans
11 - 14 Moscow "Space without Arms Conference" organized by Russia
15 U.S. Deadline for Pentagon Report on Long-Range Plan for Nuclear Forces
18 - 19 Ystad, Sweden Seminar on European crisis management
20 Paris International Energy Agency Governing Board
20 -21 Quebec Summit of the Americans
22 Montenegro Parliamentary Elections
23 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
23 - 11 May Geneva BWC Ad Hoc Group
24 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
25 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
25 - 27 Geneva PrepCom for BWC - Fifth Review Conference

 

May 2001
Date Location Event
- 11 Geneva BWC Ad Hoc Group
04   EU Military Committee
04 Rome G-8 Non-proliferation Experts Group Meeting
05 - 06 Nyköping Informal Meeting of Ministers for Foreign Affairs
07 - 08 Florence G-8 Political Directors Meeting
07 - 11 Stockholm International Conference on Security of Measures "to Prevent, Intercept and Respond to Illicit Uses" of Nuclear Materials and Radioactive Resources
07 - 11 Copenhagen 3rd Annual International Conference on Export Controls for the Nations of Europe and North America, Copenhagen 
13 Italy Parliamentary Elections
14 Brussels EU General Affairs Council
14 - 15 Brussels Informal EU Defense Minsters Meeting to include candidate countries on the second day
14 - 18 The Hague 6th Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
14 - 13 June Geneva 62nd Session of the ABM Treaty Standing Consultative Commission
14 - 29 June Geneva Conference on Disarmament, Part II
15 Brussels EU General Affairs Council
16 Paris International Energy Agency (IAEO) Meeting at the Ministerial Level
16 - 17 Paris Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Council Meeting at the Ministerial Level
17 Moscow EU-Russia Summit
17 - 18 Brno, Czech Republic Central European Forum on Security and Cooperation
17 - 19 Washington US-Russia Foreign Minister Meeting
22 - 01 June Secretary of State Powell visit to Mali, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda and Hungary 
27 - 31 Vilnius, Lithuania NATO Parliamentary Assembly Comittee: Spring Session
28 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
29 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
29 - 30 Budapest NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting
29 - 30 Budapest NATO-Russia Permanent Joint Concil Foreign Ministerslevel
31 U.S. Deadline for "Military Significant Benchmarks" from President to allow U.S. forces to withdraw from Kosovo 

 

June 2001
Date Location Event
- 01    Secretary of State Powell visit to Mali, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda and Hungary 
- 13 June Geneva 62nd Session of the ABM Treaty Standing Consultative Commission
- 29 June Geneva Conference on Disarmament, Part II
03 - 05 Costa Rica Organization of American States (OAS) General Assembly
06 Thessaloniki  Southeastern European Defense Ministerial
07 Great Britain Parliamentary Elecations
07 - 08 Brussels North Atlantic Treaty Organization Defense Ministerial
07 - 08 Brussels NATO-Russia PJC Defense Ministerial Level
08 Iran Presidential Elections
09 Turku, Finland  Nordic/Baltic/U.S. Defense Ministerial
11 - 15 Vienna International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors
11 - 16 Sweden & Brussels President Bush visit to Sweden to participate in the biannual U.S.-EU Summit and Brussels to visit NATO. Also plans to visit Spain and Poland.
13 Brussels Special NATO-Summit
13 - 18 July Geneva 23rd Session of START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission
14 - 15 Stockholm & Göteburg U.S. - E.U. Summit
15 - 16 Göteburg Meeting of the European Council
16 Slovenia US-Russia Summit (Presidents Bush and Putin to meet for the first time)
18 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
19 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
20 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
21 Paris IAEO Governing Board
24 Albania Parliamentary Elections
25 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
26 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
27 - 28 The Hague 25th Session of the Executive Council of the OPCW

 

July 2001
Date Location Event
- 18 July Geneva 23rd Session of START Treaty's Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission
01   EU-Presidency passes to Belgium
03 - 04 Antwerp Extraordinary Meeting of the EU Research Group - Atomic Affairs
09 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
07 - 10 Paris OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
09 -20 New York United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects
10 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
14 U.S. Next Test of the National Missile Defense System 
15-25   Chinese President Jiang Zemin to visit Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldowa and Malta
17 Rome G-8 Political Directors Meeting
17 - 18 Brussels EU General Affairs Council
18 Genoa G-8 Foreign Ministerial Meeting
18 - 22 July UK, Genoa US-President Bush visit to the United Kingdom, Italy and the Holy See 
20 - 22 Genoa G-8 Summit
23 - 17 August Geneva BWC Ad Hoc Group
24 Kosovo US President Bush visit Camp Bondsteel
28 - 05 August Poland NATO Parliamentary Assembly Comittee: Annual Tour Poland
29 Japan Parliamentary - Upper House Elecations
30 - 14 Sept Geneva Conference on Disarmament, Part III

 

August 2001
Date Location Event
- 05 Poland NATO Parliamentary Assembly Comittee: Annual Tour Poland
- 17 Geneva BWC Ad Hoc Group
- 14 Sept Geneva Conference on Disarmament, Part III
21 - 28 Vienna Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty PrepCom
31 - 07 Sept South Africa World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
     30 East Timor Parliamentary Elections

 

September 2001
Date Location Event
- 07 South Africa World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
- 14  Geneva Conference on Disarmament, Part III
05 - 06 Brussels 4th EU-China Summit
05 - 07 Oslo Building a Vision: NATO's Future Transformation,   NATO/PfP symposium
07 - 08 Genval EU Informal Foreign Ministers Meeting
08 - 09 Gymnich EU General Affairs Council
09 Belarus Presidential Elections
10 Lima OAS Special Assembly to approve the Inter-AmericanDemocratic Charter
10 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
10 Norway Parliamentary Elections
11 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
11 - Dec. New York U.N. General Assembly
12 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
17 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
17 - 21 Vienna IAEO General Conference
17 - 21 Warsaw Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Human Dimension Implementation Review Conference
18 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
19 Berlin British Prime Minister Tony Blair meets Chancellor Schröder to talk about terrorists attacks in the United States
20 Berlin NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson meets Chancellor Schröder to talk about terrorists attacks in the United States
20 Washington U.S.-EU Ministerial Meeting
21 Brussels Extraordinary European Council Meeting
23 Poland Parliamentary Elections
24 - Oct New York UN General Assembly
25 Berlin President Mubarak meet Chancellor Schröder
25 - 27 Germany Bilateral Russian-German Summit, President Putin and Chancellor Schröder to meet
25 - 27 New York Conference on CTBT Entry into Force
26 - 27 Brussels Informal Meeting Of Defence Ministers

 

October 2001
Date Location Event
early Oct. Brussels EU-Russia Summit
Oct. Shanghai US-Russian-Chinese Trilateral Summit Meeting
03 Geneva World Trade Organization (WTO) Special Session on Implementation
05 Washington Georgian President Shevardnadse visit President Bush
05 - 09 Ottawa NATO Parliamentary Assembly Comittee: 47 th Annual Session
08 Brussels EP Committe on Foreign Affairs
08 - 09 Brussels EU General Affairs Council
09 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
10 Geneva World Trade Organization (WTO) General Council Meeting
10 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
11 - 12 Brussels Informal Meeting of the EU Defense Ministers
10 - 15 Frankfurt Book Fair
15 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
16 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
16 - 17 Brussels European Union Conference on Migration
20 - 21 Shanghai Presidents Bush & Putin meet at 9th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders Meeting
24   United Nations Day
24 - 30   U.N. Disarmament Week
26 Washington National Foreign Policy Conference for Leaders of Non-Governmental Organizations
29 - 30 Luxemburg EU General Affairs Council
29 - 01 Nov Vienna International Symposium on International Safeguards, Verification and Nuclear Materials Security

 

November 2001
Date Location Event
01 Washington Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel of Austria visit to Washington
05 Washington President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria visit to Washington 
05 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
06 Washington President Jacques Chirac of France visit to Washington  
06 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
07 Washington Prime Minister Tony Blair of the United Kingdom visit to Washington  
09 Washington Prime Minister Vajpayee of India visit to Washington 
09 - 14 Doha World Trade Organization Fourth Ministerial Conference
10 New York President Bush will meet with President Musharraf   
10 - 11 New York President Bush attend the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly
11 - 13 New York Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty  
13 - 15 USA / Texas Russian President Putin visit the U.S.A. and meet President Bush (Visit Bush's ranch) 
17 Kosovo Regional Elections
19 - 20 Brussels EU General Affairs Council
  19 - 17 December Geneva Biological Weapons Convention Fifth Review Conference of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and the Stockpiling of Bacteriological and Toxin Weapons and Their Destruction
20 Washington President Arroyo of the Philippines visit to Washington 
21 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
22 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
28 Washington Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar of Spain  
29 Washington U.S.-ASEAN Dialogue, Washington  
29 Vienna International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)Board of Governors Meeting, Vienna  

 

December 2001
Date Location Event
  - 17  Geneva Biological Weapons Convention Fifth Review Conference of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and the Stockpiling of Bacteriological and Toxin Weapons and Their Destruction
02 - 04 New Delhi World Economic Forum India Economic Summit
03 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
03 Washington Prime Minister Goran Persson of Sweden meets President Bush  
03 - 04 Brussels OSCE Ministerial Meeting 
03 - 04 Washington Prime Minister Sharon of Israel visit to USA
03 - 10    Secretary of State Powell visit to Romania, Belgium, Turkey and Russia 
04 Brussels EP Committee on Foreign Affairs 
05 Solomon Islands Parliamentary Elections 
06 - 07 Brussles NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting (NAC)
06 - 07 Brussles NATO-Russia PJC Ministerial Level
06 - 07 Brussles EAPC- Ministerial
09 Germany Russia President Putin meets Chancellor Schröder  
10   Human Rights Day
11 Geneva Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) Amended Mines Protocol Annual Conference
10 Stockholm Nobel prize award ceremony for 2001 peace awards
10 - 11 Brussels EU General Affairs Council
11 - 21 Geneva Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) Second Review Conference
14 - 15 Laeken EU Council (Summit)
18 - 19 Brussels NATO Defense Ministers Meeting (DPC)
18 - 19 Brussels NATO-Russia PJC Defense Ministers Meeting
18 - 19 Brussels EAPC Defense Ministers Meeting
19 - 20 Antalya, Turkey South Europe Defense Ministerial
27 Zambia Presidential/Legislative Elections 

 

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