Calendar of International Events

 

last update December, 10, 2002

 

January 2002
Date Location Event
01   EU-Presidency passes to Spain
12 Australia Parliamentary Elections
15 - 21 South Asia & Japan Secretary of State Powell visit to South Asia and Japan 
16 Washington Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit of Turkey visit to U.S. 
16 Vienna Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Forum for Security Cooperation
   Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebonon & Israel U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Negroponte visit to Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebonon and Israel  
21 - 22 Tokyo Afghanistan Reconstruction Steering Group Ministerial Conference
21 - 25 Brussels European Council
21 - 29 March Geneva Conference on Disarmament Part I 
24 - 25 Ottawa G-8 Nonproliferation Experts Group (NPEG) Meeting 
25 Seoul The Trilateral Coordination and Oversight Group (TCOG) meeting   
25 Washington Afghanistan's Interim Authority Chairman Hamid Karzai visit to Washington  
28 + 29 Brussels EU – General Affairs Council 
28 - 08 Feb. New York Second Preparatory Commission (PrepCom) Meeting on World Summit on Sustainable Development
31 Washington Chancelor Schröder visits President Bush 
30 - 04 Feb Washington / New York Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov to Visit Washington and New York
31 - 05 Feb. New York World Economic Forum Annual Meeting

 

February 2002
Date Location Event
- 29 March Geneva Conference on Disarmament Part I 
01 - 03 Munich Annual Munich Security Conference  
01 Washington King Abdallah of Jordan visit to Washington 
02 Costa Rica Presidential and Legislative Elections
- 04 Feb Washington / New York Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov to Visit Washington and New York  
- 05 Feb. Davos World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
05 - 06 Canada G-8 Sherpa Meetings 
- 08 Feb. New York Second Preparatory Commission (PrepCom) Meeting on World Summit on Sustainable Development
08 - 09 Caceres Informal Meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers 
06 - 08 San Diego NDSS 2002, Network and Distributed Security System Symposium
13 Washington President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan visit to Washington  
13 - 15 Vancouver G-8 Political Directors Meeting, Vancouver 
15 Washington President Jorge Batlle of Uruguay visit to Washington   
16 - 22 Japan, Republic of Korea & China President Bush visit to Japan, the Republic of Korea, and China   
18 + 19 Brussels EU – General Affairs Council 
21 - 22 Vienna Parliamentary Assembly winter session
26 Washington President Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola, President Joaquim Alberto Chissano of Mozambique, and President Festus Gontebonye Mogae of Botswana visit to Washington  

 

March 2002
Date Location Event
09 + 10 Zimbabwe

Presidential Elections 

10 Togo

Parliamentary Elections 

10 Colombia

Legislativel Elections 

10 - 13 Trinidad and Tobago Fourth Meeting of Ministers of Justice and Attorneys General of the Americas 
10 - 20   US - Vice President Cheney visit to Kuwait, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Turkey, Oman, Jordan, Israel and the United Kingdom 
11 + 12 Brussels EU – General Affairs Council 
11 - 15 Geneva Group of Governmental Experts on Disarmament and non-Proliferation Education (3rd Session)
12 Washington President Islom Karimov of Uzbekistan visit to Washington   
14 Berlin Afghanistan's Interim Authority Chairman Hamid Karzai visit to Berlin  
15 + 16 Barcelona European Council 
10 Portugal

Parliamentary Elections 

18 - 22 Monterrey, Mexico International Conference on Financing for Development
22 - 24 Mexico, Peru & El Salvador President Bush visit to Mexico, Peru & El Salvador
22 + 23 Zaragoza Informal Meeting of EU Defence Ministers 
25 Washington Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen of Denmark visit to Washington 
25 - 05 April New York Third Preparatory Commission (PrepCom) Meeting on World Summit on Sustainable Development
25 - 26 Bucharest Bucharest Summit 2002: The Spring of New Allies Deputy Secretary of State Armitage to attend the summit and then travel to Brussels.
27 - 28 Beirut Arab League Summit 
28 - 29 Canada G-8 Sherpa Meetings 
- 29 March Geneva Conference on Disarmament Part I 
31 Ukraine

Parliamentary Elections 

 

April 2002
Date Location Event
  Macedonia Parliamentary Elections
01 - 05 New York Panel of Governmental Experts on the Issue of Missiles in All Its Aspects (2nd Session)
04 - 06 Lanzarote EU- Asia Ministerial Meeting  
- 05 April New York Third Preparatory Commission (PrepCom) Meeting on World Summit on Sustainable Development
07 Rep. of Congo Presidential Elections (Second Round)
07 Coasta Rica Presidential Elections (Second Round)
08 - 19 New York First Meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the 2005 NPT Review Conference 
08 - ? Berlin Secretary of State visit to the Middle East, Germany and Spain 
09 Washington NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson visit to Washington 
09 + 10 Weimar Russian President Putin to visit German Chancellor Schröder 
10 Madrid EU - US Summit 
10 - 11 Kabul International Reconstruction Meeting 
14 East Timor Presidential Elections
15 Washington U.S.-Germany Environmental Forum 
15 + 16 Brussels EU – General Affairs Council 
16 + 17 Paris Organization of Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) Executive Committee in Special Session 
16 - 25 Vienna 11th Session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
17 Washington Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri of Lebanon visit to Washington  
18 Washington President Andres Pastrana of Colombia visit to Washington  
21 France Presidential Elections (First Round)
21 - 25 China Secretary of Commerce Evans leads U.S. business delegation
22 Beijing U.S.- China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade 
22 - 26 Brussels European Council
22 - 07 May New York United Nations Disarmament Commission (UNDC) 
23 Washington King Mohamed VI of Morocco visit to Washington  
23 Washington Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha of Bulgaria visit to Washington
25 Texas Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah visit to Texas
25 - 28 Montreal G-8 Labor Ministerial
26 Moscow U.S.-Russia Working Group on Afghanistan Meeting 
29 - 01 May Geneva The Doha Development Agenda and Beyond, public symposium (WTO)
29 - 03 (?) May United States German Foreign Minister Fischer visit to US  

 

May 2002
Date Location Event
01 Washington Vice President Hu Jintao of China visit to Washington  
02 Washington EU - US Summit  
- 03 (?) May United States German Foreign Minister Fischer visit to US 
03    World Press Freedom Day
03 - 04 United States President Jose Maria Aznar visit to Camp David  
05 France Presidential Elections (Second Round)
06 - 17 Indonesia Ministerial Meeting on World Summit on Sustainable Development 
- 07 May New York United Nations Disarmament Commission (UNDC) 
07 Washington Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba of Nepal visit to Washington 
08 Madrid EU - Canada Summit 
08 - 10 Kabul Chancelor Schröder visits Afghanistan's Interim Authority Chairman Hamid Karzai  
13 Brussels EU - General Affairs Council 
13 Brussels EU - Defense Council 
13 - 15 Paris Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Forum 2002  
13 - 28 June Geneva Conference on Disarmament Part II 
14 Brussels EU – Meeting of the defense Ministers 
14 Washington Prime Minister Mahathir of Malaysia visit to Washington 
14 - 15 Reykjavik NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting 
15 & 16 Paris Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development OECD Ministerial
15 Netherlands Parliamentary Elections 
17 Washington Prime Minister Janez Drnovsek of Slovenia visit to Washington
22 - 23 Berlin US-President Bush visit to Germany 
24 - 27 Russia & France US-President Bush visit to Russia and France and  Italy   
23 - 25 Moscow / Saint Petersburg US - Russia Presidential Summit 
24 - 28 Sofia NATO Parlimentary Assembly
28 Italy NATO-Russia Summit 
27 - 07 June Indonesia Ministerial Meeting on World Summit on Sustainable Development
28 Moscow EU - Russia Summit 
30 Algeria Parliamentary Elections 

 

June 2002
Date Location Event
  Bangkok/
Jakarta		 Regional Disarmament Conference on Small Arms and Light Weapons 
03 - 06 Paris Assembly of the WEU
04 - 20 Geneva International Labor Conference
05 + 06 Canada G-8 Sherpa Meetings 
06 + 07 Riga, Latvia "The bridge to Prague", Summit of the PrimeMinisters of NATO aspirant countries 
06 + 07 Brussels North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Defense Ministers Meeting 
06 + 07 Madrid EU - Asia Ministerial Meeting of Foreign Affairs 
07 Washington President Rudolf Schuster of the Slovak Republic visit to Washington
08 Tallinn Nordic-Baltic Defense Ministerial  
09 France Legislative Elections
09 Rep. of Congo Legislative Elections (Second Round)
10 + 11 Brussels EU – General Affairs Council 
10 - 13 Rome World Food Summit: Five Years Later 
12 & 13 Kananaskis, Canada G-8 Foreign Ministers Meeting  
14 Washington EU - US Summit 
16 France Legislative Elections
16 Colombia Presidential Elections (Second Round)
17 - 18 Brussels EU – General Affairs Council 
19 - 21 Rome Global Disaster Information Network (GDIN) Conference 
20 Washington Ninth annual U.S. - APEC CEO Roundtable, Washington 
21 - 22 Sevilla European Council
Summer TBD    Mideast Peace Conference  
- 28 June Geneva Conference on Disarmament Part II 
28 Brussels EU – General Affairs Council 
26 - 28 Kananaskis, Canada G-8 Summit 

 

July 2002
Date Location Event
01   EU-Presidency passes to Denmark
01  

The Rome treaty on the International Criminal Court enters into force  

01 - 05 Addis Ababa Regional workshop on the use of Space Technology for Disaster Management.  
01 - 12 New York Panel of Governmental Experts on the Issue of Missiles in All Its Aspects (3rd session) 
06 - 10 Berlin 11th OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session
11 Brussels EU - General Affairs Council  - Working Party on Terrorism 
17 - 18 Washington President Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland visit to Washington  
22 & 23 Brussels EU – General Affairs & External Relations Council  
22 - 26 New York Group of Experts on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education (4th Session)  
24 Washington Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe of Sri Lanka visit to Washington 
26 Washinton U.S.-Russia Counterterrorism Working Group 
27 New Zealand Parliamentary Elections  
27 - 03 Aug.   Secretary of State Powell visit to Asia 
29 - 13 Sept. Geneva Conference on Disarmament Part III 

 

August 2002
Date Location Event
TBA Japan UN Conference on Disarmament Conference
28 Greenland EU Ministerial meeting on the northern dimension (EU15+7)
29 - 30 Helsingborg, Sweden EU Conference on Conflict Prevention--Partners in Prevention   
- 13 Sept. Geneva Conference on Disarmament Part III 
30 - 31 Helsingør, Denmark Informal meeting of EU Ministers for Foreign Affairs 

 

September 2002
Date Location Event
02 - 11 Johannesburg World Summit on Substainable Development
07 Camp David British Prime Minister Tony Blair meets President Bush 
07 - 08 Los Cabos, Mexico Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Finance Ministers Meeting 
08 & 09 Geneva World Economic Forum, Arab World Competitiveness Meeting, Geneva
08 - 09 Washington Revisiting Arab-U.S. Relations: 9/11 - One Year Later and the Way Forward, 11th Annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference 
09 Washington Prime Minister Jean Chretien of Canada visit to Washington
09 - 11 New York 55th annual DPI/NGO Conference: Rebuilding Societies Emerging From Conflict: A Shared Responsibility  
09 - 19 Warsaw Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Human Dimension Implementation Meeting 
12 - 20 New York UN General Assembly General Debate
- 13 Sept. Geneva Conference on Disarmament Part III
13 - 14 Copenhagen Informal meeting of EU Ministers for Justice, Home Affairs and Civil Protection
15 Sweden Parliamentary Elections
15 Macedonia Parliamentary Elections  
16 Kashmir Regional Elections  
16 - 20 Geneva Fourth Conference of the States Parties of the Ottawa Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and their Destruction (UPD) 
16 - 20 Vienna IAEA General Conference
17 - 27 New York United Nations General Assembly General Debate 
18 Washington President Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic visit to Washington   
20 - 21 Slovakia Parliamentary Elections  
21    International Day of Peace  
22 Germany Parliamentary Elections
23 Washington President Askar Akayev of the Kyrgyz Republic visit to Washington 
23 - 24 Washington U.S.-Afghan Women's Council's "Women in Government" Program   
23 - 29 Brussels European Council
24 & 25 Warsaw, Poland Informal Meeting of the NATO Defence Ministers  
27 Maroco Legislative Elections  
29 Serbia Presidential Elections 
30 - 01 Oct. Brussels EU – General Affairs & External Relations Council  
30 - 01 Oct. Seattle Ending the Tragedy of Landmines Through Innovation and Cooperation
30 Sep - 04 Nov. New York UNGA 57: First Committee

 

October 2002
Date Location Event
- 04 Nov. New York UNGA 57: First Committee
- 01 Oct. Brussels EU – General Affairs & External Relations Council  
- 01 Oct. Seattle Ending the Tragedy of Landmines Through Innovation and Cooperation 
01 Washington U.S.-North Africa Economic Partnership (USNAEP) Ministerial Meeting   
04 - 05 Brussels Informal Meeting of EU Ministers of Defence 
05 Bosnia & Herzegovina (Tri-) Presidential Elections 
06 Brazil Presidential Elections (First Round) 
06 - 08 Kuala Lumpur World Economic Forum's 11th East Asia Economic Summit 
07 - 11 The Hague Conference of States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention 
09 - 10 Inari, Finland Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting  
10 Pakistan Legislative Elections 
10 - 11 Baku, Azerbijan Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)  Conference on Religious Freedom and Combating Terrorism 
18 - 20 New York Non-Governmental Organization Strategy Summit (to coincide with UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security)  
21 & 22 Brussels EU – General Affairs & External Relations Council  
24 Bahrain Parliamentary Elections  
24 - 25 Brussels Extraordinary meeting of the European Council  
25 Crawford, Texas President Jiang Zemin of China visit to Crawford  
27 Brazil Presidential Elections (Second Round) 
29 Washington U.S.-Australia (AUSMIN) Ministerial 
30 - 01 Washington German Foreign Minister Fischer visit to Washington 

 

November 2002
Date Location Event
TBA New York 18th Ministerial Meeting of the Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa  
- 04 Nov. New York UNGA 57: First Committee
01 - 04 Signapore Fifth Pacific Chiefs of Defense Conference 
03 Turkey Parliamentary Elections 
04 Berlin NATO Secretary General Robertson to visit Chancelor Schröder 
05 United States Legislative Elections  
06    International Day of Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict  
08 Brussels German Defense Minister Struck visits NATO Headquarter  
08 Washington German Defense Minister Struck visits US Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld  
08 Washington Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy of Hungary visit to Washington 
10 - 11 Bulgaria First Preparatory Seminar for the 11th Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Economic Forum Trafficking in Human Beings, Drugs, Small Arms and Light Weapons: National and International Economic Impact (Conference scheduled for May 2003) 
10 - 12 Seoul The Second Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies
11 Brussels EU - Russia Summit  
11 - 13 Sabtiago Hemispheric Conference on International Migration: Human Rights and Trafficking in Migrants 
11 - 22 Geneva 5th Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (resumed session)  
14 Washington President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada of Bolivia visit to Washington 
15 - 19 Istanbul NATO Parlimentary Assembly
18 & 19 Brussels EU – General Affairs & External Relations Council  
18 - 22 Santiago Fifth Defense Ministerial of the Americas 
19 - 20 Houston West Africa Oil & Gas Forum 
19 - 23 Czech Republic Russia, Lithuania and Romania US-President Bush visit to the Czech Republic for the NATO Summit, Russia, Lithuania and Romania 
20 - 22 Rio de Janeiro World Economic Forum's Latin American Business Summit 
21 + 22 Prague North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit 
21 + 22 Prague EAPC Council Meeting
21 + 22 Prague Ministerial Meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission
21 + 22 Prague NATO Russia Council (Foreign Ministers)
24 Austria Legislative Elections 
24 Ecuador Presidential/Legislative Elections (Second Round)
25 - 26 Mexico Secretary of State Powell visit to Mexico to attend the Bi-National Commission meetings between the United States and Mexico 

 

December 2002
Date Location Event
01 Benin (First Ever) Municipal Elections 
01 - 03 China Russian President Putin visits China 
02 Bonn, Germany 2nd Conference on Afghanistan 
02 - 05 Paris Assembly of the WEU
03 Tokyo Preparatory Conference on Peace and Reconstruction in Aceh, Tokyo
03 - 05 India Russian President Putin visits India 
06 - 07 Porto, Portugal Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Ministerial   
09 Washington President Emomali Rahmonov of Tajikistan visit to Washington
09 Washington Prime Minister Paavo Liponen of Finland visit to Washington
09 - 13 Geneva  Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention Sixth Meeting   
10 Washington President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil visit to Washington  
10 - 13 The Hague 31st Regular Session of the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)   
12 - 13 Copenhagen Meeting of the European Council 
15 Equatorial Guinea Parliamentary Elections  
15 Madagascar Parliamentary Elections  
16 Beijing U.S.-China to resume Human Rights Dialogue 
16 Washington Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei visit to Washington 
17 - 18 Oslo Annual Afghanistan Support Group (ASG) Meeting 
18 Washington President Jose Maria Aznar of Spain visit to Washington 
18 Washington U.S.-EU Ministerial 
19 South Korea Presidential Elections 
22 & 23 Brussels EU – General Affairs & External Relations Council  
27 Kenya Presidential/General Elections  

 

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