HC Deb 14 July 1993 vol 228 cc499-503W
Mr. Meacher

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the destination, dates and purposes of each overseas visit undertaken by the Minister for Overseas Development since April 1992.

Lady Chalker's overseas (ravel 1992
When Number of working days out of the office Where Reason
April
Monday 13 to Tuesday 14 Budapest 1st AGM of EBRD
May
Sunday 3 to Tuesday 5 2 Brussels EC Formal Development Council, Joint EC Development/Environment Council, Bilaterals with EC Commissioners
Friday 22 to Sunday 24 3 Lisbon Conference on Humanitarian aid to FSU
June
Monday 1 1 Geneva UN/SADCC Conference
Saturday 6 to Saturday 13 7 Rio de Janeiro UNCED
Sunday 14 to Monday 15 1 New York UNICEF Executive Board
July Sunday 5 to Tuesday 7 2 New York UN ECOSOC High Level meeting
Wednesday 8 to Thursday 9 2 Washington IBRD, IMF, IADB and State Department Bilaterals
Wednesday 15 ½ Brussels European Parliament Development Committee
Tuesday 28 to Wednesday 29 Geneva UNHCR Conference on ex-Yugoslavia
August
Thursday 20 to Saturday 22 2 Wolfsberg. Switzerland ICRC High Level Meeting
September
Saturday 12 to Sunday 13 2 Kenya EC Troika visit to Kenya and Somalia, Heads of Mission Conference in Zambia. Bilateral and drought relief visit to Zambia and Zimbabwe
Monday 14 1 Somalia
Tuesday 15 to Thursday 17 3 Zambia
Friday 18 1 Zimbabwe
Saturday 19 1 South Africa British-South African Conference, Durban and bilaterals with South African politicians
Sunday 20 1 Mozambique Bilaterals and drought relief
Tuesday 29 1 Luexembourg EC/ACP Joint Assembly
Wednesday 30 to Friday 2 (October) Former Yugoslavia Bilaterals and to see humanitarian relief work
October
Monday 5 1 Luxembourg FAC: Somalia briefing

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

[holding answer 12 July 1993]: The information requested is contained in the tables.

When Number of working days out of the office Where Reason
Tuesday 13 to Wednesday 14 Ukraine Bilaterals and visit KHF Projects
Thursday 15 to Friday 16 2 Russia
Tuesday 27 to Friday 30 4 Tokyo Humanitarian aid to FSU conference (28 October), Aid talks with Japanese (27 October)
November
Wednesday 4 1 The Hague/Brussels Bilaterals. Address to ACP Ambassadors
Saturday 14 to Sunday 15 2 Madrid Bilaterals
Tuesday 17 to Wednesday 18 Brussels EC Development Council
Thursday 19 to Friday 20 New York Address to UNGA. Bilaterals
Monday 30 1 Paris OECD: DAC High Level Meeting
December
Tuesday 1 1 Brussels EP Development Committee

Lady Chalker'x overseas travel 1993 (in date)
When Number of working days out of the office Where Reason
January
Sunday 17 to Thursday 21 4 Nigerial, Ghana Bilaterals, project visits
Wednesday 27 to Thursday 28 2 Bosnia Assessment of humanitarian relief operation
February
Friday 5 to Monday 8 2 Somalia, Kenya Bilaterals, project visits and (in Somalia) relief operation
Tuesday 23 to Thursday 25 3 South Africa Bilaterals with Mandela, Buthelezi, de Klerk
March
Monday 1 to Saturday 6 5 Nepal Accompany HRH Princess of Wales on working visit
Friday 26 to Saturday 27 1 Germany Königswinter Conference
April
Wednesday 21 1 Turkey President Ozal's funeral
May
Monday 3 to Wednesday 5 3 Hungary Accompany Her Majesty The Queen on state visit
Tuesday 18 1 Brussels ACP/EC Council of Ministers
Tuesday 25 1 Brussels EC Development Council
Monday 31 to Thursday 3 2 New York/Washington Bilaterals with UN/State/USAID/World Bank

When Number of working days out of the office Where Reason
June No Visits
July No Travel

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