§ Mr. MooreTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which African countries(a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department have visited since June 2001; and what the (i) dates and (ii) main purposes of the visits were. [146937]
§ Mr. MullinThe following table shows visits to African countries made by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Foreign and Commonwealth Office ministers since 1 June 2001.
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Country From To Purpose of visit Mozambique 7 November 2002 8 November 2002 EU/SADC Meeting Burkina Faso 27November 2002 29 November 2002 EU/Africa Dialogue Angola/Ghana 4 December 2002 9 December 2002 Bilateral (Angola) and G8 Meeting (Ghana) Senega] 18 December 2002 19 December 2002 Bilateral Tanzania/Rwanda/Kenya 27 January 2003 31 January 2003 Bilateral Cameroon/Angola/Guinea 25 February 2003 28 February 2003 Bilaterals Cameroon/Angola/Guinea/Ghana 11 March 2003 12 March 2003 Bilaterals South Africa 29 March 2003 1 April 2003 Bilateral Botswana 1 April 2003 3 April 2003 Bilateral South Africa 4 April 2003 6 April 2003 Bilateral Mali 14 April 2003 15 April 2003 G8 APR Meeting Minister of State right hon. Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean Egypt 17 January 2003 23 January 2003 Bilateral (Visit also included Saudi Arabia) Morocco/Tunisia 14 September 2003 18 September 2003 The then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Mr. Ben Bradshaw Egypt 18 July 2001 25 July 2001 Bilateral(Visit also included Israel, Syria,Jordan and Lebanon) Algeria/Morocco 23 September 2001 26 September 2001 Bilateral Minister of State Mike O'Brien Libya 6 August 2002 8 August 2002 Bilateral Egypt 11 December 2002 13 December 2002 Bilateral,(Visit also included Qatar) Algeria 19 May 2003 21 May 2003 Bilateral/Familiarisation Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Mr. Chris Mullin Ghana/Cote D'Ivoire/Sierra Leone 22 July 2003 25 July 2003 Bilaterals/Familiarisation Kenya/South Africa 29 October 2003 5 November 2003 Bilaterals/Familiarisation Nigeria 3 December 2003 8 December 2003 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Eritrea/Djibouti/Ethiopia 12 January 2004 20 January 2004 Bilaterals/Familiarisation