Travel

The Secretary-General arrived in Cairo from Tehran in the evening of Sunday, 18 June.

In the wake of Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon, the Secretary-General embarked on a seven-nation Middle East tour to thank governments for their support for a smooth transition in Lebanon and to seek their advice on how to consolidate the peace there.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan departed New York on Friday afternoon, 9 June, for Washington, D.C., where he delivered a keynote address that evening to the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.

The Secretary-General travelled to Atlanta, Georgia, on the afternoon of Wednesday, 31 May.

The Secretary-General travelled to Washington, D.C., on the morning of Thursday, 25 May.

The Secretary-General arrived in Yaoundé, Cameroon, in the evening of Monday, 1 May.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Banjul in the morning of Friday, 28 April, for the first-ever visit by a Secretary-General to the Gambia.

The Secretary-General arrived in Libreville, Gabon, in the evening of Friday, 28 April.

The Secretary-General travelled to Bangui from Gabon in the afternoon of Sunday, 30 April, to begin the first-ever visit of a United Nations Secretary- General to the Central African Republic.

The Secretary-General arrived in Dakar, Senegal, in the evening of Tuesday, 25 April, following brief stopovers in London and Paris.