The Secretary-General travelled to Seattle, Washington, on Monday evening, 29 November, to address, the following morning, the opening session of the ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The Secretary-General arrived in Istanbul in the evening of Wednesday, 17 November.
On Thursday morning, he participated in the opening ceremony of the Summit of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
The Secretary-General spent the weekend of 13-14 November in Kyoto, Japan, and departed from there to China on Sunday evening.
The Secretary-General arrived in Tokyo in the afternoon of Wednesday, 10 November.
The Secretary-General flew to Washington, D.C. on Monday afternoon, 18 October, for a two-day visit. On arrival, he taped an interview for the public television programme NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. That evening, he attended a dinner hosted by World Bank President, James Wolfensohn.
The Secretary-General left Sarajevo for Pristina on Wednesday morning. He proceeded directly from the airport to the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). He was briefed on the Missions work by his Special Representative, Bernard Kouchner.
The Secretary-General arrived in Geneva in the evening of Friday, 8 October.
On Saturday morning, he had a series of meetings, starting with Djibril Diallo, head of the Public Affairs Division of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), who briefed him on plans for the UNDP's NetAid Concert scheduled for that evening.
On Sunday, 10 October, the Secretary-General flew from Geneva to Rome. He had detailed discussions on Kosovo with his Special Envoy for the Balkans, Carl Bildt, in preparation for his forthcoming visits to Sarajevo and Pristina.
