Travel

The UN Secretary-General travelled from Spain to Israel for an official visit, with a day and a half layover in Geneva, Switzerland.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Madrid on Wednesday, 9 March, to attend the Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in London early in the morning of Tuesday, 1 March, where he addressed the London Conference in Support of the Palestinian Authority, convened by United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The Secretary-General arrived in Munich from London on Friday evening, 11 February.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan, on arriving in London from New York on Wednesday, 9 February, held internal meetings, including with his Special Representative for Iraq, Ashraf Qazi, and his senior political advisor, Kieran Prendergast.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Abuja, Nigeria, before daybreak on Saturday, 29 January.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Mauritius from the Maldives islands on Monday, 10 January.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in the Maldive islands on Sunday, 9 January, from Sri Lanka. It was the third and last of the earthquake- and tsunami-affected countries he would visit on this trip.

The Secretary-General and his wife Nane arrived from Jakarta to Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Friday night, 7 January, and began his visit Saturday morning with a meeting with representatives of a dozen United Nations agencies, plus the Asian Development Bank, to review their coordinated efforts to deliver relief to the victims of the 26 December tsunami.

During a stopover in Frankfurt, Germany, en route to Jakarta, Indonesia, the Secretary-General was asked by CNN what was going “right” in the massive relief effort under way to assist the victims of the 26 December earthquake and resulting tsunami, or tidal wave, that affected countries from Indonesia to Somalia.