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.

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

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.

The Secretary-General flew overnight from Washington to Brussels, and met privately with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Tony Blair, for a half hour on his arrival Friday morning.

The Secretary-General travelled to Washington, D.C., Wednesday evening, and on Thursday morning he went to the United States State Department to meet with Secretary of State Colin Powell.

ACTIVITIES OF SECRETARY-GENERAL IN BURKINA FASO, INCLUDING

 

BRIEF STOPOVERS IN CHAD AND MOROCCO, 24-25 NOVEMBER 2004

The Secretary-General left Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, early on Wednesday, 24 November, and headed to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, for an official visit.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan travelled from the United Republic of Tanzania to Egypt on Monday, 22 November 2004.

Early on Friday morning, 19 November, Secretary-General Kofi Annan left Nairobi for Tanzania’s commercial capital, Dar-es-Salaam, where he attended the International Conference on Peace, Security and Development in the Great Lakes Region.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, in the evening of Wednesday, 17 November 2004.