Minister's Programmes -
2005
December
Vienna, 20 December
Participation at Austrian-Hungarian joint government session
Brussels, 15-16 December
Participation at the session of the Council of Europe (accompanying the Prime Minister)
Brussels, 11-12 December
Participation at the session of the General Affairs and External Relations Council
Budapest, 9 December
Talks with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Brussels, 7-8 December
Participation at the meeting of Foreign Ministers of North Atlantic Council
Ljubljana, 5-6 December
Participation at the session of the OSCE Ministerial Council
Budapest, 2 December
Talks with Ban Ki-moon Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Budapest, 2 December
Participation at the meeting of the President of the European Union and the Prime Ministers of the Visegrád Four (accompanying the Prime Minister)
November
Athens, 30 November – 1 December
Working visit to Greece
Barcelona, 27-28 November
Participation at the Euro-Mediterranean Summit of Heads of State and Government (accompanying the President)
Budapest, 25 November
Talks with Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Meller
Budapest, 25 November
Talks with Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern (accompanying the Prime Minister)
Budapest, 25 November
Talks with Soren Gade, Danish Minister of Defence
Brussels, 21 November
Participation at the session of the General Affairs and External Relations Council
Budapest, 18 November
Courtesy visit by Bulgarian Deputy Foreign Minister Ljubomir Kyuchukov
Budapest, 17 November
Talks with Moldavian Foreign Minister Andrei Stratan
Budapest, 16 November
Talks with Douglas Alexander, British Minister for Europe
Jerusalem - Tel Aviv, 13-14 November
Bilateral talks and participation at the Yitzhak Rabin commemorations
Manama (Bahrein), 11-12 November
Participation at the conference „Forum for the Future”
Tirana, 10 November
Official visit to Albania
Budapest, 10 November
Talks with Katsutoshi Kaneda, Japanese Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs
Budapest, 10 November
Participation at the opening of the World Science Forum
Bratislava, 8 November
Official visit to Slovakia
Brussels, 7 November
Participation at the session of the General Affairs and External Relations Council
Lisbon, 2-3 November
Official visit to Portugal
October
Budapest, 28 October
Talks with Lithuanian Parliament Chairman Arturas Paulauskas
Peking, Shanghai, 23-26 October
Official visit to China
Bucharest, 20-21 October
Participation at the first Romanian-Hungarian joint government session
Budapest, 18 October
Negotiations with Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda
Budapest, 17 October
Negotiations with Swiss Foreign Ministerrel Micheline Calmy-Rey
Rijeka, Zagreb, 14 October
Official visit to Croatia (accompanying the Prime Minister)
Paris, 13 October
Official visit to France (accompanying the Prime Minister)
Budapest, 10-11 October
Participation at the meeting of the foreign ministers of the Western Balkans
Budapest, 10 October
Talks with Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency
Washington-New York, 4-8 October
Official visit to the United States (accompanying the Prime Minister)
Luxemburg, 2-3 October
Participation at the session of the General Affairs and External Relations Council
September
Newport, 1-2 September
Participation at the informal meeting of EU foreign ministers
Budapest, 5 September
Meeting with Pierre Besnainou, President of the European Jewish Congress
Budapest, 5 September
Talks with the representatives of Hungarians living abroad (in the company of the Prime Minister)
Peking, Hong Kong, 7-10 September
Official visit to the People’s Republic of China (accompanying the Prime Minister)
Rome, 13 September
Talks with Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, Foreign Minister of the Vatican, then talks with Italian Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini
Budapest, 15 September
Negotiations with Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer
New York, 16-25 September
Participation at the 60th Session of the UN General Assembly
Gyula, 30 September
Meeting with Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu
August
Rijad, 2-3 August
Participation at the burial ceremony of Saudi King Fahd bin Abdel-Aziz
Skopje, 19-20 August
Unofficial visit to Macedonia (talks with Foreign Minister Ilinka Mitreva and participation at the programme of the Ohrid Summer Festival’s Hungarian Day)
Prague, 22 August
Work visit to the Czech Republic (accompanying the Prime Minister)
Budapest, 30 August
Participation at the meeting between the prime ministers of the Visegrád Four, the Regional Partnership and the President of the European Commission
July
Budapest, 1 July
Talks with Catherine Colonna, French Minister Delegate for European Affairs
Nicosia, 7-8 July
Official visit to the Republic of Cyprus
Budapest, 11 July
Participation at the meeting of the V4 foreign ministers, and at the programme of the Regional Partnership foreign ministers with Ukraine’s foreign minister
Budapest, 13 July
Talks with Alberto Navarro Gonzáles, Spanish State Secretary for European Affairs
Budapest, 13 July
Talks with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Boris Tarasyuk
Budapest, 13 July
Participation at the informal meeting between the prime ministers of the Visegrád Four and the Regional Partnership
Budapest, 14-15 July
Participation at the 2005 Conference for Heads of Hungarian Foreign Missions
Singapore, 18-20 July
Official visit to the Republic of Singapore (accompanying the Prime Minister)
Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, 20-23 July
Official Visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (accompanying the Prime Minister)
Jakarta, Aceh Province, 23-27 July
Official visit to the Republic of Indonesia (accompanying the Prime Minister)
Budapest, 28 July
Participation at the inaugural session of the Council of the Motherland Fund
Budapest, 29 July
Participation at the roundtable conference „The forms of citizenship and the right to free travel in Europe”
May
Budapest, 2 May
Talks with Rolf Ekeus, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
Kyoto, 6-7 May
Participation at the ASEM Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, 8-11 May
Working visit to Malaysia and Singapore
Budapest, 12 May
Participation at the talks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Budapest, 13 May
Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Quadrilaterale Regional Cooperation
Budapest, 19 May
Participation at the talks with Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano
Budapest, 20 May
Meeting with Hungarian Members of European Parliament
Brussels, 23 May
Participation at the GAERC session
Belgrade-Podgorica-Subotica, 26-27 May
Official visit to Serbia-Montenegro (accompanying the Prime Minister)
Szeged, 28 May
Hungarian-Romanian-Serbian Foreign Ministerial Meeting in the context of the General Assembly of the Danube-Kőrös-Maros-Tisza Regional Cooperation
Budapest, 30 May
Talks with Columbian Foreign Minister Carolina Barco Isakson
Luxembourg, 31 May
Participation at the 7 th Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial Meeting
April
Bahrein, 4-6 April
Participation at the session of the EU- Gulf Cooperation Council
Skopje, Belgrade, Podgorica, Pristina, 10-13 April
Working visit to Macedonia and Serbia-Montenegro
Luxembourg, 15-16 April
Participation at the GAERC (Gymnich) Informal Meeting of EU Foreign Ministers
Hague, 18 April
Working visit to the Netherlands (accompanying the Prime Minister)
Vilnius, 20-21 April
Participation at the informal meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers
Budapest, 22 April
Talks with Louis Michel, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid
Rome, 23-24 April
Participation at the ceremony of investiture of Pope Benedict XVI
Luxembourg, 25-26 April
Participation at the session of the GAERC and the session of the Ministerial Council for Defence
Santiago de Chile, 28 April - 1 May
Participation at the Third Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies
March
New York, Washington, 30 March – 1 April
Official visit to the United States of America
Budapest, 29 March
Talks with American Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick
Paris, 24-25 March
Working visit to France
Brussels, 22-23 March
Participation at the session of the European Council (accompanying the Prime Minister)
Helsinki, 20-21 March
Official visit to Finland
Brussels, 16 March
Participation at the session of the General Affairs and External Relations Council
Seoul, 8-12 March
Visit to the Republic of Korea (accompanying the Prime Minister)
Budapest, 7 March
Talks with Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis
Budapest, 2 March
Talks with British Minister for Europe Denis MacShane
Budapest, 2 March
Talks with Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom
February
Budapest, 28 February
Talks with Montenegrin Foreign Minister Miodrag Vlahovic
Brussels, 22 February
Participation at the NATO and the EU-USA Summit (accompanying the Prime Minister)
Brussels, 21 February
Participation at the session of the General Affairs and External Relations Council
Zagreb, 18 February
Participation at the inauguration of Croatian President Stjepan Mesic, as a special envoy of the Hungarian President
Moscow, 16-17 February
Working visit to the Russian Federation (accompanying the Prime Minister)
Prague, 15 February
Working visit to the Czech Republic
Budapest, 14 February
Participation at the meeting with Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker
Budapest, 14 February
Negotiations with Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi
Kiev, 10 February
Working visit to Ukraine (accompanying the Prime Minister)
Brussels, 9 February
Participation at the NATO Foreign Ministers’ meeting
Budapest, 8 February
Participation at the negotiations with Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader
Budapest, 8 February
Meeting with Belgian Defence Minister André Flahaut
Budapest, 7 February
Bilateral talks with Cyprian Foreign Minister George Iacovou
Budapest, 7 February
Participation at the meeting between the Prime Minister and Cyprian President Tassos Papadopoulos
Moscow, 2-4 February
Working visit to the Russian Federation
January
Brussels, 31 January
Participation at the session of the General Affairs and External Relations Council
Budapest, 28 January
Talks with Macedonian Minister of Environment Zoran Sapuric
Kiev, 23 January
Participation at the inauguration ceremony of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko (accompanying the Prime Minister)
Stuttgart, 21 January
Participation at the Small Danube Summit (accompanying the Prime Minister)
Budapest, 20 January
Negotiations with Serbia-Montenegrin Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic
Kiev, 18-19 January
Working visit to Ukraine
Budapest, 17 January
Talks with Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu
Warsaw, 12 January
Participation at the Meeting of Regional Partnership countries’ Foreign Ministers
Brussels, 7 January
Participation at the special session of the General Affairs and External Relations Council
Budapest, 6 January
Talks with Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Nambong