Government Travel Expenses

Global Affairs Canada

Minister/Ministerial adviser/Ministerial staff/Parliamentary Secretary/Exempt Staff

Travel to Cairo and Sinai Desert, Egypt; Muscat, Oman; Prague, Czech Republic; Bratislava, Slovakia; Warsaw, Krakow and Oswiecim, Poland; Riga, Latvia; Tallinn, Estonia. (Egypt): Meetings with HE Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of State of the United Arab Emirates and Head of the Egypt Task Force; HE Nabil al-Arabi, Secretary General of the League of Arab States; His Grace Bishop Moussa; HE Nabil Fahmy, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Press conference with Minister Fahmy. Visited North Camp of Multinational Force Observer; tour of the south edge of the no-fly zone. Brief meeting with MFO soldiers from Canada, Fiji and Colombia. Media callbacks. (Oman): Reception with Canadian and Omani business and resident community. Meetings with HE Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs; HH Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud Al Said, Deputy Prime Minister; Sheikh Khalid Al Ma’awali, President of the Consultative Assembly and Dr. Yahya bin Mahfoudh al-Manthri, Chair of the State Council; roundtable with female members of the State Council; HE Sayyid Badr bin Saud al Busaidi, Minister of Defence. (Prague): Meetings with Mr. Vaclav Klaus, former President of the Czech Republic; HE Lubomir Zaoralek, Foreign Minister; HE Bohuslav Sobotka, Prime Minister. Press conference with Minister Zaoralek. Meet and greet with Canadian Embassy staff. Reception and Official Opening of new Canadian chancery. (Slovakia): Meeting and press conference with HE Miroslav Lajcak, Foreign Minister. Roundtable on Russia and Ukraine hosted by Central European Policy Institute. Inaugurated new Canadian auto parts plant in Svaty Jur, Slovakia. (Krakow): Tour of Wawel Castle, whose treasures Canada safeguarded in World War II and meeting with Professor Marcin Fabianski. Laid flowers at the tomb of former President Lech Kaczynski and Maria Kaczynski. (Oswiecim): Meeting with Mr. Piotr Cywinski, Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. Visit to Auschwitz I Extermination Camp and laid flowers at the Death Wall. Visit to Birkenau Extermination Camp (Auschwitz II) and laid wreath at international monument. (Warsaw): Meetings with HE Radowslaw Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and joint media availability. Meeting with Solidarity Fund PL and European Endowment for Democracy and other NGOs. Meeting with Holocaust survivors and participants in the March of the Living. Reception with Canadian and Polish members of the business community. Meet and greet with Canadian embassy staff. Interviews with Macleans and Rzeczpospolita. (Latvia): Meeting with HE Edgars Rinkevics, Minister of Foreign Affairs and joint media availability. Visit to the Museum of the Occupation. Media callbacks. Working dinner with Minister Rinkevics and Canadian and Latvian delegation members. Working breakfast with HE Andris Berzins, President of Latvia. Participated in tree-planting ceremony with President Berzins. Meeting with HE Raimonds Vejonis, Minister of Defence. Visit to the site of the Riga Jewish Ghetto, the Great Choral Synagogue memorial and the Rumbula Forest Memorial. (Estonia): Reception with members of Canadian and Estonian business community. Meet and greet with staff of the Embassy Office. Attended Freedom Online Conference. Meeting with HE Urmas Paet, Foreign Minister; HE Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President. Media callbacks.

Apr 16, 2014 to Apr 30, 2014

Egypt, Oman, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Latvia and Estonia

T-2014-P01-00052