Government Travel Expenses

Global Affairs Canada

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

Travel to Luxor and Cairo, Egypt; Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel; Ramallah, West Bank; Davos, Switzerland; and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Luxor): Signing Ceremony with local government representatives and media availability. (Cairo): meetings with: HE Sameh Shoukry, Foreign Minister of Egypt; Dr. Mohammed Ahmed el-Tayyib, Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar mosque; HH Pope Tawadross II of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Media availability with Minister Shoukry. Attended Canada-Egypt Business Council reception. (Jerusalem and Tel Aviv): Meeting with Mr. Moshe Kahlon and Mr. Michael Oren; Q&A with young Israeli business leaders. Roundtable discussion with Palestinian Business Leaders Ammar Aker (CEO Paltel Group); Bassam Walweel (CEO Golden Wheat Mills); Abdul-Malek Jaber (CEO Arabeneur) and Ibrahim Barham (CEO Paltrade). Meeting and working lunch with HE Avigdor Lieberman, Foreign Minister of Israel. Signing Ceremony with Minister Lieberman and presentation of Grand Challenges Israel Certificates. Meetings with HE Reuven Rivlin, President of Israel; former Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Mr. Salam Fayyad; US Congressional delegation including Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Sen Bob Corker (R-TN); Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY); Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN); Sen. Angus King (I-ME); Sen. Timothy Kaine (D-VA); HE Tzipi Livni and Mr. Isaac Herzog; HE Shimon Peres, former President of Israel; HE Moshe Ya’alon, Minister of Defence; HE Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister; HE Yuval Steinitz, Minister of Intelligence and Strategic Affairs; HE Naftali Bennett, Minister of Economy. Media Interviews with Jerusalem Post, Israel Hayom, and the Times of Israel. Attended roundtable on Israeli innovation. (Ramallah): Meeting with HE Riad Malki, Foreign Minister of the Palestinian Authority. (Davos): Attended Edelman Trust Breakfast. Meetings with Dr. David Elwood, Dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard; HE Toomas Ilves, President of Estonia; HRH Prince Turki al-Faisal; Domenic Barton of McKinsey. Attended leaders-level session on the new global context for strategic cooperation. Attended session on Ukraine chaired by Ukrainian Minister of Finance. Spoke on panel on “The End Game for Iraq and Syria” live broadcast to Arab world on al-Arabiya (along with HE Ayad Allawi, Vice President of Iraq; HRH Prince Turki al-Faisal; and HE Rousch al-Shaways, Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq). Attended Egypt official dinner with President el-Sisi. Spoke on panel entitled “A Multipolar World” (along with Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy; Dr. Joseph S. Nye Jr, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard; and HE Volkan Bozkir, Minister for EU Affairs of Turkey). Meeting with HE Pavlo Klimkhin, Foreign Minister of Ukraine. Attended Washington Post Luncheon. Meetings with Joerg Reinhardt, Chairman of Novartis; John Chipman, Director General and CEO of the International Institute for Strategic Studies; Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director of the World Food Program. Attended Canadian CEO Roundtable hosted by HE Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade. Meetings with HE John Kerry, Secretary of State of the United States; Robin Niblett, Director of Chatham House; Prof. Klaus Schwabb, Chairman of the World Economic Forum; Jean-Marie Guehenno, President of the International Crisis Group. (Riyadh): Meeting/briefing with Canadian Ambassador Tom MacDonald. Attended official ceremony to offer condolences to the family of the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Working dinner with the Governor General and the Saudi Ambassador to Canada.

Jan 12, 2015 to Jan 27, 2015

Egypt, Israel, West Bank, Switzerland and Saudi Arabia

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