AFET/DROI DELEGATION TO THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY NEW

Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union
Secretariat of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
AFET/DROI DELEGATION TO THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
NEW YORK
1 - 3 November 2015
PROGRAMME
as of 30 October 2015
Sunday 01 November
Arrival of members and staff, and individual transfer to hotel
ONE Millennium Hotel
1 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017
Phone: +1 212-758-1234
http://www.millenniumhotels.com/usa/oneunnewyork/
17.00 (TBC)
Joint AFET/DROI preparatory meeting
Monday 02 November
8.30-9.30
Briefing by H.E. João Vale de Almeida, Head of the EU Delegation to the
United Nations, and Heads of Sections
Venue: EU Delegation, 666 Third Avenue, 31st floor
9.45-10.45
Meeting with Mr. Andriy Tsymbaliuk, Deputy Permanent Representative of
Ukraine to the United Nations (Permanent Representative is out of town
for urgent business)
Venue: EU Delegation, 666 Third Avenue, 31st floor
11.00
Meeting with Charles Anyidoho, Chargé d'affaires Europe Division, UN
Department for Political Affairs (Director Bilman out of town)
Venue: S-2722 Board Room
12.30-12.50
Meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Venue: Conference room of the Secretary-General 38th floor (go to 37th floor)
ONLY MEPs + Heads of Secretariat can be accommodated!!!
13.15-14.45
Working lunch in honor of the four European Security Council Members
Venue: EU Delegation, 666 Third Avenue, 31st floor
15.00
Meeting with Ivan Šimonović, Assistant Secretary-General for Human
Rights, Head of the New York Office of the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights
Venue: UN Headquarters, S-2722BR
16.25
Meeting with UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson
Venue: UN Headquarters, S-3847 (go to 37th floor)
17.00
Meeting with Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping
Operations
Venue: UN Headquarters, S-2722
18.00-18.30
Meeting with Jennifer Welsh, Assistant Secretary-General, Special Advisor
of the Secretary-General on Responsibility to Protect
Venue: EU Delegation, 666 Third Avenue, 31st floor
18.30
Reception in honor of the AFET/DROI Delegation, hosted by H.E. João Vale
de Almeida, Head of the EU Delegation to the United Nations
(confirmation among others received from the President of the General
Assembly; Jeffrey Feltman, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs;
USG Drennan, Head of the UN Department of Safety and Security; Zainab
Bengura, Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict; Christina
Gallach, Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public
Information)
Venue: EU Delegation, 666 Third Avenue, 31st floor
Tuesday 03 November
8.30
Meeting with the Chair of the Third (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural
Affairs) Committee of the UN General Assembly, H.E. Omar Hilale
(Morocco)- DROI Members
Venue: Mission of Morocco to the UN, 866 Second Avenue
9.30
Meeting with Lakshmi Puri, Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive
Director of UN Women
Venue: UN Women, 220 East 42nd Street
10.45
Meeting with UNDP (Mr. Michael O’Neill, Assistant Secretary-General and
Director of the Bureau of external Relations and Advocacy (BERA); Ms.
Cihan Sultanoglu, Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the UNDP
Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent
States; Ms. Sima Bahous, Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the
UNDP Regional Bureau for Arab States)
Venue: UNDP, 1 UN Plaza, 21st floor
11.45-13.00
Empty time slot
13.15-15.00
Working lunch in honor of Mogens Lykketoft, President of the 70th session
of the UN General Assembly
Venue: EU Delegation, 666 Third Avenue, 31st floor
15.30
Meeting with Elizabeth Spehar, Director Policy and Mediation Division, UN
Department for Political Affairs
Venue: 2 UN Plaza, 25th floor (323 East 44th St.)
16.30
Meeting with Miroslav Jenča, Assistant-Secretary-General for Political
Affairs
Venue: UN Secretariat building, conference room S-2724BR
17.30
End of programme and individual departures
Requested meetings AFET/DROI (confirmation pending):

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute Columbia University, UN Senior
Advisor