CLINTON TO MEET YOUNG EUROPEANS IN THE PARLIAMENT
By Toby Vogel
European Voice
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March 3 2009
US secretary of state to join Parliament president in town hall
meeting.
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, is to meet Hans-Gert
Pöttering, the president of the European Parliament, in Brussels
on Friday morning (6 March). After their talks, the two officials
will participate in a ‘town hall’ meeting with young Europeans it
the Parliament at 10am.
As previously reported, Clinton will also on Friday hold talks with
Karel Schwarzenberg, the foreign minister of the Czech Republic, the
current holder of the rotating EU presidency, Benita Ferrero-Waldner,
the European external affairs commissioner, and Javier Solana, the
EU’s foreign policy chief.
Clinton’s first tour to Europe since taking office will begin with an
informal dinner with foreign ministers from EU and NATO member states
plus Switzerland tomorrow evening (4 March). On Thursday (5 March),
she will attend a meeting of NATO foreign ministers, where the main
business is the preparation of the summit co-hosted by France and
Germany next month.
Clinton will then travel to Geneva for a meeting with Swiss Foreign
Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey and with Sergei Lavrov, the foreign
minister of Russia, before travelling to the Turkish capital, Ankara,
where she will discuss a recent Turkish initiative for resolving the
conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh and
the situation in Georgia.