27 August - 8 September 2016
The Secretary-General will leave New York on Saturday, 27 August, for Singapore, on the first leg of a trip that will take him to Myanmar and Sri Lanka for official visits, to the People’s Republic of China for the G20 Summit, and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic for the annual ASEAN-UN Summit.
In Singapore, the Secretary-General is scheduled to meet with the Prime Minister [Lee Hsien Loong], as well as other Government officials. He will also be conferred an Honorary Doctorate by President Tony Tan Keng Yam at the National University of Singapore and will deliver the Ho Rih Hwa Leadership Lecture to students at Singapore Management University.
In the evening of that day, the Secretary-General will travel to Myanmar, where he will meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, State Counsellor and Foreign Minister, and hold a joint press conference with her. The Secretary-General will then attend the 21st-Century Panglong Peace Conference on 31 August.
During his visit, the Secretary-General will also meet with President [U Htin] Kyaw and Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Commander-in-Chief of the Myanmar Armed Forces, as well as other political and civil society leaders.
In the evening of the 31st, he will travel to Colombo in Sri Lanka, where he will meet with President [Maithripala] Sirisena, and Prime Minister [Ranil] Wickremesinghe, and other members of the Government and Parliament.
He will also deliver a keynote speech at a public event on the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular Goal 16, dedicated to the promotion of peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development.
While in Sri Lanka, the Secretary-General will also visit a resettlement site in Jaffna in the North of the country, and participate in an event on the role of youth in reconciliation and coexistence in Galle, in the South of the island.
On 3 September, he will be in Hangzhou, in the People’s Republic of China, for the G20 Summit. He will participate in several working sessions around the general theme of the Summit, “Towards an innovative, invigorated, interconnected and inclusive world economy”, in support of the G20’s efforts to integrate Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development into their long-term actions and to achieve a more inclusive and sustainable global economic growth.
While in China, the Secretary-General is scheduled to give a press conference at the G20 and also we expect him to have a number of bilateral meetings with other leaders attending the Summit.
He will then travel on to Vientiane, in Laos, for the eighth ASEAN-UN Summit meeting on 7 September, and the eleventh East Asia Summit, the following day.
On the margins of those events, the Secretary-General will meet with several senior officials, including the President [Bounnhang Vorachith] and the Prime Minister [Thongloun Sisolith] of Lao People’s Democratic Republic, who are the Chairs of ASEAN 2016. [The Prime Minister of the Lao PDR is the Chairman of the ASEAN Summit.]
The Secretary-General will be back in New York late on the evening of the 8th of September.