The Secretary-General will travel to Bern on 4 October, where he will meet with the Federal Council of Switzerland.
*That same day, the Secretary-General will travel to Strasbourg, France. The Secretary-General will address a session of the European Parliament during which parliamentarians are expected to voice their support for the speedy ratification of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Immediately afterwards, he is expected to participate in a press conference alongside Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission; Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament; and Ségolène Royal, President of COP21. He will also have separate meetings with Mr. Schulz and with Thorbjorn Jagland, Secretary-General of the Council of Europe.
The Secretary-General will then travel onwards to Belgium where he will attend the Brussels Conference on Afghanistan hosted by the European Union and the Government of Afghanistan – that will take place on Wednesday, 5 October.
From Brussels, he will travel on to the Vatican, where he will participate in the First Global Conference on Faith and Sport. He is also expected to have a private audience with His Holiness Pope Francis.
On 6 October, in Rome, the Secretary-General will meet with President Sergio Mattarella of Italy, as well as with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and other Italian officials.
On 7 October, he will be in Hamburg, Germany, to attend the 20th Anniversary of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the independent judicial body established by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to adjudicate disputes arising out of the interpretation and application of the Convention.
While in Hamburg, he is also scheduled to receive the National German Sustainability Award and meet with Joachim Gauck, Federal President of Germany, and other senior officials.
The next day, the Secretary-General will be in Reykjavik, Iceland, to address the Assembly of the Arctic Circle, the largest network of international dialogue and cooperation on the future of the Arctic with participation from governments, NGOs (non-governmental organizations), corporations, universities, environmental associations and indigenous communities. The Secretary-General will receive an Award on behalf of the Assembly for his work in the fight against climate change.
The Secretary-General will also deliver a speech at the University of Iceland on international peace and security on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the 1986 Gorbachev-Reagan Summit, and meet with President Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson of Iceland, as well as the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister of Iceland.
The Secretary-General is expected to be back in New York on 9 October.