09 October 2014
8 - 12 October 2014
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The Secretary-General will begin a series of travels by first going to Washington, D.C., to participate in a series of special meetings at the World Bank. He will attend sessions focusing on the efforts to counter Ebola, to improve sanitation in Haiti and to support financing for development. He will also meet with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. From Washington, DC, the Secretary-General will travel to Tunis, Tunisia. He will be in Tunisia to express the support of the international community and the United Nations to the transition process in the country. In Tunis, the Secretary-General is expected to meet President Moncef Marzouki, Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa and Foreign Minister Mongi Hamdi. He will also hold discussions with the leadership of the National Assembly of Tunisia, including the Speaker and Presidents of the Committees, as well as representatives of the civil society. From there, he will travel to Cairo, Egypt, to attend the donor conference for the reconstruction of Gaza on Sunday, 12 October. |
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