The Minister’s meetings and trips in 2019

16.1 Visit by Félix Fernandez-Shaw, Director at DG DEVCO
24.1 Visit by Tomo Kimura, Director General, Asian Development Bank
24.1 Joint signature of LuxFLAGat the Ministry of Finance
30.1 Signature of 7 NGDO (non-governmental development organisation) development framework agreements

6.2 Discussion between Minister Lenert and Christos Stylianides, European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, Brussels
7.2 Conference on access to justice, The Hague, and discussion with Dutch minister Sigrid Kaag
13-15.2 Bilateral discussions with David Beasley, Executive Director of the WFP and with José Graziano da Silva, Director-General of the FAO in Rome
Meeting of Governing Council of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome
26.2 Joint signature of the Social Performance Task Force (SPTF) with the Minister of Finance at the House of Microfinance

8.3 Launch of the ‘Rethink your clothes’ campaign, organised by Caritas and Fairtrade
10.3 Round table on feminist foreign policy
14.3 Visit by Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund

1.4 Working visit to the WFP Innovation Accelerator in Munich
4.4 Launch of the 2019 edition of the Business Partnership Facility (BPF)
5.4 Launch of the ‘Fair Fashion Days’ fair
19.4 Working visit to Luxembourg by Luís Filipe Tavares, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Communities and Minister of Defence of Cabo verde

14.5 Statement on development cooperation policy to the Chamber of Deputies
15.5 Meeting of the EU Special Representatives for the Sahel in Luxembourg, discussion with AU Special Envoy on Women, Peace and Security, Bineta Diop
16.5 Meeting of Development FAC in Brussels
20-24.5 Diplomatic conference in Luxembourg
22.5 Working lunch with the Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, Simonetta di Pippo

9-14.6 Working visit by Minister Paulette Lenert to Bangladesh
18.6 Participation of Minister Lenert in the European Development Days in Brussels; discussion with Dr Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi
26.6 Visit to Luxembourg by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Laos, Saleumxay Kommasith
28.6-5.7 Working visit to Cabo Verde and partnership committee

8.7 Visit by the ‘Let’s Net’ training delivery unit, jointly organised by Emergency.lu and the WFP and working meeting with Rehan Asad from WFP
11.7 Visit by Dr Denis Mukwege to Luxembourg
19.7 Chamber of Deputies - Foreign Affairs Committee on the development programme in Cabo Verde
16.7 Signature of the additional agreement attached to the agreement with Caritas on the mandate in Kosovo

12.8 Discussion with Steve Collar, CEO of SES, as part of the emergency.lu collaboration
19.08 Press conference for World Humanitarian Day

7-16.9 Working visit to Laos and partnership committee
26.9 Discussion with Pedro Castilho – Empowerment through Entrepreneurship
30.9 Participation in the LuxDev Resident Representatives Week in Luxembourg

9-11.10 Visit to Luxembourg by Mali’s Minister of Employment and Vocational Training, Jean-Claude Sidibé
26.10 40^th anniversary of the Cercle of NGOs
15.10 Annual consultations with the WHO in Luxembourg
17-20.10 Mission to Niger and partnership committee
21-24.10 African Microfinance Week (SAM) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
21-24.10 Working visit to Burkina Faso and partnership committees
25.10 Chamber of Deputies - Foreign Affairs Committee on the development programmes in Laos, Niger and Burkina Faso

6.11 Opening ceremony for the 63^rd Congress of the International Association of Lawyers (UIA)
12.11 Opening of the 2nd EIB Donor Conference and signing of the 6th MoU with the EIB
12.11 Opening address at the event organised by Friendship Luxembourg on the Rohingya humanitarian crisis
13.11 Signing of the Space Law for New Space Actors agreement with UNOOSA
14.11 Visit by the Special Representative of the SG on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten
20.11 Celebration of ADA’s 25^th anniversary
21.11 European Microfinance Award ceremony at the EIB
22.11 Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the NGDO ASTM (Action Solidarité Tiers Monde - Third World Solidarity)
25.11 Meeting of Development FAC in Brussels

17.12 Visit of the company HITEC in the framework of the emergency.lu collaboration
18.12 Visit of Minister Lenert of the UNTIL Lab in Finland