September 18 | Brussels
Visa Facilitation and Readmission Agreement between EU and Western Balkan countries. Joint signature ceremony will take place at the press room of the Justius Lipsus building at 15:00. Rui Pereira, Interior minister of Portugal, European Commission Vice President Franco Frattini, responsible for Freedom, Security and Justice, and interior ministers from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegroand Serbiawill sign the Visa Facilitation and Readmission Agreement.
September 18 | Brussels
Justice and Home Affairs Council – Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs of the European Union meet in Brussels.
September 18 | Brussels
Conference on trafficking of children in South East Europe– launch of the report made by Save the Children (12:30-15:00) followed by Children Speak Out – Trafficking Risks and Resilience in South East Europe, press conference by Edit Bauer (EPP-ED, SK). European Parliament, PHS 0A50.
September 18 and 19 | London
Special Troika for Kosovo status negotiation will separately meet with Kosovo and Serbia negotiating teams.
September 20 | Belgrade
European Heritage Days 2007: Jan FIGEL, EU commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth attends the ceremony and a concert at the Kalemegdan Fortress in Belgrade, Serbia. Commissioner Figel will meet Serbian President Boris Tadic and Mayor of Belgrade Nenad Bogdanovic.
September 20 | Brussels
Olli REHN, EU Commissioner for Enlargement gives Opening Statement at a Seminar on Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA).
September 24-27 | Strasbourg
Plenary session of the European Parliament. MEPs are to debate reports dealing with both legal and illegal immigration, death penalty, sugar reform and other issues.
September 24 | Washington
Olli Rehn, EU Commissioner for Enlargement speaks at the German Marshall Fund in the United States, gives presentations at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown universities
September 24 | New York
EUHR Javier Solana meets bilaterally Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov and Albanian Foreign Minister Lulzim Basha
September 25 | New York
Opening of the United Nations General Assembly
September 26 | New York
EUHR Javier Solana meets Serbian President Boris Tadic.
September 26 | Strasbourg
European Parliament Plenary Session: Council and Commission statements – Secret detentions and unlawful inter-state transfers involving Council of Europe member states (reports Claudio Fava(PSE, IT) and Dick Marty, Council of Europe) (live on Europe by Satellite)
September 26 | Strasbourg
Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic visits European Parliament. Djelic will meet Martin Schultz, President of the Socialist Group in the EP, Joseph Daul, President of the EPP-ED political group in the EP; Doris Pack,MEP and Gunter Verheugen,Vice President of the European Commission.
September 26-27 | New York
EUHR Javier Solana and Olli REHN, EU Commissioner for Enlargement participate in Contact Group meeting on Kosovo on ministerial level
September 27-28 |Brussels
The Fourth European Cohesion Forum: “Growing regions, growing Europe”. The conference on EU cohesion policy will take place in European Commission’s Charlemagne building. (link)
September 28 |Zagreb
Official visit of EP President Hans Gert Pottering to Croatia: Mr Pottering will give a speech at the Plenary Session of Croatian Sabor (Parliament) and meet Ivo Sanader, Prime Minister of Croatia.
September 28 |New York
Direct on talks on Kosovo status between Belgrade and Prishtina negotiating teams, on the fringes of UN General Assembly meeting in New York.
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