US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled to leave Washington on Thursday, May 31, on a 7-day European tour that would take her to seven nations, including Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey.
According to the State Department, Clinton will hold bilateral meetings with senior Danish officials soon after her arrival in Copenhagen. She will also participate in the kick-off event for Green Partnerships for Growth, a bilateral initiative to promote green technology through public and private sector partnerships.
She will then travel to the Norwegian capital city of Oslo on June 1. While in Oslo, Clinton will meet with senior Norwegian officials and give keynote remarks at a global health conference hosted by the Norwegian government titled, "A World in Transition - Charting a New Path in Global Health."
She will also visit Tromso, north of the Arctic Circle and home of the Arctic Council Permanent Secretariat, on June 2 for discussions of U.S.-Norwegian cooperation in the Arctic, including on climate change and the sustainable development of untapped resources.
The trip will then take the US State Secretary to the Swedish capital city of Stockholm on June 3 for meetings with senior Swedish officials to discuss a range of issues, including green energy, Internet freedom, Afghanistan and the Middle East. While in Stockholm, she will also participate in a Climate and Clean Air Coalition event on short-lived climate pollutants.
Clinton will then travel to the Caucasus from June 4 to 7. In all these countries, the State Department said she is expected to discuss important issues of regional security, democracy,economic development and counter-terrorism.
Secretary Clinton will be in Armenia on June 4 to hold talks with President Serzh Sargsian and other senior Armenian officials. She will also hold meetings with Armenian civil society leaders during her visit.
On June 5, Clinton will open the U.S.-Georgia Strategic Partnership Commission plenary session in Batumi, Georgia. She will meet also with President Mikheil Saakashvili and hold discussions with a broad range of political actors and civil society representatives.
The very next day, the US Secretary of State will travel to Azerbaijan to meet with President Ilham Heydar oglu Aliyev as well as Azerbaijani civil society leaders.
Before she concludes her whirlwind tour, Clinton will co-chair the Global Counter-terrorism Forum Ministerial in the Turkish city of Istanbul on June 7 and hold consultations with senior Turkish officials on a range of foreign policy challenges, including Syria and Iran.
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