Meetings and conferences attended by the OPEC Fund in 2001
January
Beirut, Lebanon.
Forty-ninth meeting of the Coordination Group of Arab/OPEC/Islamic Aid Development Institutions.
Staff
February
Washington, D.C., USA.
World Bank forum on Policies, Strategies and Practices.
Assistant Director-General, Operations
Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Chicago State University: Abdulsalami Abubakar Lecture Series.
Director-General
Washington, D.C., USA.
Special Advisory Commission - Multilateral Development Banks in Emerging Markets.
Director-General
Da Nang, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Public sector project appraisal mission.
Staff
March
Nouakchott, Mauritania.
General Assembly of Mauritanie Leasing.
Staff
Paris, France.
Donors' conference on the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases.
Director, Information and Economic Services
Frankfurt, Germany.
Meeting with Deutsche Asset Management.
Assistant Director-General, Finance and staff
Washington, D.C., USA.
Multilateral Development Banks Meeting on the HIPC Initiative.
Staff
Caracas, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Meeting with representatives of the Venezuelan Investment Fund.
Assistant Director-General, Operations
Lima, Peru.
Private sector appraisal mission.
Staff
Santiago, Chile.
Forty-second annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the IDB and sixteenth annual meeting of the
IIC.
General Counsel; Assistant Director-General, Operations and staff
London, England.
Attendance of financial seminars.
Staff
Damascus, Syria.
Private sector appraisal mission.
Staff
Damascus, Syria.
Meeting with government minister.
Director-General
London, England.
Signing of Memorandum of Understanding with EBRD.
Director-General and Assistant Director-General, Operations
April
Vienna, Austria.
Meeting with representatives of the ILO.
Director-General; Assistant Director-General, Finance; Director, Administration and Personnel; Director, Information and Economic Services; and staff
Manama, Bahrain.
International conference on controlling the spread of Old World Screwworm.
Staff
Garoua and Douala, Cameroon.
Public sector project appraisal mission.
Staff
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Fiftieth meeting of the Coordination Group of Arab/OPEC/Islamic Aid Development Institutions.
Staff
London, England.
Eleventh annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the EBRD.
General Counsel
Windhoek, Namibia.
Transport Investment Forum of the SADC.
Staff
Algiers, Algeria.
High Level Meeting of African Energy and Mines Ministers.
Director, Information and Economic Services and staff
Abuja, Nigeria.
Summit and Technical Meeting of the OAU on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Other Related Infectious Diseases.
Director-General and staff
Washington, D.C., USA.
• Seventy-seventh meeting of the Deputies of the G-24 (the Inter-governmental Group of 24 on International Monetary Affairs).
• Sixty-fifth meeting of the Ministers of the G-24.
• Sixty-third meeting of the Development Committee (Joint Ministerial Committee of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank and the IMF on the Transfer of Real Resources to Developing Countries.
Director-General and Assistant Director-General, Operations
Malé, the Maldives; Colombo, Sri Lanka; Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Private sector appraisal missions.
Staff
May
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Thirty-fourth annual meeting of the AsDB.
Director-General and staff
Brussels, Belgium.
UN LDC III Conference.
Staff
Geneva, Switzerland.
Tripartite Meeting of Experts on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work.
Director, Information and Economic Services
New York and San Diego, USA.
Meeting with portfolio managers.
Assistant Director-General, Finance
Paris, France.
Meeting with Indocam Asset Management and Paribas.
Assistant Director-General, Finance and staff
Valencia, Spain.
AfDB Annual Meetings.
Assistant Director-General, Operations and staff
June
Safat, Kuwait; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Consultations with sister organizations - Kuwait Fund, Arab Fund and the
IsDB.
Staff
Lusaka, Zambia.
Public sector project appraisal mission.
Staff
San Domingo, Dominican Republic; Kingston, Jamaica.
Private sector promotion and appraisal mission.
Staff
Washington, D.C., USA.
Memorial ceremony to honor Dr. Ibrahim F. Shihata, former Director-General of the OPEC Fund.
Director-General
Rabat, Morocco.
Ministerial Meeting to discuss dryland areas of WANA.
Director-General
Rome, Italy.
FAO conference on Resources Mobilization.
Director-General and Assistant Director-General, Operations
July
London, England.
Euromoney Conference: Syria: A New Dawn for Business, Trade and Investment.
Staff
Rome, Italy.
Visit to IFAD and Banco di Roma.
Assistant Director-General, Finance
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Meeting with government ministers.
General Counsel, staff
Bonn, Germany.
Pre-COP-6 (Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) Coordination Meeting.
Director, Information and Economic Services
New York and San Diego, USA.
Meetings with portfolio managers.
Director-General and Assistant Director-General, Finance
Khartoum, the Sudan.
Private sector appraisal mission.
Staff
Delhi, India.
Public and private sector appraisal mission.
General Counsel and staff
Cairo, Egypt.
Private sector appraisal mission.
Staff
August
Tehran, Iran I.R.
Tenth ministerial-level meeting of the Group of 77: Intergovernmental Follow-Up and Coordination Committee on Economic Cooperation Among Developing Countries.
Director-General; Assistant Director-General, Finance; and staff
Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
International Conference on Poverty Reduction.
Staff
Damascus, Syria.
Meeting with government ministers.
Director-General and staff
September
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Announcement of AGFUND's International Prize for Pioneering Development Projects.
Chairman of the Governing Board and Director-General
San Francisco, USA.
TechMentor Conference.
Staff
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Public sector project appraisal mission.
Staff
New York, USA.
G-24 Workshop on Financing for Development.
Director, Information and Economic Services
Berlin, Germany.
Alternative Investment Roundtable organized by Institutional Investor Conferences.
Staff
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Public sector project appraisal mission.
Staff
October
Yaounde, Cameroon.
Public sector project appraisal mission.
Staff
Washington, D.C., USA.
Multilateral Development Banks Meeting on the HIPC Initiative.
Staff
Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
32nd Executive Board Meeting of the Common Fund for Commodities.
General Counsel
Geneva, Switzerland.
Consultations with WHO on OPEC Fund HIV/AIDS projects/programs.
Director, Information and Economic Services and staff
Entebee, Uganda.
Private sector appraisal mission.
Staff
Algiers, Algeria.
26th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the IsDB.
Director-General; Assistant Director-General, Operations; and staff
London, England.
Meetings with commercial banks and portfolio managers.
Assistant Director-General, Finance and staff
November
Khartoum, the Sudan.
Fifty-first meeting of the Coordination Group of Arab/OPEC/Islamic Aid Development Institutions.
Assistant Director-General, Operations and staff
Kigali, Rwanda.
Round Table meeting of development partners.
Staff
Cairo, Egypt.
Private sector appraisal mission.
Staff
Paris, France.
Sixty-sixth meeting of the Ministers of the G-24.
Director-General and Director, Information and Economic Services
Ottawa, Canada.
Sixty-fourth Meeting of the Development Committee (Joint Ministerial Committee of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank and the IMF on the Transfer of Real Resources to Developing Countries).
Director-General
Paris, France.
Visit to PROPARCO to discuss pipeline private sector projects.
Staff
Niamey, Niger.
Public sector country visit.
Staff
Rabat, Morocco; Tunis, Tunisia.
Meeting with government ministers.
Director-General and Assistant Director-General, Operations
December
Berlin, Germany.
13th Governing Council of the CFC.
General Counsel
Frankfurt, Germany.
Meeting with Deutsche Asset Management.
Director-General and Assistant Director-General, Finance
Geneva, Switzerland.
UNDP Round Table Conference on Burundi.
Staff
Porlamar, Margarita Island, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Third Summit of Heads of State and Government of the States and Territories of the Association of Caribbean States.
Director-General; Assistant Director-General, Operations; and staff
Boston, New York, San Diego, Los Angeles, USA.
Meeting with portfolio managers.
Assistant Director-General, Finance and staff
Washington, D.C., USA.
7th Session of the Joint Action Forum of the African Program for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) and the 22nd Session of the Joint Program Committee of the Onchocerciasis Program (OCP).
Director-General and staff
Washington, D.C., USA.
Consultative Group meeting for Mauritania.
Staff