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Annex I
Activities of the Secretary-General in Davos (29 January- 1 February 1999)

Friday, 29th PM
  Arrival
  Meeting with senior UN officials: Arlacchi, Bellamy, Ogata, Robinson, Somavia
Saturday, 30th
8:30 AM Breakfast with H.E. Mr. Flavio Cotti, Foreign Minister of Switzerland, with Swiss business leaders
9:30 AM H.E. Mrs. Ruth Deifruss, President of Switzerland
10:00 H.E. Yevgeny M. Primakov, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
12:30 Klaus Schwab, President of the World Economic Forum
3:00 H.E. Mr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, President of the Republic of South Africa
4:00 Philanthropists Private Meeting, organized by Tim Wirth, UNFIP. To include Ted Turner, George Soros, Erich Hunziker, Teresa Heinz, Pierre Landolt, Alan Parker, Stephan Schmidheiny. Also, possibly attending: Bill Gates, Nicolas Hayek, Robert and Thomas Pritzker. To be chaired by Mr. Göran Lindahl, President and CEO of Asia Brown Boveri, Ltd.
4:30 H.E. Dr. Janez Drnovsek, Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia
4:45 H.E. Mr. Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister of Norway
6:30 President of Egypt, H.E. Mr. Hosni Mubarak, and Foreign Minister of Egypt, Amr Moussa Press encounter-Egyptian TV
Sunday, 31st
8:30 Press Breakfast
9:30 H.E. Dr. Kamal Kharrazi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran
10:00 Mr. Fernando de la Rua, Mayor of Buenos Aires and Presidential candidate
11:00 Belgian Senator, Alain Destexhe
11:30 Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, Senior Minister of the Republic of Singapore
4:30 Mr. Göran Lindalh, President and CEO, Asian Brown Boveri, Ltd.
5:00 Keynote speaker at session entitled "Global Politics for a Global Economy"
7:00 Yassir Arafat, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
8:30 Dinner hosted by forum
Monday, 1st
  Departed Davos for New York