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The minister's meetings and trips in 2021

1

January

  • 13.1 Cour­tesy meet­ing with the non-gov­ern­men­tal organ­i­sa­tion Care in Luxembourg”
2

February

  • 3.2 Inau­gu­ra­tion of Fri­go-Sol­idaire” with the non-gov­ern­men­tal organ­i­sa­tion Frères des Hommes” in Bonnevoie
  • 3.2 Cer­e­mo­ny for the sign­ing of frame­work agree­ments with 5 NGDOs
  • 12.2 Vir­tu­al dis­cus­sion with B Med­ical Systems
3

March

  • 1.3 Launch of the 2021 edi­tion of the Busi­ness Part­ner­ship Facil­i­ty (BPF) (video-con­fer­ence)
  • 15.3 For­eign and Euro­pean Affairs Council 
  • 17.3UN Com­mis­sion on the Sta­tus of Women, CSW: 65th Ses­sion — the Edu­ca­tion Plus Initiative
  • 31.3 Launch of SATMED2.0, sign­ing of the 2021 – 2024 contract
4

April

  • 6.4 Financ­ing for Devel­op­ment, high-lev­el dia­logue on financ­ing for devel­op­ment: spe­cial seg­ment on financ­ing the recov­ery from COVID-19 (pre-record­ed presentation)
  • 12.4 Dis­cus­sion with B Med­ical Systems
  • 20.4 Cour­tesy vis­it by Nor­ma Estenoz, Cuba’s Ambas­sador to Luxembourg
  • 22.4 Press con­fer­ence with the non-gov­ern­men­tal organ­i­sa­tions Caritas 
    and Fair­trade as part of the Rethink your clothes II” aware­ness-rais­ing cam­paign in com­mem­o­ra­tion of the col­lapse of the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh
  • 22.4 Cour­tesy vis­it by Hirut Zemene Kas­sa, Ambas­sador of the Fed­er­al Demo­c­ra­t­ic Repub­lic of Ethiopia to Luxembourg
  • 29.4DAC — Devel­op­ment infor­mal meet­ing (video-con­fer­ence)
5

May

  • 5.5 Inau­gu­ra­tion of the new Third World Infor­ma­tion Cen­tre (CITIM) run by the non-gov­ern­men­tal organ­i­sa­tion Action Sol­i­dar­ité Tiers Monde Asbl” (ASTM)
  • 18.52021 Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion Sessions
  • 19.5 Work­ing vis­it to Lux­em­bourg by Mohamed Bazoum, Pres­i­dent of the Repub­lic of Niger
6

June

  • 1.6 Work­ing vis­it by Min­is­ter Franz Fay­ot to the Unit­ed Arab Emirates
  • 8.6 Work­ing vis­it by Min­is­ter Franz Fay­ot to Geneva
  • 14.6DAC — Devel­op­ment infor­mal meet­ing (video-con­fer­ence)
  • 15.6 Diplo­mat­ic conference
  • 24.6 Work­ing vis­it by Min­is­ter Franz Fay­ot to Rome
  • 28.6 Work­ing vis­it by Min­is­ter Franz Fay­ot to LuxDev S.A. Luxembourg
  • 29.6 Work­ing vis­it to Lux­em­bourg by Donika Gër­val­la, Koso­van Min­is­ter of For­eign Affairs
7

July

  • 1.7 Vir­tu­al dis­cus­sion on the 13th part­ner­ship com­mit­tee meet­ing between Burk­i­na Faso and Luxembourg
  • 6.7 Bilat­er­al dis­cus­sion with Win­nie Byany­i­ma, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of UNAIDS, the joint Unit­ed Nations pro­gramme on HIV/AIDS
  • 7.7 Vir­tu­al dis­cus­sion on the sign­ing of strate­gic part­ner­ship agree­ments between Cabo Verde and Luxembourg
  • 8.7 Vir­tu­al dis­cus­sion on the 13th part­ner­ship com­mit­tee meet­ing between Laos and Luxembourg
  • 9.7 Work­ing vis­it by Min­is­ter Franz Fay­ot to New York
  • 19.7 Com­mit­tee on For­eign and Euro­pean Affairs, Coop­er­a­tion, Immi­gra­tion and Asy­lum: Pre­sen­ta­tion by Franz Fay­ot of the Annu­al Report on Coop­er­a­tion and Human­i­tar­i­an Action, indica­tive coop­er­a­tion pro­grammes with Niger and Laos, and the Gen­der”, Environment/​Climate Change” and Inclu­sive Finance” strategies
  • 21.7 Vir­tu­al dis­cus­sion with the Cer­cle de Coopération
  • 2829.7 Par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Glob­al Edu­ca­tion Sum­mit: Financ­ing GPE2021 – 2025 (pre-record­ed message)
9

September

  • 5.9 Inau­gu­ra­tion of the com­mem­o­ra­tive plaque for the 1st syn­a­gogue in Lux­em­bourg at the Hôtel Saint-Augustin, 6 rue de la Con­gré­ga­tion, Luxembourg
  • 8.9 Dis­cus­sion with Alain Délétroz, Direc­tor Gen­er­al of Gene­va Call
  • 9.9 Par­tic­i­pa­tion in the 14th Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence on Migra­tion and Devel­op­ment, co-organ­ised by the Lux­em­bourg Insti­tute of Socio-Eco­nom­ic Research (LIS­ER), Uni​.lu, the French Devel­op­ment Agency (AFD) and the World Bank (WB)
  • 13.9UN High-lev­el Min­is­te­r­i­al Meet­ing on the Human­i­tar­i­an Sit­u­a­tion in Afghanistan 2021 (pre-record­ed message)
  • 13.9 Work­ing vis­it by Min­is­ter Franz Fay­ot to Jordan
  • 20.9 Inau­gu­ra­tion of the Lëtz’ReFashion” Cen­tre as part of the Rethink your clothes II” aware­ness-rais­ing cam­paign with the non-gov­ern­men­tal organ­i­sa­tion Car­i­tas Luxembourg
  • 22.9 Dis­cus­sion with Ben­jamin Püt­ter, part­ner at the non-gov­ern­men­tal organ­i­sa­tion Aide à l’Enfance de l’Inde et du Népal
  • 22.9 Offi­cial open­ing of the Man­groves” exhi­bi­tion organ­ised by the non-gov­ern­men­tal organ­i­sa­tions Friend­ship Lux­em­bourg” and Friend­ship Colours of the Chars Luxembourg”
  • 23.9 Par­tic­i­pa­tion in the UN Gen­er­al Assem­bly, Event on Women, Health and Gen­der Equal­i­ty (pre-record­ed message)
10

October

  • 2.10 Par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Shoe Pyra­mid Day organ­ised by the non-gov­ern­men­tal organ­i­sa­tion Hand­i­cap Inter­na­tion­al Luxembourg”
  • 7.10ILO Glob­al Flag­ship Pro­gramme on Build­ing Social Pro­tec­tion Floors for All – Phase II: Achiev­ing Uni­ver­sal Social Pro­tec­tion 2021 – 2025 (pre-record­ed message)
  • 7.10 Dis­cus­sion with Chris­tos Chris­tou, Inter­na­tion­al Pres­i­dent of Médecins Sans Fron­tières, in the con­text of its 50th anniversary
  • 11.10 Video-con­fer­ence for the min­is­ters respon­si­ble for devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion con­cern­ing Afghanistan
  • 14.10 Press con­fer­ence: Pre­sen­ta­tion of the Fair­trade uni­forms for the POST as part of the Rethink your clothes II” aware­ness-rais­ing campaign
  • 15.10 Dis­cus­sion with Alfred Han­nig, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Alliance for Finan­cial Inclu­sion (AFI)
  • 18.10 The Inter­na­tion­al Fed­er­a­tion of Red Cross and Red Cres­cent Soci­eties (IFRC)’s Dis­as­ter Relief Emer­gency Fund (DREF) Pledg­ing Con­fer­ence (pre-record­ed message)
  • 18.10 African Micro­fi­nance Week in Kigali, Rwanda
  • 27.10 Vir­tu­al dis­cus­sion with MOPAN (Mul­ti­lat­er­al Organ­i­sa­tion Per­for­mance Assess­ment Net­work), as part of the High-Lev­el Round­table: Pulling togeth­er: the Mul­ti­lat­er­al Response to Cli­mate Change”.
  • 27.10 Dis­cus­sion in Lux­em­bourg with Las­sané Kaboré, Burk­i­na Faso’s Min­is­ter of Econ­o­my, Finance and Development
  • 28.10 Sign­ing of a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing between the Film Fund Lux­em­bourg (FFL) and the Direc­torate for Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion and Human­i­tar­i­an Affairs, in the Min­istry of For­eign and Euro­pean Affairs
  • 28.10 Bilat­er­al dis­cus­sion with Mohammed Shtayyeh, Prime Min­is­ter and Min­is­ter of the Inte­ri­or of the State of Pales­tine, and Riad Mal­ki, Min­is­ter of For­eign Affairs of the State of Palestine
11

November

  • 1.11 Work­ing vis­it by Min­is­ter Franz Fay­ot to Senegal
  • 8.11 Dona­tion of 50 vac­cine refrig­er­a­tors to Burk­i­na Faso to help com­bat COVID-19 (dis­patch of the refrig­er­a­tors by mil­i­tary air­craft A400M)
  • 9.11 Dis­cus­sion with Fil­ip­po Gran­di, Unit­ed Nations High Com­mis­sion­er for Refugees
  • 17.11 Euro­pean Micro­fi­nance Award 2021
  • 17.11 State­ment to the Cham­ber of Deputies on devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion policy
  • 24.11 Vir­tu­al dis­cus­sion with Min­is­ter Mazames­so Assih, Togo’s Min­is­ter of Finan­cial Inclusion
12

December

  • 69.12Sign­ing of strate­gic part­ner­ship agree­ments with Unit­ed Nations agen­cies UNF­PA and UNICEF and annu­al con­sul­ta­tions in New York
  • 15.12 Sign­ing of the 2022 – 2025 agree­ment between the non-gov­ern­men­tal organ­i­sa­tion ADA (Appui au Développe­ment Autonome) and the Direc­torate for Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion and Human­i­tar­i­an Affairs, in 
    the Min­istry of For­eign and Euro­pean Affairs
  • 17.12 Cer­e­mo­ny for the sign­ing of the 2022 – 2024 agree­ment with the Finan­cial Tech­nol­o­gy Trans­fer Agency (ATTF)/House of Train­ing and the State of the Grand Duchy of Lux­em­bourg, rep­re­sent­ed by Min­is­ter Franz Fayot