UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon is to leave the UN headquarters on Tuesday to start a seven- nation trip to Europe and Africa, UN spokesperson Michele Montas said.
During the visit, his first major official travel abroad, Ban is scheduled to attend an African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and a meeting in Paris on Lebanese reconstruction.
In Europe, Ban has meetings scheduled with European Union, European Parliament and European Commission officials in Brussels as well as senior representatives of NATO and the Belgian government.
During his visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he will meet with President Joseph Kabila and other senior government officials, address the National Assembly, and meet with peacekeepers and staff of the UN's largest mission. He will also pay a brief visit to Brazzaville to meet with President Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of Congo.
Then the secretary-general travels to Addis Ababa for the AU Summit where he will address the opening session and hold discussions with AU leaders on Darfur and Somalia.
He ends his Africa visit with a stop in Nairobi, where he will meet with the Kenyan president and the staff of the UN headquarters on the continent.
From Kenya, the secretary-general travels to the Netherlands, where he will visit the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague.
From The Hague, he flies to Washington, D.C. for a meeting of the Middle East Quartet, scheduled on Feb. 2.
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