Colombian President Alvaro Uribe set off to the United States Monday to attend the annual meeting of the United Nation’s General Assembly and a large number of meetings with other Heads of State.
The President will meet with European Commission chairman Jose Manuel Durao Barroso and the Presidents of the United Arab Emirates, Panama, Poland and Bosnia.
Also scheduled are meetings with Juan Somavia, President of the International Labor Organization, Javier Solana, High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU and Navi Pillay, the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Uribe will be accompanied in New York by Foreign Minister Jaime Bermudez and the ambassadors to Washington and the UN, Carolina Barco and Claudia Blum.
