Australia’s Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd is due to visit Greece on February 1st. This will be the first visit by an Australian Foreign Minister to Greece since 1997, when Alexander Downer visited Athens.
Rudd, who formerly served as Australia’s Prime Minister, will hold talks with Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas on bilateral relations, global security, fighting terrorism, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the economic crisis.
He will also have a meeting with Prime Minister George Papandreou.
Apart from Greece, Rudd will visit a number of countries in order to drum up support for Australia’s bid for a place on the United Nations Security Council. He will attend a summit of the 53 African Union member-states in Ethiopia, visit Ankara and Switzerland, where he will attend the World Economic Forum in Davos.
(source: ana-mpa)
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