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UN chief to travel to Luxembourg, France

Xinhua, June 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon is scheduled to leave New York on Sunday for Luxembourg to participate in a meeting of the European Union before he travels to France to address the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Farhan Haq, the deputy UN spokesman, told reporters here Thursday at a daily news briefing.

While in Luxembourg, the secretary-general will also have an audience with His Royal Highness Grand Duke Henri and meet with Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, as well as with other government officials, he said.

In Strasbourg, Ban will meet with the secretary-general of the Council of Europe, Thorbjorn Jagland, the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council, Anne Brasseur, and the minister of foreign affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina and president of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Igor Crnadak, Haq said.

The secretary-general will return to New York on June 23, Haq said. Endite