Agenda

December 2018

• Presentation of credentials: five new ambassadors

  11 December 2018

• Election of Ueli Maurer as President of the Swiss Confederation for 2019

  5 December 2018

• Visit by High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet

  4 December 2018

• Opening of COP24 in Katowice

  2–3 December 2018

November 2018

• Celebration of the UNESCO inscription of avalanche risk management

  30 November 2018

• 40 years of the Federal Commission for Child and Youth Affairs

  29 November 2018

• Celebration for Jean-René Fournier, President of the Council of States

  28 November 2018

• Presentation of credentials: Brazil, Estonia, Jamaica

  27 November 2018

• Federal Council objectives for 2019 before the Council of States

  27 November 2018

• Video message to the Climate Vulnerable Forum virtual summit

  22 November 2018

• Working visit by Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz

  20 November 2018

• International Conference on Libya in Palermo

  12–13 November 2018

• Official visit to the Holy See, Swiss Guard and Istituto Svizzero

  11–12 November 2018

• Armistice centenary and Paris Peace Forum

  10–11 November 2018

• Von Wattenwyl talks

  9 November 2018

• Foreign Press Association in Switzerland

  5 November 2018

• economiesuisse conference against the self-determination initiative

  5 November 2018

• Centenary of the 1918 general strike, Swiss National Museum

  3 November 2018

October 2018

• Official visit to Romania

  31 October – 1 November 2018

• Official visit by the President of Malta, Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca

  30 October 2018

• Second Digitaltag, Zurich main station

  25 October 2018

• Lecture at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford

  25–26 October 2018

• UNCTAD World Investment Forum

  22 October 2018

• 12th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit in Brussels

  18–19 October 2018

• Presentation of credentials: Croatia and Belgium

  16 October 2018

• 17th Summit of La Francophonie in Yerevan

  10–12 October 2018

September 2018

• UN High-Level Week in New York and lecture in Philadelphia

  24–27 September 2018

• Working visit by Finnish Minister Annika Saarikko

  19 September 2018

• Working visit by Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi

  13 September 2018

• Official visit to Paris and meeting with Emmanuel Macron

  11–12 September 2018

• Opening of the Images Vevey festival

  8 September 2018

• National Conference against Poverty

  7 September 2018

• Meeting of the heads of state of the German-speaking countries

  5–6 September 2018

• Meeting of health ministers of the German-speaking countries

  2–3 September 2018

August 2018

• 75 years of the Swiss Working Group for Mountain Regions

  30 August 2018

• Presentation of credentials

  29 August 2018

• Presidential visit to Lebanon

  26–28 August 2018

• 38th Federal Hornussen Festival

  25 August 2018

• Ambassadors’ Conference

  21 August 2018

• Echallens Wheat and Bread Festival

  16 August 2018

• 115th National Horse Fair (Marché-Concours)

  12 August 2018

• National Day at the Rütli and 1 August addresses

  1 August 2018

• 71st Locarno Film Festival

  1–4 August 2018

July 2018

• Eve of the National Day: Oberer Euschels alp and Belfaux

  31 July 2018

• Official visit to Kenya

  8–10 July 2018

• Federal Council outing to the canton of Fribourg

  5–6 July 2018

• Official visit by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

  2–3 July 2018

• Federal Drum and Fife Festival

  1 July 2018

June 2018

• Visit to the International Olympic Committee

  29 June 2018

• Diplomatic corps excursion to the canton of Fribourg

  27 June 2018

• 100 years of Suva

  26 June 2018

• Visit to Luxembourg: Xavier Bettel

  24–25 June 2018

• Visit of Pope Francis to Geneva

  21 June 2018

• Meeting with Slovenian President Borut Pahor

  20 June 2018

• Presentation of credentials

  19 June 2018

• FIFA World Cup: Brazil–Switzerland in Rostov

  16–18 June 2018

• Swiss Design Awards 2018

  12 June 2018

• Reception for the Swiss ice hockey team, world vice-champions

  11 June 2018

• Opening of the 20th Swiss Economic Forum

  7 June 2018

May 2018

• Meeting with Liviu Dragnea, President of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies

  30 May 2018

• First Dialogue Prize of the Jews of Switzerland

  29 May 2018

• 16th Architecture Biennale: Swiss pavilion and Baukultur

  25–26 May 2018

• Swiss Theatre Awards 2018

  24 May 2018

• Official visit by the President of Benin, Patrice Talon

  22 May 2018

• Opening of the 71st World Health Assembly and 70 years of the WHO

  21 May 2018

• Meeting with Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, High Commissioner for Human Rights

  15 May 2018

• State visit to Latvia in its centenary year

  13–14 May 2018

• 71st Cannes Film Festival

  11 May 2018

• International Geneva: UN, UNHCR and WHO

  8 May 2018

• Message for the Council of Europe’s Europe Day

  5 May 2018

• Von Wattenwyl talks: cybersecurity and relations with the EU

  4 May 2018

April 2018

• Speech at the Europa Forum Lucerne

  30 April 2018

• Annual meeting of the Global Leadership Foundation

  27 April 2018

• State visit by German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier

  25–26 April 2018

• Official visit to Japan and Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety

  12–15 April 2018

• Presentation of credentials

  10 April 2018

• Art Paris: Switzerland as guest of honour

  4 April 2018

March 2018

• Federal Council meeting extra muros in St. Gallen

  28 March 2018

• Visit by Bulgarian Vice-President Iliana Iotova

  26 March 2018

• Opening of the 32nd Fribourg International Film Festival

  16 March 2018

• “Democracy put to the test of fake”: lecture at the University of Geneva

  9 March 2018

• Opening of the 16th International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights

  9 March 2018

• Visit by the Prime Minister of Bhutan, Tshering Tobgay

  8 March 2018

• Official visit to Liechtenstein

  5–6 March 2018

• Television address for the Day of the Sick

  4 March 2018

February 2018

• Official visit by the President of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi

  28 February 2018

• Visit by the Governor-General of Australia, Peter Cosgrove

  27 February 2018

• South Korea: Moon Jae-in and the PyeongChang Olympic Games

  7–11 February 2018

• First visit by a President of the Swiss Confederation to Bangladesh

  4–7 February 2018

• Von Wattenwyl talks

  2 February 2018

January 2018

• Fifth Health2020 National Conference: curbing costs

  29 January 2018

• Message for Holocaust Remembrance Day

  27 January 2018

• Meeting with Donald Trump

  26 January 2018

• Opening of the 53rd Solothurn Film Festival

  25 January 2018

• World Economic Forum: opening speech and bilateral meetings

  22–25 January 2018

• Conference of European Ministers of Culture: the Davos Declaration

  21–22 January 2018

• New Year reception for the diplomatic corps

  17 January 2018

• Presentation of credentials

  16 January 2018

• First visit abroad: Vienna

  8–9 January 2018

• New Year address

  1 January 2018