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Mr. Harper goes to Amritsar: The PM's Asia itinerary

by DavidAkin on Wed 11 Nov 2009 07:34 PM EST | Permanent Link | Cosmos

I will be off on a very long plane ride beginning at 11 a.m. Thursday morning to cover Prime Minister Harper's visit to Singapore, Mumbai, New Delhi and Amritsar. If you'd like to play along -- and I hope to be tweeting (follow @davidakin or click here to get my Twitter RSS feed ) , blogging, and writing as often as I can -- here's our rough itinerary. More details coming shortly:

***All times Eastern***

THU NOV 12

1100 - DEP Ottawa

--- Flying all day with refueling stops in Anchorage, Alaska and Tokyo..

FRI NOV 13

1400 ARR Singapore at 1400
2300 APEC Summit begins at 2300

SUN NOV 14

0100 - APEC Leaders Retreat
0230 - APEC Business council meets with leaders
0500 - APEC cultural performance (2 Cdn reporters to provide pool coverage)
0700 - APEC leaders working dinner
2100 - APEC leaders retreat
2315 - APEC Communique released
TBD - DEP Singapore
TBD - ARR Mumbai, India
2300 - Harper does roundtable with Indian investors group
TBD - Harper has even with Canadian Tourism Convention
TBD - Harper tours set of Premier Dance League

MON NOV 15

0130 - Harper speech to business group
0845 - DEP Mumbai
1020 - ARR New Delhi
2230 - Harper meets Indian foreign affairs minister

TUE NOV 16

0030 - Harper meets Indian president
0330 - Harper visits Gandhi memorial
0500 - Harper meets Indian vice-president
0600 - Harper meets Sonia Gandhi
0830 - Harper meets Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
0900 - Harper-Singh joint press conference

WED NOV 17

0000 - DEP New Delhi
0115 - ARR Amritsar
0200 - Harper visits Golden Temple
TBD - DEP Amritsar
TBD - ARR - New Delhi
0645 - Harper participates infrastructure roundtable
1050 - DEP New Delhi
--- Flying all day with one refueling stop in Croatia

THU NOV 18

ARR Ottawa at approx 0700

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