BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION 22 > 28 November 2014

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BELGIAN ECONOMIC CALENDAR 2014 MISSIONS

KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA & SULTANATE OF OMAN 14 > 21 March

COLOMBIA & PERU 18 > 25 October

MALAYSIA & SINGAPORE 22 > 28 November

CALENDAR 2015

QATAR & UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 21 – 26 March

nd BRAZIL 2 half of May

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HRH PRINCESS ASTRID OF

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HRH Princess Astrid, Princess of Belgium The Princess is also active in the fight against Since 22 November 1996, HRH Princess was born in Brussels on 5 June 1962. She is epidemics and pandemics: i.e. as “Special Astrid has been a member of the Belgian the second child of King Albert II and Queen Representative” of the Roll Back Malaria as senator by right. She also joined Paola, and the sister of the King. partnership to fight malaria. the Belgian Armed Forces on 22 May 1997. The Princess is a Colonel in the Medical Unit. At the request of His Majesty the King, HRH HRH Princess Astrid is also particularly con- Princess Astrid represented him and pre- cerned by the plight of victims of violence. HRH Princess Astrid performs her public sided over the economic missions to Angola She is therefore fully engaged in the efforts duties as expected within the context of the and South Africa in October 2013, to India to ban antipersonnel mines. Royal Family with particular interest for the in November 2013, to the Kingdom of Saudi problems of our contemporary society. Arabia and the Sultanate of Oman in March HRH Princess Astrid is also a member of 2014 and to Colombia and Peru in October the International Paralympics Committee HRH Princess Astrid studied art history at 2014. It is widely recognised that missions Honorary Board. She is also the Honorary Leiden in the Netherlands. She completed such as these have a positive impact on the President of the non-profit association her education in Geneva, at the Institute development of economic and trade relations Damien Action. of European Studies and in Michigan in the between Belgium and its regions and many United States. overseas partners. They also enable bridges HRH Princess Astrid is known to be highly to be built between Belgian and foreign com- concerned about persons who - through a On 22 September 1984, HRH Princess panies as well as between Belgian compa- variety of circumstances - become margin- Astrid married in Brussels Lorenz, Arch- nies themselves. alised citizens. She visits and encourages in Duke d’Autriche-Este, who became Prince many ways those Organisations which offer of Belgium in 1995. The Prince was born in As Honorary Chairwoman of the Queen assistance to those who are in need of help. Boulogne-Billancourt on 16 December 1955. Elisabeth Medical Foundation (QEMF)