Brussels, 19/11/2008 (Agence Europe) - EU High Representative for the CFSP Javier Solana arrived in the United States on Wednesday 19 November 2008 for a three week official visit. On Thursday 20 November, he will meet US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington and Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon in New York. Solana's visit does not include any official meetings with members of President-elect Barack Obama's transition team, but members of Solana's team say that informal meetings with his advisors have not been ruled out, particularly on the fringes of a conference on global insecurity at the Brookings Institution in Washington on Thursday, where former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, one of Obama's close advisors, will be speaking. Solana will attend the conference. (H.B./transl.fl)