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DIARY-Political and General News Events from Feb 21

Published 22/02/2018, 12:44 am
Updated 22/02/2018, 12:50 am
DIARY-Political and General News Events from Feb 21

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21

** BERLIN - Macedonia Prime Minister Zoran Zaev will meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. ** BRUSSELS - Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian will pay a working visit to Belgium. ** KIEV - Denmark Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen will pay a working visit to Ukraine (to Feb 22). ** BELGRADE - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visits Serbia.

** SOFIA - Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir will meet Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and President Rumen Radev during a one-day visit.

** BRASILIA - Colombia Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin meets Brazil Foreign Minister Aloysio Nunes Ferreira - 1630 GMT.

LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May will meet Dutch Prime Minister Mark Ruttee for a bilateral meeting in Downing Street.

LJUBLJANA - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visits Slovenia and meets Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec - 0930 GMT.

CAPE TOWN - South Africa Finance Minister presents the 2018 budget - 1200 GMT.

MADRID - Spanish Economy Minister De Guindos to meet Finland Finance Minister Petteri Orpo in Madrid - 1300 GMT.

PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron meets new Liberian president George Weah at the Elysee palace in Paris.

MOSCOW - Pakistan Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif is on a four-day official visit to Russia (to Feb 22).

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NEW DELHI - Bhutan Foreign Minister Lyonpo Damcho Dorji is on a three-day visit to India (to Feb 22). GENEVA, Switzerland - United Nations Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, Twentieth Session (to Feb 23).

HYDERABAD - The Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe will participate in the World Congress on Information Technology (Final Day).

GENEVA - United Nations Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions, Thirty-first annual meeting (to Feb 23). BERLIN - 68th Berlin International Film Festival (to Feb. 25).

PYEONGCHANG - 2018 Winter European Youth Olympic Festival (to Feb. 24).

NEW DELHI - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits India (to Feb. 23).

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22 ** TOKYO - Chile President Michelle Bachelet visits Japan.

** TOKYO - Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono will hold talks with his Mongolian counterpart Damdin Tsogtbaatar in Japan.

ANKARA - Algerian Foreign Minister Abdelkader Messahel visits Turkey (to Feb. 23).

MADRID - Spanish Economy Minister De Guindos to meet Argentinian Finance Minister Nicolas Dujovne in Madrid - 0800 GMT.

ATHENS - Ireland President Michael Higgins will pay an official visit to Greece (to Feb. 23). BRUSSELS - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker speaks at the Centre for European Policy Studies - 1200 GMT.

KIEV - Albania Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati visits Ukraine (to Feb. 23).

LONDON - The BRIT Awards 2018.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23 LJUBLJANA - Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop visits Slovenia.

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WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will speak at the White House. BRUSSELS - EU Informal meeting of the 27 heads of state or government.

DJIBOUTI - Djiboutian National Assembly election. - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24

PORT MORESBY - APEC First Senior Officials' Meeting and Related Meetings (to Mar. 9). - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25 RUSSIA - Iraq Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari will visit Moscow (to Feb. 28). MACEDONIA - President of European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker will visit Macedonia, the first stop of his Western Balkans tour aimed at presenting the EU's Western Balkans Strategy.

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26

** RABAT/ NOUAKCHOTT/ DAKAR/ BAMAKO - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan visits Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal and Mali (to March 2).

GENEVA - Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen opens an art exhibition at the United Nation - 1400 GMT.

GENEVA - United Nations Human Rights Council, 37th session (to March 23).

BRUSSELS - The EU Foreign Affairs Council meets in Brussels. - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 NEW YORK - United Nations Economic and Social Council, Substantive session, operational activities for development segment (to March 1). BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28

SINGAPORE - 24th ASEAN Economic Ministers' Retreat (AEM-R) and 16th AEMEU Trade Commissioner Consultations (to March 2).

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- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MARCH 4 PAPUA NEW GUINEA - APEC (EC) Economic Committee Meeting (to Mar 5).

ITALY - Election for Italian Chamber of Deputies. ITALY - Election for Italian Senate. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MARCH 5 GENEVA - United Nations Human Rights Committee, pre-sessional Working Group on Communications, 122nd session (to Mar 9). REPUBLIC OF KOREA - ASEAN+3 Taskforce Meeting (Finance) (to March 6).

KIEV - Finland Foreign Affairs Minister Timo Soini is scheduled to visit Ukraine (to March 6). - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MARCH 6

** WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump will welcome Sweden Prime Minister Stefan Lofven to the White House. - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 PAPUA NEW GUINEA - SOM First Senior Officials' Meeting (to March 8).

- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MARCH 8 BRUSSELS - The European Union Justice and Home Affairs Council (to March 9).

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SUNDAY, MARCH 11 CUBA - Election Cuban National Assembly of People's Power. - - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, MARCH 12 GENEVA - United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, sixty third session (to March 29). GENEVA - United Nations Human Rights Committee, 122nd session (to April 6). BRUSSELS - Eurogroup meeting. - - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, MARCH 13 BRUSSELS - The European Union Economic and Financial Affairs Council meets.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 15 BRUSSELS - The European Union Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council on social policy meeting.

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ASTANA - Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Turkish and Iranian counterparts, Mevlut Cavusoglu and Mohammad Javad Zarif, meet in the Kazakh capital city of Astana.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 17 SYDNEY - ASEAN-Australia Special Summit (to March 18).

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SUNDAY, MARCH 18 SINGAPORE - ASEAN 24th Meeting of Senior Officials Committee for the ASCC (SOCA) (to March 22). - - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, MARCH 19 GENEVA - United Nations Human Rights Council, Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, Twenty-second session (to March 23). BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 20 BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 22 INDONESIA - 2nd Meeting of the Senior Economic Officials for the 49th ASEAN Economic Ministers' Meeting (SEOM 2/49) and Related Meetings (to March 29 BRUSSELS - European Council meeting (to Mar 23). - - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, MARCH 26 VARNA, Bulgaria - EU-Turkey leaders' meeting in Varna (Bulgaria). - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28 NEW YORK - United Nations High-level International Conference on Nuclear Disarmament, Organizational session.

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