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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22 ** TOKYO - Chile President Michelle Bachelet Jeria will pay an official working visit to Japan (to Feb. 26)
** KIGALI - Zambia President Edgar Lungu arrived in Rwanda on a two-day state visit. (Final Day). ** TOKYO - Japanese Trade and Industry Minister Hiroshige Seko and Russian Economy Minister Maxim Oreshkin will hold talks in a "high-level working-group" meeting to discuss progress in bilateral economic cooperation.
** BELGRADE - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visits Serbia to meet Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic - 0900 GMT.
** BUDAPEST - Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop visits Hungary, holds press conference with Hungarian counterpart Peter Szijjarto - 0930 GMT.
** BRUSSELS - Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic meets with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg - 1500 GMT.
** BRASILIA - Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano meets Brazil Foreign Minister Aloysio Nunes Ferreira - 1500 GMT.
** SARAJEVO - Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl visits Bosnia and meets Bosnia Foreign Minister Igor Crnadak - 1600 GMT.
** BRUSSELS - Belgian Prime Minister hosts several EU leaders ahead of summit - 1930 GMT.
** WASHINGTON - U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell meets with Australian Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull at the Federal Reserve - 2000 GMT.
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.
KIEV - Denmark Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen will pay a working visit to Ukraine (Final Day).
MOSCOW - Pakistan Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif is on a four-day official visit to Russia (Final Day).
NEW DELHI - Bhutan Foreign Minister Lyonpo Damcho Dorji is on a three-day visit to India (Final Day). GENEVA, Switzerland - United Nations Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, Twentieth Session (to Feb 23).
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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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23 ** NEW DELHI - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in New Delhi. ** NEW DELHI - Saudi Arabia Oil Minister Khalid A Al-Falih arrives in India to negotiate oil rates with one of the biggest importers of oil products.
** BRUSSELS - European Commissioner President Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk hold a news conference after the European Union heads of state and government meet for an informal summit in Brussels - 1700 GMT.
LJUBLJANA - Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop visits Slovenia.
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 ** BEIRUT - Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi is scheduled to depart for Lebanon to meet the Indonesian peacekeeping troops, the Garuda Contingent of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) (to Feb 26). 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
** BELGRADE - EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker visits Serbia.
** SANTIAGO - OECD Economic Surveys: Chile. 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 meeting 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
** HELSINKI - OECD Economics Survey: Finland
** BRASILIA - OECD Economic Survey: Brazil SINGAPORE - 24th ASEAN Economic Ministers' Retreat (AEM-R) and 16th AEMEU Trade Commissioner Consultations (to March 2).
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ITALY - Election for Italian Chamber of Deputies. ITALY - Election for Italian Senate. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MARCH 5 ** WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold talks at the White House.
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).
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** DUBLIN - OECD Economic Survey: Ireland 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 meeting.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 15 ** SOFIA - Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz will meet Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov during a one-day visit to Bulgaria.
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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