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-------------------------------------------------------------------- This diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events-------------------------------------------------------------------- THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29
** PHNOM PENH - Liechtenstein Minister of Foreign Affairs, Education and Sports Dominique Hasler will pay an official visit to Cambodia. (To Mar. 2)
** TIRANA - EU-Western Balkans summit in Albania. It will be attended by Balkans leaders and European Commissioner for enlargement Oliver Varhelyi. Agenda for the summit is energy, economy and customs. – 0800 GMT
** GEORGETOWN - Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali will give statements at the start of bilateral talks between their countries in Georgetown. – 1230 GMT VIENTIANE - Timor-Leste's President Jose Ramos-Horta is on a state visit to Laos. (To Mar. 2)
RABAT - Minister of Defence of Romania Angel Tilvar is paying an official visit to the Kingdom of Morocco. (To Feb. 29)
BAGHDAD - President of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturyan will be on an official visit to the Republic of Iraq. (To Feb. 29)
KUALA LUMPUR - Uzbekistan’s Foreign Affairs Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov will undertake an official visit to Malaysia. (To Feb. 29) BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council (Trade) (To Feb. 29)
GENEVA, Switzerland - Geneva International Motor Show (to Mar. 3) GENEVA, Switzerland - 55th session of the Human Rights Council. (To Apr. 5)
ISTANBUL - Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek visit Brazil for the G20 meeting. (To March 01)
BEIJING - At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone Julius Maada Bio will pay a state visit to China. (To March 2) CALGARY, Canada - Special Olympics Canada 2024 Winter Games (to Mar. 2) BERLIN - Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov will meet in Berlin. (To Feb. 29)
MANILA - Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr visits Australia. (To Feb 29) TIRANA - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will visit Albania where will have bilateral meetings with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and he will also take part in an EU summit that will be held in Tirana. (To Feb 29)
SAO PAULO - G20 finance ministers meet in Sao Paulo to prepare for the annual presidential summit in November in Rio de Janeiro. (To Feb. 29) WARSAW - Latvia's Prime Minister Evika Silina in Poland for a meeting with Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The two will hold a joint press conference – 1130 GMT.
SAO PAULO - Press conference at the sidelines of the G20 meeting with German Finance Minister Christian Lindner and Bundesbank head Joachim Nagel. - 1300 GMT
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** SANTIAGO - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visits Chile. (To March 02) ANKARA - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Turkey. (To Mar. 2)
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden welcomes Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to White House. ROME - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is set to go to Rome, Italy, to meet with Italian President Sergio Mattarella – 1600 GMT.
IRAN - Iranian Islamic Consultative Assembly Election.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, MARCH 2VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis meets German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, at the Vatican – 1000 GMT.
OTTAWA - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will visit Toronto, Canada.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MARCH 3GLOBAL - International Day for Ear and Hearing.
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** SYDNEY - Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr addresses the Sydney Lowy Institute while on an official visit to Australia. – 0630 GMT MELBOURNE - Foreign minister of Australia Penny Wong and her Philippine counterpart Enrique Manalo give keynote addresses at a maritime academic conference on the sidelines of the Australia-ASEAN Summit.
BRUSSELS - EU Justice and Home Affairs Council. (To Mar. 5)
MELBOURNE, Australia - ASEAN-Australia Special Summit to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of ASEAN-Australia Dialogue Relations. (To Mar. 6)
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MARCH 5SEOUL - Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar to visit Republic of Korea. (To March 06) PRAGUE - French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Prague. MOSCOW – 71st death anniversary of Soviet leader Josef Stalin. TOKYO - Japan's Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Masato Kanda speaks at a panel discussion at an international symposium in Tokyo hosted by the Institute for International Monetary Affairs – 0500 GMT
LUANG PRABANG, Laos - ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting +1 Informal Meeting. (To Mar. 7)
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 06MELBOURNE - Co-Chairs of the ASEAN Special Summit Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Prime Minister of Laos Sonexay Siphandone hold a joint news conference – 0500 GMT.
TOKYO - Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar to visit Japan. (To March 08) LONDON - British finance minister Jeremy Hunt delivers his annual budget to parliament. – 1230 GMT
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** CANBERRA - Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to deliver a speech at Australia National University (ANU) on Malaysia and Australia's Pivotal Role in the Asia Pacific. LUANG PRABANG, Laos - The 30th ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Retreat Meeting. (To Mar. 8)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MARCH 8WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. – 0200 GMT GLOBAL - International Women's Day.
IRELAND - Referendum Election.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MARCH 10TIBET – 65th anniversary of Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, fleeing into exile after a failed uprising.
PORTUGAL - Portuguese Assembly of the Republic Election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MARCH 11SENDAI, Japan – 13th anniversary of Sendai earthquake and tsunami. BRUSSELS – Eurogroup Meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MARCH 12MEXICO CITY - Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia to visit Mexico. (To March 14) WASHINGTON DC - Polish president Andrzej Duda and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will meet with U.S. President Joe Biden at White House. TOKYO - Japan's Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Masato Kanda gives opening remarks and appears a panel discussion at an international symposium in Tokyo hosted by Genron NPO - 0400 GMT. BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MARCH 14TOKYO - Japan's Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Masato Kanda joins a panel discussion during the "Tokyo Roundtable on Capital Market and Financial Reform in Asia" hosted by OECD and Asian Development Bank Institute. – 0100 GMT
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MARCH 15DUBLIN, Ireland - St. Patrick's Festival (to Mar. 18). GLOBAL - World Day of Action against Seal Hunting.
DAMASCUS - Syria marks the 13th anniversary of an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
RUSSIAN FEDERATION - Russian Presidency Election. (To Mar. 17)
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, MARCH 16HALABJA, Iraq – 36th anniversary of 5,000 civilian Kurds being killed in Iraqi chemical weapons attack.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MARCH 17ITALY - Anniversary of the unification of Italy. MALDIVES - Maldivian People's Council Election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MARCH 18BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MARCH 19EGYPT – 13th anniversary of Egyptian referendum on constitutional reforms.
BERLIN - EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen discusses the topic "Is Europe being left behind?" at the EUROPE 2024 media summit – 0910 GMT.
BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20BERLIN - German Economy Minister Robert Habeck discusses European competitiveness at a German media summit called EUROPE 2024. – 1630 GMT BRUSSELS – EU Tripartite Social Summit.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MARCH 21BRUSSELS - European Council (To Mar. 22)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MARCH 22GLOBAL - World Water Day.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, MARCH 23SLOVAKIA - Slovakian Presidency election. GLOBAL - World Meteorological Day.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MARCH 24GLOBAL - World Tuberculosis Day.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MARCH 29DUBAI - HORSE RACING - 2024 Dubai World Cup.
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** GLOBAL - World Autism Awareness Day
** BUENOS AIRES - Argentina marks 42nd anniversary of start of Falklands war. LUANG PRABANG, Laos - 11th ASEAN Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting (11th AFMGM) (To Apr. 5)
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** GLOBAL - International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action.
** KUWAIT - Kuwaiti National Assembly Election.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 7** GLOBAL - World Health Organisation observes World Health Day.
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** WASHINGTON/MOSCOW – 13th anniversary of signing a bilateral treaty between Russia and the United States on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, START-2 (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty).
** GLOBAL - International Roma Nation Day.
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** SMOLENSK, Russia/CRACOW, Poland - 14th Anniversary of the Smolensk Tragedy to be held in Smolensk, Russia, as well as in Poland. SOUTH KOREA - South Korean National Assembly Election. WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Joe Biden welcomes Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for a state visit.
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** FRANCE – 13th Anniversary of the French law banning the burqa and niqab.
** ABIDJAN – 13th anniversary of the arrest of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo by supporters of president-elect Alassane Ouattara with the help of French forces, thereby ending the 2010-2011 Ivorian crisis and civil war.
** AUGUSTA, United States - U.S. Masters Golf 2024 (to Apr. 14).
LUXEMBOURG - Eurogroup Meeting.
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** GLOBAL - International Day of Human Space Flight.
** SAHARA DESERT, Morocco - Desert Marathon Des sables (to Apr 22). LUXEMBOURG – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, APRIL 13TOGO - Togolese National Assembly Election.
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** BOSTON - 2024 Boston Marathon.
** BELFAST/NEW YORK – 111th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. BRUSSELS – EU Informal meeting of energy ministers. (To Apr. 16)
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** SOLOMON ISLANDS - Solomon Islander National Parliament Election. AMSTERDAM - Queen Letizia and King Felipe VI of Spain will make a state visit to the Netherlands, at the invitation of the King of the Netherlands. (To Apr. 18)
ROME - G7 foreign ministers meet on Italian island of Capri. (To Apr. 19)
BRUSSELS - Special European Council. (to Apr. 18)
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, APRIL 18WASHINGTON DC - G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, APRIL 19WASHINGTON DC - Annual meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group and IMF, Spring meetings. (To Apr. 21)
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** UNITED STATES - 14th anniversary of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill.
** TOGO - Togolese National Assembly Election.
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** LONDON - 2024 London Marathon.
** PARIS – 63rd anniversary of the first manned mission to space. ECUADOR – Ecuador Referendum Election.
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** GLOBAL - Earth Day.
** LUXEMBOURG – EU Foreign Affairs Council. NEW YORK, United states - Economic and Social Council, Annual Economic and Social Council forum on financing for development follow-up, including the special high-level meeting of the Council with the World Bank, IMF, WTO and UNCTAD. (To Apr. 25)
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** GLOBAL – U.N. World Book and Copyright Day.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24** GLOBAL - World Immunization Week 2024 (to April 30).
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, APRIL 25** GLOBAL - World Malaria Day.
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** PORT ARTHUR, Tasmania – 26th anniversary of Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania. VENICE, Italy - Pope Francis visits Venice.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, APRIL 29** LONDON – 13th wedding anniversary of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.
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