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- BRUSSELS - World Trade Organization director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala gives a briefing after postponement of ministerial conference that was due to be held this week – 1230 GMT.
- RIGA - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives a news conference after the first day of a meeting of the Alliance's foreign ministers in Riga – 1700 GMT.
- PARIS - French president Emmanuel Macron hosts Lithuania president Gitanas Nauseda for working lunch. Both leaders give statements upon Nauseda's arrival – 1200 GMT.
- NAIROBI - Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta to give his State of Nation address to parliament – 1130 GMT.
- MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets Brazilian Foreign Minister Carlos Franca in Moscow. A news conference scheduled after the talks – 0930 GMT.
- MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks with Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc
DAKAR - State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao will attend the Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) to be held in Dakar (Final day)
MOSCOW - Vietnam President Nguyen Xuan Phuc will pay an official visit to Russia (to Dec. 2)
RIGA/STOCKHOLM - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Latvia and Sweden to attend Transatlantic and European security meetings and hold bilateral talks (to Dec. 2)
BERN/ MOSCOW - President of Vietnam Nguyen Xuan Phuc will lead a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation to pay official visits to Switzerland and Russia (to Dec.2)
LONDON - Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo travels to the UK on Monday where he visits the Oxford University and the Oxford Science Enterprises. He will give a speech on EU-UK relations on Monday night at the Oxford Union Society. On Tuesday he meets with Boris Johnson in a bilateral meeting in London. (Final day)
GENEVA - WHO holds special assembly of health ministers on reform, potential pandemic treaty (to Dec.1).
DAKAR - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Senegalese counterpart hold news conference to close the 8th FOCAC Ministerial Conference – 1300 GMT.
RIGA - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Latvian leaders and gives a news conference with the country's foreign minister ahead of the start of a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Riga – 0800 GMT.
PARIS - Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets French president Emmanuel Macron and foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.
ABUJA/YAMOUSSOUKRO/ACCRA/DAKAR - Cyril Ramaphosa President of South Africa undertakes four-nation West Africa visit (to Dec. 7)
MADRID - Spain's economy minister, Nadia Calvino, closes annual financial conference - 1240 GMT. RIGA - Latvia will be hosting a meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers for the first time. To address current security challenges. (To Dec. 1)
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- RIGA - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives a news conference after the end of a meeting of the Alliance's foreign ministers in Riga – 1400 GMT.
- DUBLIN - Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic updates Northern Irish committee on the protocol as Britain and the European Union continue efforts to break their impasse over post-Brexit trade arrangements for Northern Ireland – 1630 GMT.
PARIS - The OECD publishes economic outlook with forecasts and analysis for member countries and major economies – 1000 GMT.
GLOBAL - World AIDS Day.
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- SEOUL - Defense Minister Suh Wook and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin hold a joint news conference after holding an annual Security Consultative Meeting in Seoul to discuss North Korea, the alliance and regional issues – 0400 GMT.
STRASBOURG, France - EU Parliament President David Sassoli, hosts French President Emmanuel Macron, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, EU Council President Charles Michel and EU Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen at a ceremony in the EU Parliament in Strasbourg honouring the late French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing – 0930 GMT.
LONDON - OPEC+ holds ministerial meeting to set production policy.
NICOSIA/ATHENS - Pope Francis will visit Cyprus and Greece (to Dec. 6)
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- BRUSSELS - European Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic hosts British Brexit Minister David Frost to discuss impasse over trading arrangements for Northern Ireland after Brexit.
TOKYO - OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann holds online news conference hosted by the Japan National Press Club – 0700 GMT.
PARIS - OECD Economic Surveys: Denmark 2021.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, DEC. 4ATHENS - Pope Francis to visit Athens and Lesbos from December 4-6. In Athens he will meet political officials and hold a mass at a concert hall. In Lesbos he will visit a reception centre for refugees. (To Dec. 6)
BANJUL, Gambia - Presidential elections.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, DEC. 6NEW DELHI - Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit India for the annual bilateral summit.
BRUSSELS - Euro zone finance ministers to discuss 2022 draft budgets, euro summit – 1400 GMT
BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, DEC.7BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, DEC. 8MOSCOW - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is scheduled to make a visit to Moscow.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, DEC. 9MADRID – President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades will visit Spain.
BRUSSELS - EU Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting (to Dec 10).
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, DEC. 10LONDON - UK hosts G7 summit of foreign and development ministers in Liverpool (to Dec. 12).
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, DEC. 11PALESTINE - Palestinians to hold local election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, DEC. 13BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, DEC. 14BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, DEC. 15BRUSSELS - Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan meet in Brussels to discuss tensions that led to border clashes with several troops killed in November.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, DEC. 16DHAKA - Indian President Ram Nath Kovind will visit Dhaka to attend Bangladesh’s Victory Day celebrations.
BRUSSELS - European Council meeting (to Dec 17).
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, DEC. 19HONG KONG - Hong Kong Legislative Council election.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, DEC. 24TRIPOLI, Libya - Presidential elections.
TRIPOLI, Libya - Referendum election.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JAN. 1TALLINN – 12th anniversary of adoption of the euro by Estonia.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JAN. 2SAUDI ARABIA – Stage of Dakar Rally 2022 (To. Jan. 14)
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JAN. 4BURMA – 74th anniversary of Burma's independence.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JAN. 7PALM SPRINGS, Ca - 32th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (To Jan. 18).
PHNOM PENH - The ruling Cambodian People's Party celebrates the 43rd anniversary of the victory over the Khmer Rouge regime.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JAN. 11WASHINGTON/MOSCOW – 11th Anniversary of U.S.-Russia civilian nuclear cooperation agreement.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JAN. 12HAITI - 12th anniversary of Haiti's magnitude 7 earthquake that destroyed much of the Haitian capital.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JAN. 13MADRID - Spain's economy minister, Nadia Calvino, speaks at Forum Europe meeting organized by Nueva Economia - 0800 GMT.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JAN. 14BRUSSELS - European Motor Show Brussels 2022 (to Jan. 23).
TUNISIA – 12th Anniversary of ousting of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JAN. 17BRUSSELS - Eurogroup Meeting.
ABU DHABI - World Future Energy Summit (WFES) 2022 (to Jan. 19).
DAVOS, Switzerland - World Economic Forum 2022 Annual Meeting (to Jan 21).
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JAN. 18BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JAN. 21DAVOS, Switzerland - World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JAN. 24TRIPOLI - Election for Libyan house of representatives.
BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council.
LOME, Togo – World Day for African and Afrodescendant Culture.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JAN. 25BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council.
EGYPT – 11th Anniversary of beginning of Egyptian revolution, a series of mass popular protests leading to the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak.
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