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- PRETORIA– President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa receives King of Lesotho Letsie III for a working visit.
- MAPUTO - Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa started a four-day visit to Mozambique. (To Mar. 20)
- BRUSSELS - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks at Cohesion Forum – 0800 GMT
- WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Joe Biden conducts call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Russia and Ukraine.
- WARSAW - Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney holds a joint press conference with his Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau during a visit to Warsaw.
HANOI - Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio‘s official visit to Vietnam and it is expected to be a new step forwards in the development of ties between Vietnam and the West African country. (Mar. 20)
GENEVA – 49th regular session of the Human Rights Council (To April 1).
DUBLIN, Ireland - St. Patrick's Festival (to Mar. 20).
VILNIUS - Norway Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt visits Lithuania (final day)
BERLIN - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz meets the Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez at the chancellery in Berlin – 1930 GMT
SOFIA - U.S. Secretary of Defence, Lloyd Austin visits Bulgaria.
BEIJING - At the invitation of Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra, Tanzanian Foreign Minister Liberata Mulamula and Zambian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Stanley Kasongo Kakubo will visit China. (To Mar. 21)
ROME - Italian Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, meets with Spanish and Portuguese Prime Ministers, Pedro Sanchez and Antonio Costa, on Ukraine crisis. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will join the meeting via teleconference – 1000 GMT
ANKARA - South Korean Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum visits Turkey will attend the opening ceremony of a bridge with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. He will also hold a meeting with Turkey's Vice President Fuat Oktay (to March 19)
BRATISLAVA - Czech Republic Defence Minister Jana Cernochova meets her Slovak counterpart Jaroslav Nad in Slovakia's capital Bratislava
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- SOFIA - U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin meets with Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov in Sofia. The two will make statements after their meeting.
- DOHA/ABU DHABI - Germany Economy Minister Robert Habeck travels to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates with a business delegation (to March 21)
- ANKARA - Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi will visit Turkey and meet with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu.
NEW DELHI - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is reportedly to visit India to meet with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi (to March 20)
BELMOPAN - Britain's Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge to visit Belize (to March 21)
EGYPT – 11th anniversary of Egyptian referendum on constitutional reforms.
DILI, Timor-Leste – Presidential election.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MARCH 20HANOI - Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob arrives in Hanoi for a 2-day visit. He will meet Vietnamese leaders, including Pham Minh Chinh Prime Minister of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and Nguyen Xuan Phuc President of Vietnam (to March 21)
KYIV - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is set to address Israel's unicameral parliament in video call – 1600 GMT
PARIS - Israeli President Isaac Herzog will visit France.
PHNOM PENH - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visits Phnom Penh and meets his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen. (To March 21)
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- POLAND - Poland’s prime minister is set to meet with the Swiss president Ignazio Cassis and the Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte.
- CANBERRA - Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hold a second annual virtual summit.
- NAYPYIDAW - Prak Sokhonn, Cambodia's foreign minister and special ASEAN envoy scheduled to visit Myanmar (to March 22)
DUBLIN - Finance Minister of Republic of Ireland Paschal Donohoe speak at online event - 1020 GMT
BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) meeting.
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- ROME - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will address the Italian parliament via a video link – 1000 GMT
AMMAN - Jordan holds municipal elections.
KINGSTON - Britain's Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge to visit Jamaica (to March 24)
GLOBAL - World Water Day.
BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs Council meeting.
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- BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives a news conference on the eve of a summit attended by U.S. President Joe Biden at which alliance leaders will discuss Ukraine.
DUBLIN - The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall are to visit the Republic of Ireland (to Mar. 25)
GLOBAL - World Meteorological Day.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MARCH 24BRUSSELS - US President Joe Biden will travel to Belgium to attend an extraordinary NATO summit along with participating in a European Council Summit.
BRUSSELS - NATO leaders gather in Brussels to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
NASSAU - Britain's Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge to visit The Bahamas (to March 26)
BANGKOK - Thai Finance Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith gives a speech on the future of Thailand and digital assets at a seminar – 0130 GMT
GLOBAL - World Tuberculosis Day.
BRUSSELS - Brussels hosts summit of European Union leaders (To Mar 25)
BRUSSELS - European Council meeting (to March 25).
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- BRUSSELS - Euro Summit
PARIS - Finland Finance Minister Annika Saarikko will represent Finland at the informal meeting of finance ministers (Ecofin) in Paris.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MARCH 29GENEVA, Switzerland - The United Nations Human Rights Council holds regular debate on the situation in Ukraine.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MARCH 31BANGKOK - Thai finance minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith gives a speech on property market outlook – 0600 GMT
VIENNA - 27th OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting via videoconference.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, APRIL 2VALLETTA - Pope Francis to visit Malta (to April 3)
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY , APRIL 3BUDAPEST, Hungary – Referendum Election.
COSTA RICA – President election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, APRIL 4BRUSSELS - Euro zone finance ministers meet on G20, banking union – 1300 GMT
LUXEMBOURG – Eurogroup meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, APRIL 5LUXEMBOURG – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, APRIL 7NAIROBI - Kenya's Finance Minister Ukur Yatani is scheduled to present the government's spending plan for the 2022/23 (July-June) fiscal year to parliament - 1100 GMT
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 10PARIS, France - Presidential election (First round)
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY APRIL 11LUXEMBOURG – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, APRIL 12LUXEMBOURG - EU General Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, APRIL 21BRUSSELS - EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager speaks on artificial intelligence at a Politico event - 0700 GMT.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 24LJUBLJANA, Slovenia - Slovenian National Assembly election.
PARIS, France - Presidential election (Second round)
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, APRIL 25NEW 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. 28)
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 1VATICAN CITY – 11th anniversary of beatification ceremony of late Pope John Paul II.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 2ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan – The day marks the 11th year since al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. special forces raid, ending a nearly 10-year worldwide hunt for the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 3GLOBAL - World Asthma Day.
GLOBAL - World Press Freedom Day.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 8GLOBAL - World Red Cross Red Crescent Day.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 9MANILA, Philippines - Presidential election.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 11TURIN, Italy, - 2022 Eurovision Song Contest (To May 14).
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 12GLOBAL - International Nurse's Day.
WEISSENHAUS, Germany - EU Foreign Minister meeting in Weissenhaus,Schleswig-Holstein (To May 14)
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 15GLOBAL - U.N. International Day of Families.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 16LISBON – 10th Anniversary of 78 billion euro bail-out of Portugal by eurozone leaders.
BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 17GLOBAL - World Telecommunication and Information Society Day.
BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 18BONN, Germany - Germany hosts the finance ministers and central bank chiefs of the Group of 7 (G7) (to May 20)
GLOBAL - International Museum Day.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 20BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) meeting
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 22GLOBAL - International Day for Biological Diversity.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 23BRUSSELS - Euro zone finance ministers meet on fiscal rules reform, banking union – 1300 GMT
BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 24BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 29BOGOTA, Colombia - Presidential election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 30BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 31GLOBAL - World No Tobacco Day.
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