News: DIARY-Political and General News Events from Oct 24

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    MONDAY, OCTOBER 24 
    

    ** VIETNAM - Singaporean President Halimah Yacob visits Vietnam (final day).

    ** RIYADH - Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will visit to Saudi Arabia (to Oct. 25).

    ** TBILISI - President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev is to visit Georgia

    ** ANKARA - Azerbaijani Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov visits Turkey

    ** VILNIUS - King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium are starting their three-day state visit to Lithuania (to Oct. 26).

    ** JAKARTA - Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh meet Indonesia President Joko Widodo

    ** NICOSIA - Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto holds talks with Cyprus counterpart in Nicosia

    ** WARSAW - The president of Northern Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski visits Poland, to meet president and prime minister.

    ** VALLETTA - Maltese Finance Minister Clyde Caruana presents the government's 2023 Budget speech at Parliament House in Valletta

    ** ROME - French President Emmanuel Macron meets with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at Quirinale Presidential Palace

    ** BRUSSELS - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks at the Grand Challenges health and development forum annual meeting 2022. CANBERRA - The Deputy Minister of National Defence of the Hellenic Republic Nikolaos Hardalias will visit Australia (to Oct. 29). ROME - French president Emmanuel Macron will meet Italian officials and the Pope during a two-day visit to Italy (final day). VATICAN CITY - Cyprus President, Nicos Anastasiades, will pay a state visit to the Vatican (To Oct 25) HELSINKI - Sweden's new Minister for Defence Pal Jonson will make a working visit to Finland. BERLIN - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal open the 5th German-Ukrainian Business Forum in Berlin under the motto "Rebuild Ukraine." - 1000 GMT BERLIN - German Economy Minister Robert Habeck and his Ukrainian counterpart, Yulia Svyrydenko, take part in a dialogue as part of the 5th German-Ukrainian Business Forum under the motto "Rebuild Ukraine." - 1030 GMT VATICAN CITY - French President Emmanuel Macron meets Pope Francis at Vatican. TAIPEI CITY - Taiwan hosts the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy's World Movement for Democracy summit (to Oct. 27).

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    TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25 
    

    ** SEOUL - South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol delivers a budget speech at parliament – 0100 GMT. WASHINGTON DC - Israeli President Isaac Herzog will meet with Joe Biden, president of the United States of America. LUXEMBOURG - EU energy ministers meet in Luxembourg. BERLIN - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen host a conference on post-war reconstruction of Ukraine in Berlin.

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    WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26 
    

    ** ATHENS - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visits Athens (to Oct. 27).

    ** BRUSSELS - European Commission director general of defence Timo Pesonen at a European Parliament committee hearing – 0700 GMT. MADRID - Spain's economic affairs minister Nadia Calvino, and the President of the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) Rodrigo Buenaventura, close a CNMV conference "Towards a more sustainable finance system" - 0800 GMT. BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg meets Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca, holds news conference - 1215 GMT. PRETORIA - South Africa's finance minister Enoch Godongwana will present medium term budget policy statement, which updates economic forecasts, adjusts the budget and makes emergency changes to spending – 1200 GMT.

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    THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27 
    

    ** JAKARTA - Southeast Asian foreign ministers will hold a special meeting in Indonesia PRETORIA - The president of the Kingdom of Spain, Pedro Sanchez, will conduct a state visit to South Africa and meet with President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.

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    SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30 
    

    PRAGUE - EU Informal meeting of trade ministers (to Oct. 31).

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    THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3 
    

    BEIJING - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz reportedly plans a visit to China (To Nov.4) SEOUL - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will visit South Korea. (To Nov. 5) MANAMA - Pope Francis visits Bahrain (to Nov. 6). MUNSTER, Germany - G7 foreign ministers to meet in Munster (to Nov. 4).

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    FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4 
    

    TEHRAN – 43rd anniversary of U.S. embassy takeover. In 1979, Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and captured 90 hostages; 52 were held captive for 444 days.

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    SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6 
    

    GLOBAL – International day for preventing the exploitation of the environment in war and armed conflict.

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    MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7 
    

    BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.

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    TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8 
    

    WASHINGTON, D.C. - US House of Representatives election. WASHINGTON, D.C. - US Senate election. BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.

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    FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11 
    

    NEW DELHI - US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to visit India to attend the US-India economic and financial partnership ahead of the G20 meeting. PHNOM PENH - Leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) bloc and counterparts from other related countries attend the 40th and 41st regional summit (to Nov. 13). BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (budget) meeting.

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    SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12 
    

    BRUSSELS - World Pneumonia Day. MANAMA - Bahraini Council of Representatives election.

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    SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 
    

    YANGON, Myanmar – 11th anniversary of release of Myanmar's detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, from house arrest.

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    MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14 
    

    GLOBAL – World Diabetes Day. BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.

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    TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15 
    

    AMMAN - King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden will pay a State Visit to Jordan, at the invitation of His Majesty King Abdullah. (To Nov. 17) BALI - Indonesia set to host the G20 Summit on the resort island of Bali (to November 16). BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council (defence) meeting.

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    WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16 
    

    GLOBAL - International day for tolerance. GLOBAL – World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day.

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    THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17 
    

    GLOBAL - World Prematurity Day.

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    FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18 
    

    VUKOVAR, Croatia – 31st anniversary of the Vukovar massacre. On Nov. 18, 1991, Serb militia and Yugoslav army troops who refused to accept Croatia's independence captured the once prosperous, ethnically mixed town on the banks of the Danube, after reducing it to a rubble in a brutal three-month siege. BANGKOK - Leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) inter-governmental forum from 21 member economies in the Pacific Rim attends the annual summit in Bangkok (To Nov 19) BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting.

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    SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20 
    

    GLOBAL - World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic victims. MALABO - Equatorial Guinea holds snap presidential election. MALABO - Equatorial Guinean Chamber of Deputies Election. KATHMANDU - House of Representatives of Nepal Election. MALABO - Equatorial Guinean Senate Election. ASTANA - Kazakhstan holds snap presidential election.

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    MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21 
    

    KRONG SIEM REAP, Cambodia – 9th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Defence Ministers’ Meeting (To Nov 23)

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    TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22 
    

    BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs Council (Cohesion) meeting. LONDON - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will make a state visit to Britain, Buckingham Palace. (To Nov. 24)

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    FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25 
    

    GLOBAL – International day for elimination of violence against women. BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Trade) meeting.

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    SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26 
    

    MUMBAI, India - 14th anniversary of a series of devastating attacks on the Indian city by militants. The attacks, which began on Nov. 26, 2008 lasted nearly three days and left 174 people dead, including nine gunmen.

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    MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28 
    

    BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) meeting.

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    TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29 
    

    ** TOKYO – Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit Japan (to Nov. 30). TEHRAN, Iran – 11th anniversary of an attack on the British Embassy by dozens of Iranian students and protesters angry over Britain's unilateral sanctions.

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    THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1 
    

    WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Joe Biden hosts French President Emmanuel Macron at White house for state visit.

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    MONDAY, DECEMBER 5 
    

    BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.

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    TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6 
    

    BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.

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    MONDAY, DECEMBER 12 
    

    BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.

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    TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13 
    

    BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting.

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    THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15 
    

    BRUSSELS - European Council meeting (To Dec 16)

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