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    WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21 
    

    • KATHMANDU - India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar visits Nepal.
    • MOSCOW - Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi takes part in a business forum in Moscow.
    • WINDHOEK - Rwandan President Paul Kagame visits Namibia (Final Day).

    EDINBURGH, Scotland - Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016 (to Aug 26). BAYREUTH, Germany - Annual Bayreuth festival 2019 (to Aug 28).

    VILNIUS/RIGA/TALLINN - Indian Vice President Venkaiah Naidu visits Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia (Final Day) SANTIAGO – APEC Third Senior Officials' meeting and related meetings (to Aug 30).

    STOCKHOLM - Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif visits Sweden and meets his Swedish counterpart Margot Wallstrom for talks on bilateral and regional issues (Final Day).

    NUR-SULTAN - U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale will visit Kazakhstan (Final Day). WASHINGTON D.C - U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis at the White House. BOGOTA - Colombian President Ivan Duque and Finance Minister Alberto Carrasquilla will attend a stock exchange conference. MOSCOW - Germany's Foreign Minister Heiko Maas meets Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. Talks are expected to focus on Syria and eastern Ukraine - 1400 GMT

    BEIJING - Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi chairs a meeting with his Japanese counterpart Taro Kono and South Korean counterpart Kang Kyung-wha on the outskirts of Beijing. BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes Slovakian President Zuzana Caputova for bilateral talks at the Chancellery in Berlin - 1400 GMT.

    PARIS - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is due to give a speech on foreign affairs ahead of a Group of Seven leaders' summit in France - 1700 GMT.

    HELSINKI - Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto in Helsinki - 1300 GMT. BERLIN - Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier welcomes Slovakia´s President Zuzana Caputova with military honors in Berlin - 0800 GMT. SYRIA – 6th anniversary of nerve gas attack which killed hundreds of people in rebel-held neighborhoods on the edge of Damascus.

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    THURSDAY, AUGUST 22 
    
    • HANOI - Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison meets the business community of both Australia and Vietnam in Hanoi. OTTAWA – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Ottawa. PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron meets Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to talk about European and bilateral issues. - 1230 GMT

    THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel in The Hague to discuss ways to coordinate their efforts to fight climate change.

    PARIS - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to meet French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.

    BEIJING - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang meets Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono and South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha, who are in Beijing for the ninth China-Japan-ROK foreign ministers' meeting. - 0300 GMT PARIS - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Paris for a bilateral meeting with President Emmanuel Macron (to Aug. 23).

    STOCKHOLM - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif visits Norway and meets the country's Prime Minister Erna Solberg and his Norwegian counterpart Ine Eriksen Soereide. BERLIN - German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier and Turkish Industry Minister Mustafa Varank hold speeches at a conference on artificial intelligence in Berlin - 0650 GMT.

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    FRIDAY, AUGUST 23 
    

    PARIS - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is scheduled to travel to Paris on Friday to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron at a time of rising tensions with the United States.

    ABU DHABI/MANAMA - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay a three-day visit to the UAE and Bahrain (to Aug. 25) PARIS – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday he will visit France from Aug. 23 to attend a summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations. TRALEE, Ireland - 2019 Rose of Tralee International Festival (to August 27). BALTIC WAY – 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way, a human chain of people in 1989 stretching from Vilnius to Tallinn to mark solidarity in the struggle for independence from the Soviet Union.

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    SATURDAY, AUGUST 24 
    

    BIARRITZ, France - G7 summit (to August 26).

    BIARRITZ, France - Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte arrives in Biarritz, southwest France for the G7 summit.

    BIARRITZ, France - German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives in Biarritz, southwest France for the G7 summit. BIARRITZ, France - United States President Donald Trump arrives in Biarritz, southwest France for the G7 summit.

    BIARRITZ, France - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives in Biarritz, southwest France for the G7 summit.

    BIARRITZ, France - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives in Biarritz, southwest France for the G7 summit.

    BIARRITZ, France - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives in Biarritz, southwest France for the G7 summit. NAURU - Nauruan Parliament election.

    POLAND - Poland marks the 30th anniversary of the creation of the first post-Communist government in 1989.

    UKRAINE – 28th Anniversary of Independence.

    WASHINGTON – 207th anniversary of the Burning of Washington, including the White House and the US Capitol building, by the British troops during the War of 1812. BIARRITZ - G7 summit, Biarritz, France meeting (to Aug 26).

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    SUNDAY, AUGUST 25 
    

    URUGUAY - Uruguay's Independence Day.

    PARIS – 75th anniversary of the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation in the Second World War.

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    MONDAY, AUGUST 26 
    

    BIARRITZ, France - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gives a closing news conference after the G7 summit in Biarritz. - 1400 GMT. BIARRITZ, France - French President Emmanuel Macron gives closing news conference after G7 summit in Biarritz.

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    TUESDAY, AUGUST 27 
    
    • BEIJING - Uzbekistan Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov attends a welcoming and signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
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    WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28 
    
    • WARSAW - Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis meets Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki for intergovernmental consultations. VENICE, Italy – 2019 Venice International Film Festival (to September 7). HELSINKI - EU Informal meeting of defence ministers (to August 29). YOKOHAMA, Japan - Leaders of African nations and representatives of international organisations meet for the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Japan.
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    THURSDAY, AUGUST 29 
    

    HELSINKI - EU informal meeting of foreign affairs ministers (to Aug. 30).

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    SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 
    

    LEIPZIG, Germany - Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF and nominee to head the European Central Bank, will address a ceremony in the Leipzig Opera presenting German Chancellor Angela Merkel with an honorary doctorate from the city's business school. WARSAW – U.S President Donald Trump visits Poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two (to Sep 02).

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    SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 
    

    NORTH OSSETIA, Russia - 12th anniversary of the terrorist attack at Beslan School.

    WARSAW - Polish President Andrzej Duda and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier commemorate 80th anniversary of WWII start. WARSAW - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will visit Poland.

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    TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 
    

    REYKJAVIK - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will visit Iceland.

    BANGKOK - 51st ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Meeting (AEM) & Related Meetings (to September 11).

    BANGKOK - 33rd AEM-AFTA Council Meeting (to September 11).

    BANGKOK - AEM – 22nd AIA Council Meeting (to September 11).

    BANGKOK - 11th CLMV Economic Ministers Meeting (to September 11).

    BANGKOK - 11th Mekong-Japan Economic Ministers Meeting (to September 11).

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    WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 
    

    LONDON - World Nuclear Association (WNA) Annual Symposium (to September 6).

    VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Russia hosts Eastern Economic Forum which is traditionally attended by Asian leaders and Russian President Vladimir Putin (to September 6).

    MAPUTO/ ANTANANARIVO/ PORT LOUIS - Pope Francis visits Mozambique, Madagscar and Mauritius (to September 10).

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    THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 
    

    MUNICH, Germany – 47th anniversary of the attack on Israeli Olympic team by Palestinian gunmen, killing 11 Israelis.

    TORONTO, Canada - Toronto International Film Festival 2019 (to September 15).

    MAPUTO- Pope Francis meets Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi - 0730 GMT.

    LONDON - Brexit minister Steve Barclay and his ministerial team take questions in parliament - 0830 GMT.

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    FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 
    

    INDIA/BANGLADESH – 8th anniversary of a pact to end a 40-year border demarcation dispute between India and Bangladesh.

    DUBLIN - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visits Ireland for talks (to Sep. 07)

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    SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 
    

    ANTANANARIVO - Pope Francis meets Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina.

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    MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 
    

    FUNAFUTI - Tuvaluan House of Assembly election. MAURITIUS - Pope Francis pays a courtesy meeting to Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth at the country's presidential palace.

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    WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 
    

    UNITED STATES – 18th anniversary of 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. BEIJING – President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev will pay an official visit to China (to Aug. 12).

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    THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 
    

    MOSCOW - Russia holds its annual Moscow Financial Forum attended by finance minister Anton Siluanov and a number of other economic and fiscal officials (to Sept. 13).

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    FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 
    

    HELSINKI - EU Informal meeting of economic and financial affairs ministers (to September 14).

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    SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 
    

    TUNIS - Tunisia Presidential Election.

    GLOBAL - International day of Democracy. GUATEMALA – 198th anniversary of Independence. EL SALVADOR - 198th anniversary of Independence. COSTA RICA - 198th anniversary of Independence. HONDURAS - 198th anniversary of Independence. NICARAGUA - 198th anniversary of Independence.

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    MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 
    

    VIENNA - 63rd IAEA General Conference (to September 20). DUBLIN – Irish Minister of Finance Paschal Donohoe to address an event on "Brexit, the Irish Economy and the Future of European Fintech" at Dublin City University's (DCU) Brexit Institute. - 1100 GMT.

    BANGKOK - ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) (to September 19).

    BRUSSELS - General Affairs Council meeting

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    TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 
    

    ISRAEL - Israeli Knesset election. NEW YORK, U.S. - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attends U.N. General assembly in New York.

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    WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 
    

    UNITED NATIONS - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to hold a news conference ahead of the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations. RIYADH - Euromoney GCC Financial Forum 2019, a finance conference with speakers including Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) Governor Ahmed al-Kholifey, Saudi Arabian Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan, senior bankers, CEOs of major corporates and banks (to Sept. 19).

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    FRIDAY,SEPTEMBER 20	
    

    WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Donald Trump hosts Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the White House for an official visit and State dinner.

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    SATURDAY,SEPTEMBER 21 
    

    MUNICH – 186th Munich Oktoberfest (to October 6).

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    SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 
    

    HELSINKI - Informal meeting of agriculture ministers (to September 24).

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    TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 
    

    BISSAU - Guinea-Bissau marks 46th anniversary of Independence from Portugal.

    NEW YORK CITY, NY - World leaders arrive for UNGA General Debate. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, U.S. President Donald Trump, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and French President Emmanuel Macron are expected to speak in the morning session - 1200 GMT.

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    SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 
    

    GLOBAL - World Rabies Day.

    KABUL - Presidential election.

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    SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 
    

    VIENNA - Austrian National Council election.

    BERLIN – BMW Berlin Marathon.

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    SATURDAY, OCTOBER 05 
    

    ABU DHABI - Election for Emirati Federal National Council.

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    SUNDAY, OCTOBER 06 
    

    LISBON - Election for Portuguese Assembly of the Republic.

    TUNIS - Election for Tunisian Constituent Assembly.

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    FRIDAY, OCTOMBER 11 
    

    STRBSKE PLESO, Slovakia - Slovakian Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini, Slovakian central bank governor and member of the ECB governing council Peter Kazimir, President of the European Council Donald Tusk, Vice-President of the European Commission for the Euro and Social Dialogue Valdis Dombrovskis, European Investment Bank Vice-President Vazil Hudak will speak at the annual Tatra Summit conference (to Oct. 13).

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    SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13 
    

    WARSAW - Election for Polish Sejm.

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    MONDAY, OCTOBER 14 
    

    SANTIAGO – APEC finance ministers' meeting (to Oct. 15).

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    TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15 
    

    MAPUTO - Election for President.

    MAPUTO - Election for Mozambican Assembly.

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    SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20 
    

    BERN - Referendum election.

    BERN - Election for Swiss National Council.

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    MONDAY, OCTOMBER 21 
    

    OTTAWA - Election for Canadian House of Commons.

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    SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27 
    

    BANGKOK - Leaders from Southeast and East Asian nations gather in Bangkok to attend the 35th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits before handing over the chairmanship to Vietnam. BUENOS AIRES - Election for Argentinian Chamber of Deputies.

    BUENOS AIRES - Election for Argentinian Senate.

    BUENOS AIRES - Election for President.

    SUCRE - Election for Bolivian Chamber of Deputies.

    SUCRE - Election for Bolivian Chamber of Senators.

    SUCRE - Election for President.

    PORT-AU-PRINCE - Election for Haitian Senate.

    PORT-AU-PRINCE - Election for Haitian Chamber of Deputies.

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