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-------------------------------------------------------------------- This diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events-------------------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27** QUITO/ BOGOTA - EU Commissioner Ylva Johansson visits Ecuador and Colombia. (to Mar 4)
** WINDSOR, England - Rishi Sunak Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hold news conference.
** BRUSSELS - Frans Timmermans Vice-President of the European Commission delivers speech at European Circular Economy Conference.
** DAMASCUS - Egypt's foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry, visits Syria for first time since war.
** BRUSSELS - EU Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius gives speech at Circular Economy Conference.
** ANKARA - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu holds talks with his Hungarian counterpart, Peter Szijjarto.
** GENEVA, Switzerland - Ukraine, China in focus as U.N. Human Rights Council session opens in Geneva – 0800 GMT
** GENEVA, Switzerland - High-level conference on disarmament meeting in Geneva – 0900 GMT
** GENEVA, Switzerland - Annalena Baerbock, Germany's Foreign Minister, will address media on the sidelines of the Human Rights Council in Geneva – 1130 GMT
** GENEVA, Switzerland - Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba speaks at U.N. event in Geneva via video link – 1400 GMT
** GENEVA, Switzerland - The World Trade Organization's dispute settlement body holds a meeting in Geneva.
** ZAGREB - Nicolas Schmit European Commissioner meets Andrej Plenkovic Prime Minister of Croatia in Zagreb.
** BARCELONA, Spain - Spanish Economy Minister Nadia Calviño speaks to media at the Pabellón de España at the Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2023. – 1430 GMT
** KYIV - Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud makes surprise visit to Ukraine and signs $400 million aid deal with Kyiv.
** ANKARA - Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will visit Turkey on Monday to show solidarity after two massive earthquakes jolted southern Turkey, his first such visit in a decade of tense relations between the countries.
** KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir will host a two-day working visit by Sabah-born Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong. (To Feb 28)
** GENEVA, Switzerland - Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan and his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir Abdollahian have met on the sidelines of the 52nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
** WINDSOR, England - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will meet with King Charles at Windsor Castle on Monday afternoon, as the UK and EU close in on a Brexit deal.
NEW DELHI - Czech Republic Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky to visit India. (To March 1)
NEW DELHI - At the invitation of the Vice President of India, Jagdeep Dhankhar, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Frederik André Henrik Christian and Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess, Mary Elizabeth of the Kingdom of Denmark are paying an official visit to India. (To Mar. 2)
BAKU – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visits Azerbaijan, meets Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev and Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov. (To Feb. 28)
BRUSSELS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Prime Minister of Kosovo Albin Kurti attend EU-sponsored talks in Brussels on normalising ties, seen as critical to both joining the bloc - 1400 GMT
GENEVA - French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna speaks to media at U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva - 0915 GMT
STOCKHOLM - EU informal meeting of telecommunications, transport, energy ministers. (To Feb. 28)
WARSAW - OECD Economic Surveys: Poland 2023
GENEVA, Switzerland - Human Rights Council meeting (To April 4)
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28** BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell receives foreign minister of Mozambique Verónica Macamo.
** BRUSSELS - Bruno Le Maire, the French Finance Minister, and Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition, hold a virtual meeting.
** BEIJING - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko will visit China at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. (To Mar 2)
** HELSINKI - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will visit Finland and meet with President Sauli Niinistö, Prime Minister Saana Marin, and Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto.
ASTANA /TASHKENT / NEW DELHI - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to visit Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and India. (To March 3)
PRETORIA, South Africa - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will host his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni. The two leaders are set to have discussions on political, economic, regional, continental and international issues.
GENEVA - Palestinian foreign minister, Riyad Al-Maliki, briefs media in Geneva - 1145 GMT.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1** NEW DELHI - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in India to participate in G20 Foreign Ministers meeting and to boost bilateral ties between Washington and New Delhi.
** BEIJING - Liu Kun, minister of finance of the People's Republic of China, will address at a press conference about fiscal policy implementation – 0200 GMT
** BERLIN - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Krisjanis Kariņs, Prime Minister of Latvia, holds news conference in Berlin – 1245 GMT
** BRUSSELS - Maros Sefcovic, Vice-President of the European Commission, chairs meeting of European Battery Alliance.
** RABAT - European Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi visits Morocco (To Mar 2)
NEW DELHI - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will be on a three-day visit to India to participate in the G2O Foreign Ministers' meeting and will also meet External Affairs Minister of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar during his visit. (To March 3)
LONDON - Norway's Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit travel to London on a two-day visit (to March 2).
PRAGUE - Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen will visit the Czech Republic (to March 2).
NEW DELHI - The G20 foreign ministers will meet in New Delhi, India (To March 2)
STOCKHOLM - EU defence ministers meet in Stockholm during the Swedish presidency of the Council of the European Union.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MARCH 2** DUBLIN/ COPENHAGEN/ HELSINKI - Spain's Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, conducts tour of Ireland, Denmark and Finland (To Mar 3)
** GENEVA, Switzerland - Sergei Ryabkov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, to speak at UN rights council in Geneva.
** NEW DELHI - U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, participates in G20 Foreign Ministers meeting in the Indian capital New Delhi being held under the shadow of Russia-Ukraine conflict.
** BERLIN - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan holds news conference in Berlin – 1430 GMT
** LIBREVILLE - Emmanuel Macron, President of France, visits Gabon.
** WASHINGTON DC - Valdis Dombrovskis, European Commissioner for Trade, meets U.S Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen in Washington.
** NEW DELHI - Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy, will pay a state visit to India. She will be accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H.E. Antonio Tajan and a high-powered business delegation (To Mar 3)
STOCKHOLM - EU defence and foreign ministers meet in Stockholm during the Swedish presidency of the Council of the European Union.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MARCH 3** LUANDA/ BRAZZAVILLE - French President Emmanuel Macron visits Angola and Congo Republic during his four-nation tour of Central Africa.
BERLIN - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier receives Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Berlin - 0930 GMT.
GLOBAL - International Day for Ear and Hearing.
WASHINGTON - US President Joe Biden is to meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the White House.
STOCKHOLM - EU foreign ministers meet in Stockholm during the Swedish presidency of the Council of the European Union.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MARCH 5MOSCOW – 70th death anniversary of Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
TALLINN - Estonian Parliament Election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MARCH 6WASHINGTON DC - Finland's President Sauli Niinisto travels to United States. The president's meetings will focus on Finland's membership of NATO, the transatlantic partnership and European security. (To March 10)
BERLIN - Germany's association of local utilities VKU hosts a conference in Berlin with Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Economy Minister Robert Habeck and Finance Minister Christian Lindner, among others, speaking at the event. (To March 7)
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MARCH 7** GENEVA, Switzerland - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk to give a speech to Human Rights Council to share an update on the human rights situation around the world – 1030 GMT
BRUSSELS - EU Informal meeting of defence ministers (To March 8)
PALIKIR - Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia Election.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8GLOBAL - International Women's Day.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MARCH 9** BRUSSELS - A trilateral meeting between the delegations of Turkey, Finland and Sweden on the NATO accession of the latter two will take place in Brussels.
BRUSSELS – EU Informal meeting of trade ministers. (To March 10)
BRUSSELS – EU Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting. (To March 10)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MARCH 10TIBET – 64th anniversary of Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, fleeing into exile after a failed uprising.
PARIS - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will visit France for British-French summit.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, MARCH 11SENDAI, Japan – 12th anniversary of Sendai earthquake and tsunami.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MARCH 13BERN, Switzerland- Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change meet in Switzerland (to Mar 17).
BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MARCH 14BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15GLOBAL - World Day of Action against Seal Hunting.
DAMASCUS - Syria marks the 12th anniversary of an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
LONDON - British Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt presents the UK government's budget and has commissioned the Office for Budget Responsibility to prepare an economic and fiscal forecast to go with it.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MARCH 16HALABJA, Iraq – 35th anniversary of 5,000 civilian Kurds being killed in Iraqi chemical weapons attack.
DUBLIN, Ireland - St. Patrick's Festival (to Mar. 19).
PRAGUE - New Czech President Petr Pavel will visit Poland, soon after taking office on March 9. (to March 17).
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MARCH 17ITALY - Anniversary of the unification of Italy
VIENNA - The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) foreign ministers will meet in Vienna, Austria.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MARCH 19EGYPT – 12th anniversary of Egyptian referendum on constitutional reforms.
ASTANA - Kazakh House of Representatives Election.
PODGORICA – Montenegro Referendum Election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MARCH 20BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MARCH 21BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22GLOBAL - World Water Day.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MARCH 23GLOBAL - World Meteorological Day.
BRUSSELS - European Council meeting. (To March 24)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MARCH 24GLOBAL - World Tuberculosis Day.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MARCH 27PHNOM PENH - Malaysian prime minister Anwar Ibrahim visits Cambodia.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MARCH 28BEIJING - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping
BALI, Indonesia - 1st ASEAN+3 Finance and Central Bank Deputies’ Meeting. (To Mar. 29)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MARCH 31BALI, Indonesia - ASEAN Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Meeting.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 2SOFIA - Bulgarian National Assembly Election.
HELSINKI - Finnish Parliament Election.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, APRIL 11AMSTERDAM - French President Emmanuel Macron makes a state visit to the Netherlands, accompanied by first lady Brigitte Macron, where he will meet King Willem-Alexander. (To Apr. 12)
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, APRIL 24LUXEMBOURG – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, APRIL 28** BUDAPEST - Pope Francis to visit Hungary (To Apr 30)
STOCKHOLM – Eurogroup Meeting.
BRUSSELS - EU informal meeting of economic and financial affairs ministers. (To Apr. 29)
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 30ASUNCIÓN - Presidency of Paraguay Election.
ASUNCIÓN - Paraguayan Chamber of Deputies Election.
ASUNCIÓN - Paraguayan Chamber of Senators Election.
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