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** WASHINGTON DC. - Francois Bausch, Luxembourg's deputy prime minister and defence minister, pays a working visit to Washington DC. (To Mar. 16)
** MOSCOW - Deputy foreign ministers of Turkey, Russia, Iran and Syria will hold a two-day meeting on Syria in Moscow. (To Mar. 16)
** WARSAW - Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and his Latvian counterpart Arturs Krisjanis Karins meet in Warsaw to discuss security and regional cooperation.
** FIJI - Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visits Fiji to discuss nuclear submarines, regional security.
** BOGOTA - Colombia's Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo will speak on a panel at an economic event - 2000 GMT.
** MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Moscow - 1000 GMT.
** SOFIA - Romanian President Klaus Iohannis visits Bulgarian President Rumen Radev in Sofia - 1130 GMT.
NAIROBI - Italian President Sergio Mattarella meets Kenyan counterpart William Ruto. DOHA/AMMAN - Minister of National Defence of Romania, Angel Tîlvăr, pays official visits to the State of Qatar and the Hashemit Kingdom of Jordan. (To March 18)
LONDON - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia, YB Dato' Seri Diraja Zambry Abd Kadir will be leading Malaysia's delegation to the Commonwealth Day Reception, Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) Meeting and Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers Meeting (CFAMM) in London. (Final day) BERLIN/BRUSSELS - Prime Minister of Bhutan Lotay Tshering to visit Germany and EU. (To March 22)
SEOUL/HANOI - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Zbigniew Rau to visit South Korea and Vietnam. (To March 17) TASHKENT - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk to visit Uzbekistan. (Final day) BERN, Switzerland- Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change meet in Switzerland (to Mar 17). ADDIS ABABA/NIAMEY - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Ethiopia and Niger. (To March 17)
BANGKOK - Thai Finance Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith chairs a ministry event - 0230 GMT.
ADDIS ABABA - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Ethiopia amid concerns over the implementation of the peace agreement in Tigray, where fighting has killed thousands and uprooted millions.
BANGKOK - Thai Finance Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith chairs a new phase of portfolio guarantee scheme signing ceremony - 0400 GMT.
MADRID - Spain's economy minister Nadia Calvino holds a meeting with financial institutions - 1200 GMT. LUSAKA - Zambian Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane will speak at an online interactive forum - 0800 GMT.
BERLIN - Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson delivers a keynote address at the Hertie School in Berlin to lay out his vision for a greener, safer and freer Europe - 1000 GMT.
GLOBAL - 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.
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** SINGAPORE CITY - Indonesia's President Joko Widodo will visit Singapore to take part in the Singapore-Indonesia Leaders' Retreat with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
** ANKARA - Finnish President Sauli Niinisto will visit Turkey at the invitation of his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (To Mar. 17) TOKYO - Japanese Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada holds a bilateral meeting with British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace in Tokyo - 0900 GMT.
MADRID - Spain's economy minister Nadia Calviño appears in parliament to attend European Union commission - 1630 GMT. BERLIN - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a working lunch in Berlin. NIAMEY - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits Niger, where he will meet with President Mohamed Bazoum and other senior officials.
PRETORIA - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa hosts his Tanzanian counterpart Samia Suluhu Hassan on a state visit - 0800 GMT. ASTANA - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk to visit Kazakhstan. (To March 17) TOKYO - Japanese Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada hosts a trilateral meeting with British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto in Tokyo - 0740 GMT.
TOKYO - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to visit Japan for summit with Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida. (To March 17) BRUSSELS - EU-Albania Stabilisation and Association Council meeting.
HALABJA, Iraq – 35th anniversary of 5,000 civilian Kurds being killed in Iraqi chemical weapons attack.
DUBLIN, Ireland - St. Patrick's Festival (to March 19).
PRAGUE - New Czech President Petr Pavel will visit Poland, soon after taking office on March 9. (to March 17).
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** WASHINGTON DC. - U.S. President Joe Biden hosts Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar at the White House for a bilateral meeting. ASTANA - British Foreign Minister James Cleverly visits Kazakhstan to hold talks with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and other top officials. (To March 18). RIGA - EU trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis speaks at the conference 'The Baltic-Nordic EU Conversations 2023' in Riga, Latvia - 0815 GMT.
BRUSSELS - EU-Republic of North Macedonia Stabilisation and Association Council meeting.
ITALY - Anniversary of the unification of Italy
VIENNA - The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) foreign ministers will meet in Vienna, Austria.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, MARCH 18TOKYO - Japanese foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi visits Solomon Islands, Kiribati and the Cook Islands. (To March 22)
TOKYO - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to meet Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for talks in Tokyo, and German ministers accompanying him will meet their Japanese counterparts in parallel. ORHID, NORTH MACEDONIA - European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell will meet with President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić and Prime Minister of Kosovo Albin Kurti in Ohrid, North Macedonia to focus on finalising the Implementation Annex of the EU Agreement on the path to normalisation of relations between Kosovo and Serbia. TOKYO - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to visit Japan.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MARCH 19NEW DELHI - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to visit India. (To March 21)
PODGORICA - Montenegro holds presidential elections
EGYPT – 12th anniversary of Egyptian referendum on constitutional reforms.
ASTANA - Kazakh House of Representatives Election.
PODGORICA – Montenegro Referendum Election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MARCH 20COPENHAGEN - The presidents of COP27 and COP28 head a two-day ministerial meeting to assess action and progress on climate commitments. (To March 21)
BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MARCH 21BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22GLOBAL - World Water Day.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MARCH 23OTTAWA - U.S. President Joe Biden will visit Canada to meet with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and address Canada's parliament. (To March 24)
GLOBAL - World Meteorological Day.
BRUSSELS - European Council meeting. (To March 24)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MARCH 24GLOBAL - World Tuberculosis Day.
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** PARIS - Britain's King Charles will travel to France (To Mar. 29) HAVANA - Cuban National Assembly of People's Power Election. ASHGABAT - Turkmenistan National Assembly Election. PARIS - King Charles on an official visit to France. (To March 29)
- - - - - - - - - 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 March 29)
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29JERUSALEM - Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov will visit Israel.
BALI, Indonesia - Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Finance Deputies Meeting.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MARCH 30BALI, Indonesia - Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Finance and Central Bank Deputies’ Meeting.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MARCH 31BALI, Indonesia - ASEAN Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Meeting.
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** ANDORRA LA VELLA, Andorra - Andorran General Council Election.
SOFIA - Bulgarian National Assembly Election.
HELSINKI - Finnish Parliament Election.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, APRIL 4BRUSSELS - NATO Foreign Ministers meet in Brussels (To April 5)
- - - - - - - - - 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 April 12)
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, APRIL 22LISBON - Portugal to host bilateral summit with Brazil. (To April 25)
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, APRIL 24LUXEMBOURG – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26WASHINGTON DC - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to meet U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington.
DELPHI, Greece - Greece hosts annual economic conference in Delphi. (To April 29)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, APRIL 28BUDAPEST - Pope Francis to visit Hungary (To Apr 30)
STOCKHOLM – Eurogroup Meeting.
BRUSSELS - EU informal meeting of economic and financial affairs ministers. (To April 29)
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 30ASUNCIÓN - Presidency of Paraguay Election.
ASUNCIÓN - Paraguayan Chamber of Deputies Election.
ASUNCIÓN - Paraguayan Chamber of Senators Election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 8BERLIN - German Finance Minister Christian Lindner gives a keynote address at a conference for German tax advisers - 1315 GMT.
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** LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia - 42nd ASEAN Summit. (To May 11)
** LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia - ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting (AMM). (To May 11)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 12STOCKHOLM - EU foreign ministers meet in Stockholm during the Swedish presidency of the Council of the European Union.
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