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** ANKARA - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan attends an extraordinary summit of the Organisation of Turkic States in Ankara. He holds talks on the summit sidelines with the Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (0800 GMT), the Turkmenistan leader (1345 GMT) and the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (1445 GMT).
** CHISINAU - Britain's foreign secretary James Cleverly visits Moldova. WASHINGTON DC. - Francois Bausch, Luxembourg's deputy prime minister and defence minister, pays a working visit to Washington DC. (Final day) MOSCOW - Deputy foreign ministers of Turkey, Russia, Iran and Syria will hold a two-day meeting on Syria in Moscow. (Final day) 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)
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) 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) 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).
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MARCH 17WASHINGTON 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.
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** BRUSSELS - EU-Iraq Cooperation Council Meeting.
NEW 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.
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** JOHANNESBURG - IMF's Kristalina Georgieva, Zambia's finance minister Situmbeko Musokotwane, and Sierra Leone Finance Minister Sheku Ahmed Fantamadi Bangura discuss economic shocks - 1200 GMT.
BRUSSELS - 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)
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** BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg meets Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store at NATO headquarters, holds news conference - 1415 GMT.
** BRUSSELS - Euro Summit.
GLOBAL - World Tuberculosis Day.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MARCH 26PARIS - 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.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 2ANDORRA 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.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 9LABUAN 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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