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- BRUSSELS - Defence Minister of Finland Antti Kaikkonen will attend the meeting of the European Union Foreign Affairs Council.
- HANOI - Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn will pay an official visit to Vietnam. (To Mar. 22)
- CANBERRA - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will welcome the Prime Minister of the Independent State of Samoa, Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa, to Australia. (To Mar. 25)
- KUALA LUMPUR – Singapore’s President Halimah Yacob will undertake a state visit to Malaysia. (To Mar. 22)
- BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN - Minister for Defence of Singapore Ng Eng Hen will make an official visit to Brunei Darussalam. (To Mar. 21)
- BRUSSELS - EU Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi receives Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic
- MANILA - Philippines' finance and justice ministers, and its ambassador to Washington, at a foreign correspondents group event. - 0100 GMT
- MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the International conference "Russia and Africa in the multipolar world". Around 40 countries take part in the conference. - 1200 GMT
- BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg meets with Finland’s Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto and Defence Minister Antti Kaikkonen at NATO Headquarters. - 1315 GMT
- BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg meets the foreign Minister of Iraq, Fuad Hussein, at NATO Headquarters. - 1430 GMT
- WASHINGTON DC - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita at the State Department - 2000 GMT BERLIN/BRUSSELS - Prime Minister of Bhutan Lotay Tshering to visit Germany and EU. (To March 22)
TOKYO - Japanese foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi visits Solomon Islands, Kiribati and the Cook Islands. (To March 22)
HANOI - At the invitation of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Viet Nam Bui Thanh Son, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Energy of the Commonwealth of Dominica Vince Henderson will pay an official visit to Vietnam. (To March 22) NEW DELHI - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to visit India. (To March 21) NEW DELHI - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in New Delhi.
MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Ministrer Sergei Lavrov meets Armenia counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan in Moscow - 0900 GMT.
MOSCOW - China's President Xi Jinping will visit Russia. (To March 22) COPENHAGEN - 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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- MOSCOW - Chinese President Xi Jinping is to meet with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
- BRUSSELS - EU Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi receives Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili
- LONDON - Interview with Sri Lanka State Finance Minister Shehan Semasinghe following the IMF board meeting sign off scheduled for Monday, March 20. Will speak to the minister about the debt restructuring, Chinese lending and investment as well as wider economic outlook.
- Avarua District - Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi visiting Cook Islands pays a courtesy call on Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mark Stephen Brown.
- WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at White House Conservation in Action Summit in Washington.
- BEIJING - New Zealand's foreign minister, Nanaia Mahuta, will travel to China on Tuesday to meet her counterpart Qin Gang on the first such visit by a New Zealand minister since 2019. (to March 25)
- TAIPEI CITY - German Education Minister Stark-Watzinger visits Taiwan National Science and Technology Council. - 0220 GMT
- BERLIN - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier receives his newly elected Czech counterpart Petr Pavel with military honours outside Schloss Bellevue castle before they speak to reporters. - 0800 GMT
- BRUSSELS - EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell takes part in the inaugural Schuman Security and Defence Forum on EU defence and security policy. - 0800 GMT
- COPENHAGEN - High-level press conference with participants of the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial meeting - 1200 GMT
- BERLIN - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz receives newly elected Czech President and former NATO general Petr Pavel outside Berlin's chancellery. - 1630 GMT LONDON - Britain's finance minister, Jeremy Hunt, speaks to the Economic Affairs Committee the week after delivering his budget, which the government hopes will boost the UK's stagnating economy. 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.
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- BEIJING - Ghana's finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta will meet with Chinese officials in Beijing.
- MANILA - Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong will visit Philippines. (To Mar. 24)
- BEIJING - At the invitation of Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang, New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta will visit China. (To Mar. 25)
- BRUSSELS - EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU Council President Charles Michel chair a summit in Brussels of employers' and trade unions to discuss competitiveness, skills and the single market.
- VIENNA - Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg holds a news conference with his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic. - 1230 GMT
- NEW YORK - U.N. Water Conference takes place in New York (to March 24) GLOBAL - World Water Day.
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- LONDON - Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama is likely to talk about UK immigration, the Ukraine conflict, regional security and the Balkans. - 1730 GMT OTTAWA - 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 24BRUSSELS - 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 26BEIJING - Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will visit China at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. (To March 31) 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)
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- BERLIN - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier receives Kenia's President William Samoei Ruto - 0930 GMT PHNOM 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)
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- INDONESIA - Leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meet in the first summit of the year in Indonesia
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 12STOCKHOLM - EU foreign ministers meet in Stockholm during the Swedish presidency of the Council of the European Union.
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- ANKARA - Grand National Assembly of Turkey Election.
- ANKARA - Presidency of Turkey Election.
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- BRUSSELS - EU Finance ministers meet in Brussels
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- HIROSHIMA - Japan to host summit of G7 leaders (to May 21).
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- BRUSSELS - EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels.
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- GENEVA - Switzerland holds a ministerial debate on the themes it will raise as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.
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- BRUSSELS - Meeting of EU trade ministers
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- OSLO - Norway to host meeting of NATO foreign ministers
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