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-------------------------------------------------------------------- This diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events-------------------------------------------------------------------- FRIDAY, MARCH 3** MANILA - Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim speaks to Philippines' ANC news channel during a state visit to Manila – 0000 GMT.
** GENEVA - WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus holds press conference on situation on Turkey and Syria after deadly earthquake – 1400 GMT.
** NEW DELHI - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan in New Delhi.
** NEW DELHI - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks at the annual geopolitical conference the Raisina Dialogue during his visit to Delhi – 0630 GMT.
** ROME - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire holds a press conference in Rome with Italian counterpart Giancarlo Giorgetti and Adolfo Urso, minister of economic development of Italy – 1100 GMT.
NEW DELHI - Canadian foreign minister Melanie Joly visits India for G20 meet. (Final Day)
DUSHANBE - Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin begins a two-day working visit to Tajikistan. (Final Day)
NEW DELHI - Catherine Colonna, minister for Europe and foreign affairs of France, will visit India to attend the G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting, the Raisina Dialogue, and bilateral engagements. (Final Day) NEW DELHI - Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong arrives in India to attend G20 foreign ministers meeting and Raisina Dialogue. (To March 4)
NEW DELHI - Vivian Balakrishnan, minister for foreign affairs of Singapore, will make a working visit to New Delhi, India to attend the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting. (Final Day)
QUITO/BOGOTA - EU Commissioner Ylva Johansson visits Ecuador and Colombia. (to Mar 4)
GENEVA, Switzerland - Human Rights Council meeting (To April 4)
ASTANA / TASHKENT / NEW DELHI - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to visit Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and India. (Final Day)
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 the trip. (Final Day)
DUBLIN/ COPENHAGEN/ HELSINKI - Spain's Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, conducts a tour of Ireland, Denmark and Finland (Final Day)
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 (Final Day) MADRID - Spain's economy minister Nadia Calvino meets Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam Tran Luu Quang – 1100 GMT.
HELSINKI - Spain's prime minister Pedro Sanchez visits Helsinki to meet with Finnish counterpart Sanna Marin – 1110 GMT.
NEW DELHI - Foreign ministers of the Quad countries — the United States, Japan, Australia and India — to meet in New Delhi – 0230 GMT.
NEW DELHI - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken participates in Quad Foreign Ministers meeting in the Indian capital New Delhi and delivers a lecture at an event organised by India's leading think-tank.
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.
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** OTTAWA - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to visit Canada. (To March 8)
OTTAWA - OECD Economic Surveys: Canada 2023
MOSUL, Iraq - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Director-General Audrey Azoulay visits northern Iraq.
WASHINGTON 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)
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** STOCKHOLM - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg meets with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson followed by a joint news conference during his visit to Sweden – 1700 GMT.
** BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg holds a news conference with Albanian President Bajram Begaj after a meeting in Brussels – 1200 GMT.
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 8STOCKHOLM - EU ministers for defence, development and trade hold informal meetings in Stockholm (To Mar 10)
GLOBAL - International Women's Day.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MARCH 9BRUSSELS - 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)
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** BERLIN - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier meets with Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih in Berlin – 1000 GMT.
** WASHINGTON - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will discuss clean energy and supply chains with U.S. President Joe Biden.
TIBET – 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 13BERLIN - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier meets with Bhutan's Prime Minister Lotay Tshering in Berlin – 0900 GMT
BERN, 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 16BRUSSELS - 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 Mar. 19).
PRAGUE - New Czech President Petr Pavel will visit Poland, soon after taking office on March 9. (to March 17).
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MARCH 17BRUSSELS - 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.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MARCH 19PODGORICA - 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 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 March 29)
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** JERUSALEM - 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 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 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 26DELPHI, 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.
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