March 8 (Reuters) -
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** KYIV - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.
** TASHKENT - Foreign Minister of Mongolia Battsetseg Batmonkh will pay an official visit to Uzbekistan at the invitation of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor Saidov. (To March 9)
** ROME - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni meets with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in Rome - 1430 GMT.
** ACCRA - Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo gives his annual address to the nation as the West African country grapples with its worst economic crisis in a generation - 1000 GMT.
** ANKARA - Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian visits Turkey, holds news conference with Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu - 0815 GMT.
** NAIROBI - Finance Ministers from Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan meet with officials from World Bank, the African Development Band and Europrean Union to discuss ways to improve development within the Horn of Africa region in areas ranging from food security, trade, transport corridors, digital connectivity, water, livestock insurance and climate related crises - 0900 GMT. ANKARA - Brunei's Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah to visit Turkey at the invitation of President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (To March 09)
CAPE TOWN - South African energy minister Gwede Mantashe will address the opening of a conference of African energy ministers and industry leaders in Cape Town that will discuss the transition away from fossil fuels. Ministers from Namibia, Malawi and Democratic Republic of Congo are also expected to attend. (Final day)
OTTAWA - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to visit Canada. (Final day)
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)
BRUSSELS - EU Informal meeting of defence ministers (Final day) BRUSSELS - European Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson delivers a keynote speech and participates in a panel discussion at the Solar Power Summit 2023. BAKU - Latvian President Egils Levits to pay official visit to Azerbaijan. (To March 11) AHMEDABAD, India - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese arrives in Ahmedabad on March 8 for a four-long visit to India. (To March 11)
STOCKHOLM - NATO's Stoltenberg speaks upon arrival to the EU defence ministers' meeting in Stockholm - 1025 GMT.
BRUSSELS - EU Internal Commissioner Thierry Breton and the president of the German industry association BDI, Siegfried Russwurm, discuss how to make European industry more competitive - 1800 GMT.
STOCKHOLM - EU ministers for defence, development and trade hold informal meetings in Stockholm (To Mar 10)
GLOBAL - International Women's Day.
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** BANGKOK - Finance Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith speaks on economic and property outlook at a business seminar - 0600 GMT.
** BUDAPEST - Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Finance Minister Mihaly Varga and Economic Development Minister Marton Nagy to speak at an annual business conference hosted by the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry - 0900 GMT.
** SINGAPORE - CGS China-ASEAN Business Leaders Summit (To March 10) PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron and Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hold a bilateral summit in Paris, as the two countries seek to revive their ties after recent tensions. (To March 10) BRUSSELS - European Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius delivers a keynote speech on innovation in chemistry through REACH chemical regulation programme.
MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds talks in Moscow with Saudi Arabian counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud - 0800 GMT.
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 10BERLIN - 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.
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** TASHKENT - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk to visit Uzbekistan. (To March 15)
** ATHENS - Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides visits Athens, meets Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. (to March 14) BRATISLAVA - Czech President Petr Pavel visits Slovakia on his first foreign trip (To Mar. 14)
BERLIN - 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 March 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 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 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.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MARCH 26ASHGABAT - 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 2SOFIA - Bulgarian National Assembly Election.
HELSINKI - Finnish Parliament Election.
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** BRUSSELS - 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.
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** WASHINGTON 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.
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