News: DIARY-Political and General News Events from Nov. 19

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    FRIDAY, NOV. 19 
    

    • ATHENS - Foreign ministers of Greece, Cyprus, Egypt and France meet in Athens. The meeting will be attended by Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, Cyprus Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, and French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.
    • SKOPJE, North Macedonia - Polish President Andrzej Duda holds a news conference with his North Macedonian counterpart Stevo Pendarovski. Monitoring for comments on the situation on the Poland-Belarus border.
    • WASHINGTON DC - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a news conference at the Canadian embassy in Washington DC after meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico at White House.

    NAIROBI/ ABUJA/ DAKAR – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal (To Nov. 20).

    AMMAN/CAIRO - Britain's Prince Charles and wife Camilla are to visit Jordan and Egypt (Final Day)

    BERLIN - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg visits Germany on Nov 18-19. On Nov. 18 he will participate in the 2021 Henry A. Kissinger Prize ceremony in honour of former U.S. Defence Minister General James N. Mattis, organised by the American Academy in Berlin. On Nov. 19 he will deliver the keynote speech at the NATO Talk Conference, hosted by the German Atlantic Association and Germany's Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS). Stoltenberg will also meet Chancellor Angela Merkel." (Final Day)

    DOHA/ABU DHABI/MANAMA - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro visits Qatar on a six-day trip to the Gulf that also takes him to UAE and Bahrain. (To Nov. 23)

    ABUJA - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is scheduled to give a speech on U.S. Africa Policy at the secretariat of West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS in Abuja.

    MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Kremlin with President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

    MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov meets OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde. RIGA - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg visits Riga, will meet with Latvian President Egils Levits and will take part in a joint press conference.

    BRUSSELS - EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell set to give doorstep before meeting of EU foreign affairs development council. - 0700 GMT

    BRUSSELS - British Brexit minister David Frost and European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic meet in Brussels

    BERLIN - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg holds a speech on "NATO 2030: The transatlantic community in the era of strategic competition" in Berlin - 0830 GMT

    BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) meeting

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    SUNDAY, NOV. 21 
    

    ABU DHABI - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire to visit UAE.

    BULGARIA - Presidential election.

    SEOUL - Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Quesada will make a state visit to South Korea next week to discuss a range of bilateral and global issues with President Moon Jae-in (to Nov. 24)

    VENEZUELA - Venezuela holds regional and local elections

    SANTIAGO, Chile – Presidential election.

    SANTIAGO, Chile – Chilean Chamber of Deputies election.

    SANTIAGO, Chile – Chilean Senate election.

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    MONDAY, NOV. 22 
    
    • BRUSSELS - French Prime Minister Jean Castex visits Brussels to meet Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo with security on the agenda.

    MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will discuss mutual relationship between the two countries with his Lebanese counterpart, Abdallah Bou Habib in Moscow

    DUSHANBE - Foreign ministers of Central Asian countries and European Union meet in Dushanbe

    MADRID - Spain's Economy Minister Nadia Calviño speaks at Forum Europe meeting organized by Nueva Economia – 0800 GMT

    BERLIN - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier receives Finland's President Sauli Niinisto at Bellevue Palace in Berlin - 1100 GMT.

    GENEVA - World Trade Organization holds General Council meeting

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    TUESDAY, NOV. 23 
    

    MOSCOW – President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas will pay an official visit to Russia.

    BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council.

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    WEDNESDAY, NOV. 24 
    

    RABAT - Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz will visit Morocco and sign an agreement with his counterpart on enhancing security cooperation (to Nov. 25).

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    THURSDAY, NOV. 25 
    

    BRUSSELS - Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) via video conference. (Nov. 26)

    GLOBAL – International day for the elimination of violence against women.

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    FRIDAY, NOV. 26 
    
    • VATICAN CITY - French President Emmanuel Macron meets Pope Francis at Vatican - 0930 GMT.

    MUMBAI, India - 13th anniversary of a series of devastating attacks on the Indian city by militants. The attacks, which began on Nov. 26, 2008 lasted nearly three days and left 174 people dead, including nine gunmen.

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    SUNDAY, NOV. 28 
    

    TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Presidential election.

    TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Honduran National Congress election.

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    MONDAY, NOV. 29 
    

    LONDON - Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo travels to the UK on Monday where he visits the Oxford University and the Oxford Science Enterprises. He will give a speech on EU-UK relations on Monday night at the Oxford Union Society. On Tuesday he meets with Boris Johnson in a bilateral meeting in London. (To Nov. 30)

    GENEVA - WHO holds special assembly of health ministers on reform, potential pandemic treaty (to Dec.1).

    BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council (Trade) meeting.

    TEHRAN, Iran – 10th anniversary of an attack on the British Embassy by dozens of Iranian students and protesters over Britain's unilateral sanctions.

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    TUESDAY, NOV. 30 
    

    RIGA - Latvia will be hosting a meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers for the first time. To address current security challenges. (To Dec. 1)

    GENEVA, Switzerland - World Trade Organization holds ministerial meeting (to Dec 3)

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    WEDNESDAY, DEC. 1 
    

    GLOBAL - World AIDS Day.

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    THURSDAY, DEC. 2 
    

    LONDON - OPEC+ holds ministerial meeting to set production policy.

    NICOSIA/ATHENS - Pope Francis will visit Cyprus and Greece (to Dec. 6)

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    FRIDAY, DEC. 3 
    

    PARIS - OECD Economic Surveys: Denmark 2021.

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    SATURDAY, DEC. 4 
    

    BANJUL, Gambia - Presidential elections.

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    MONDAY, DEC. 6 
    

    BRUSSELS - Euro zone finance ministers to discuss 2022 draft budgets, euro summit – 1400 GMT

    BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.

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    TUESDAY, DEC.7 
    

    BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.

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    WEDNESDAY, DEC. 8 
    

    MOSCOW - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is scheduled to make a visit to Moscow.

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    THURSDAY, DEC. 9 
    

    MADRID – President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades will visit Spain.

    BRUSSELS - EU Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting (to Dec 10).

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    SATURDAY, DEC. 11 
    

    PALESTINE - Palestinians to hold local election.

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    MONDAY, DEC. 13 
    

    BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.

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    TUESDAY, DEC. 14 
    

    BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting.

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    THURSDAY, DEC. 16 
    

    DHAKA - Indian President Ram Nath Kovind will visit Dhaka to attend Bangladesh’s Victory Day celebrations.

    BRUSSELS - European Council meeting (to Dec 17).

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    FRIDAY, DEC. 24 
    

    TRIPOLI, Libya - Presidential elections.

    TRIPOLI, Libya - Referendum election.

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    SATURDAY, JAN. 1 
    

    TALLINN – 12th anniversary of adoption of the euro by Estonia.

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    SUNDAY, JAN. 2 
    

    SAUDI ARABIA – Stage of Dakar Rally 2022 (To. Jan. 14)

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    TUESDAY, JAN. 4 
    

    BURMA – 74th anniversary of Burma's independence.

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    FRIDAY, JAN. 7 
    

    PALM SPRINGS, Ca - 32th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (To Jan. 18).

    PHNOM PENH - The ruling Cambodian People's Party celebrates the 43rd anniversary of the victory over the Khmer Rouge regime.

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    TUESDAY, JAN. 11 
    

    WASHINGTON/MOSCOW – 11th Anniversary of U.S.-Russia civilian nuclear cooperation agreement.

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    WEDNESDAY, JAN. 12 
    

    HAITI - 12th anniversary of Haiti's magnitude 7 earthquake that destroyed much of the Haitian capital.

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    FRIDAY, JAN. 14 
    

    BRUSSELS - European Motor Show Brussels 2022 (to Jan. 23).

    TUNISIA – 12th Anniversary of ousting of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

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    MONDAY, JAN. 17  
    

    BRUSSELS - Eurogroup Meeting.

    ABU DHABI - World Future Energy Summit (WFES) 2022 (to Jan. 19).

    DAVOS, Switzerland - World Economic Forum 2022 Annual Meeting (to Jan 21).

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    TUESDAY, JAN. 18 
    

    BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council.

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    FRIDAY, JAN. 21 
    

    DAVOS, Switzerland - World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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    MONDAY, JAN. 24 
    

    BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council.

    LOME, Togo – World Day for African and Afrodescendant Culture.

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    TUESDAY, JAN. 25 
    

    BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council.

    EGYPT – 11th Anniversary of beginning of Egyptian revolution, a series of mass popular protests leading to the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak.

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