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-------------------------------------------------------------------- This diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events-------------------------------------------------------------------- THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9
** NEW DELHI - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in New Delhi.
** NEW DELHI - US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin to visit New Delhi to attend 2+2 ministerial dialogue. (to Nov 10)
** RIYADH - British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly meets with Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in Riyadh.
** PARIS - Polish foreign minister, Zbigniew Rau will visit France to take part in a high-level conference on humanitarian aid for the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip.
KUALA LUMPUR - China's Vice-president Han Zheng will undertake an official visit to Malaysia (To Nov. 11)
TASHKENT - Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov and first lady Aigul Japarov will make a working visit to Tashkent to attend the 16th Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization.(Final Day) VILNIUS/RIGA/ TALLINN - Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu will visit Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia (To Nov 12) NEW DELHI - The King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, accompanied by senior officials of Bhutan, will be on an official visit to India (To Nov. 10)
BEIJING - At the invitation of Member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Micheal Martin, deputy prime minister, minister for foreign affairs and minister for defence of Ireland, will pay an official visit to China. (Final Day) MUNICH, Germany - Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway, and Crown Princess Mette-Marit will pay an official visit to Germany. (Final Day)
AMSTERDAM – Indian Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture (MoS) Meenakashi Lekhi will visit the Kingdom of the Netherlands (To Nov. 10) SEOUL - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to visit South Korea to discuss North Korea and alliance issues with South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin (Final Day) TASHKENT - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will travel to Uzbekistan to attend a summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO). (Final Day)
SEOUL - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds a joint news conference with South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin in Seoul.
PARIS - Italian foreign minister Antonio Tajani speaks to journalists at the Italian embassy in Paris, following a humanitarian conference in Gaza organised by French President Emmanuel Macron - 1400 GMT.
PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron meets Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Japarov at the Elysee presidential palace, on the eve of the opening of the Paris Peace Forum - 1730 GMT.
BERLIN - Finland Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen to visit Berlin for bilateral discussions and NATO cyber defence conference. TASHKENT - President of Italy Sergio Mattarella will visit Uzbekistan. BERLIN - German Finance Minister Christian Lindner gives keynote speech at the event "AMLA in Frankfurt: Germany is ready to host the EU's anti-money laundering authority" - 1130 GMT.
ASTANA - Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay an official visit to Kazakhstan. NAIROBI - Kenya's President William Ruto to present his annual state of the nation address - 1100 GMT. BUDAPEST - Hungary Economy Minister Marton Nagy to speak about the Hungarian economic outlook at a conference - 0900 GMT.
MADAGASCAR - Malagasy presidential election.
BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
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** NEW DELHI - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin meet with their Indian counterparts foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and defence minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi for the annual 2+2 Dialogue to discuss "concerns and developments in the Indo-Pacific".
** BERLIN - German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius Meets NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Berlin – 1230 GMT MANILA - Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta on a state visit to Philippines. BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Budget) meeting.
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** SEOUL - U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd J. Austin visits South Korea for high-level security discussions, attends reception. RIYADH - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan visits Saudi Arabia.
SAN FRANCISCO, United States - US hosts APEC leaders' meeting (to Nov. 18) GLOBAL - World Pneumonia Day.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13WASHINGTON DC - Indonesian President Joko Widodo meets with U.S. President Joe Biden at White House for talks on regional security and clean-energy transition. SEOUL - U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and South Korean Defence Minister Shin Won-sik hold the 55th annual Security Consultative Meeting in Seoul. COLOMBO - 2024 budget to be presented by Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is also the finance minister to Sri Lankan parliament amidst an economic crisis. BERLIN - German President Frank Walter Steinmeier receives Nepalese President Ram Chandra Poudel in Berlin - 0900 GMT. YANGON, Myanmar – 12th anniversary of release of Myanmar's detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, from house arrest.
BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14SEOUL - U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and South Korea's Defence Minister Shin Won-sik hold an inaugural ROK (Republic of Korea)-UN Command Member States Defense Ministerial Meeting in Seoul.
GLOBAL – World Diabetes Day.
BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15JAKARTA - Southeast Asia's regional bloc ASEAN will have its defence ministers' meeting in Jakarta. (To Nov. 16) BONN, Germany - German President Frank Walter Steinmeier receives Finnish President Sauli Niinisto in Bonn - 1315 GMT. ACCRA - Ghana's finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta to present 2024 budget in parliament. GENEVA - State visit of French President Emmanuel Macron in Switzerland (to Nov. 16). GLOBAL – World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day.
BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16SAN FRANCISCO, US - Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and his economic managers including the central bank governor, ministers of finance, budget and economic planning hold Philippine Economic Briefing in San Francisco - 1700 GMT. MADAGASCAR - Election for Malagasy Presidency. BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) meeting. GLOBAL - International day for tolerance.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17TOKYO - Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov to visit Japan (To Nov. 20) GLOBAL - World Prematurity Day.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18VUKOVAR, Croatia – Thirty-second anniversary of the Vukovar massacre. On Nov. 18, 1991, Serb militia and Yugoslav army troops who refused to accept Croatia's independence captured the once prosperous, ethnically mixed town on the banks of the Danube, after reducing it to rubble in a brutal three-month siege.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19ARGENTINA - Argentina to hold second round of general elections.
GLOBAL - World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
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** LONDON - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol pays state visit to Britain. (To Nov 23) MARSHALL ISLANDS – Referendum Election.
MARSHALL ISLANDS - Marshallese Parliament Election.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21BERLIN - German President Frank Walter Steinmeier receives Montenegrin Prime Minister Jakov Milatovic in Berlin - 0900 GMT. BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22NETHERLANDS - Dutch Second Chamber election.
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** PARIS - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol pays state visit to France. (To Nov 26)
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25GLOBAL – International day for Elimination of Violence Against Women.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26MUMBAI, India - Fifteenth 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.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council (Trade) meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28BRUSSELS - NATO foreign ministers meet in Brussels. (To Nov. 29)
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29TEHRAN, Iran – Twelfth anniversary of an attack on the British Embassy by dozens of Iranian students and protesters angry over Britain's unilateral sanctions.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30HARARE - Zimbabwe Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube presents the 2024 national budget amid concerns over the impact of weak global economic growth, El Nino and depressed metal prices on the country’s economy, which is largely driven by agricultural and mineral commodities - 1400 GMT. DUBAI - The United nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) takes place in Dubai (to December 12) BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council (Cohesion) meeting.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, DECEMBER 4BRUSSELS - EU Justice and Home Affairs Council. (Dec. 5)
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7BRUSSELS, Belgium - Euro zone finance ministers meet on draft budget plans for 2024
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8BRUSSELS - European Union finance ministers meet to discuss changes to the EU's fiscal rules on debt and deficit reduction - 0800 GMT
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10EGYPT - Egyptian Presidency Election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, DECEMBER 11BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council
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** AMSTERDAM - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol pays state visit to Netherlands. (To Dec 13)
BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14BRUSSELS - European Council (To Nov. 15)
GENEVA - WTO general council meets in Geneva
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15BRUSSELS - EU leaders attend a summit in Brussels.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17CHILE - Chile Referendum Election.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - Congo DRC National Assembly Election.
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - Congo DRC Presidency Election.
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