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- MOSCOW - Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan will visit Moscow. (to Oct. 21)
- RIYADH - British foreign minister Liz Truss visits Saudi Arabia.
- BOGOTA - U.S. Secretary of State Blinken will hold a bilateral U.S.-Colombia High-Level Dialogue (to Oct. 21) JAKARTA - Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah will be making a four-day official visit to Jakarta. (final day)
ATHENS - EU climate policy chief Frans Timmermans, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and senior government and foreign officials to attend conference in Athens on climate crisis (final day). BRUNEI - ASEAN+3 Finance and Central Deputies Meeting (AFCDM + 3) via Video Conference (to Oct. 21). MUSCAT - Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will visit Oman, where he is to meet his Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamood Al Βusaid.
MOSCOW - Moscow hosts international talks on Afghanistan with Taliban taking part – 1400 GMT.
MADRID - Spain's minister of Foreign Affairs José Manuel Albares meets his Andorran counterpart María Ubach – 1200 GMT.
BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg holds a news conference ahead of a meeting of NATO Defence Ministers in Brussels – 1300 GMT.
VILNIUS - Polish President Andrzej Duda and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda read keynotes at a conference in Vilnius (Lithuanian National Security Conference 2021: "Road to Warsaw Security Forum"). Polish and Lithuanian Foreign and Defence ministers speak at a panel discussion at the conference – 0705 GMT.
MILAN - Conference on green investing in Italy with EU economy commissioner Paolo Gentiloni, Italy energy transition minister Roberto Cingolani, Enel CEO Francesco Starace.
BOGOTA - U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make his first visit to Colombia. (To Oct. 21)
TRIPOLI – 10th anniversary of capture and killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
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- MADRID - Spain's economy minister Nadia Calviño opens Workers' Commissions annual Congress, the largest trade union in Spain - 0900 GMT.
- SEOUL - Mevlut Cavusoglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, will pay a visit to the Republic of Korea upon the invitation of Eui-yong Chung, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea. (To Oct. 24) WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Joe Biden is set to hold his first bilateral talks as president with an African leader, hosting Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta as a war and a humanitarian crisis roil neighboring Ethiopia.
BRUSSELS - Defence ministers from the NATO alliance meet in Brussels for a two-day summit chaired by Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (to Oct 22).
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's mines and energy minister Gwede Mantashe and Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter to speak on sustainable and energy transition to a low carbon economy at a national energy conference.
BRUSSELS - European Council (to Oct. 22).
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- AUCKLAND, New Zealand - Finance Ministers of APEC countries meet virtually to address regional macroeconomic and financial issues at the APEC Summit in New Zealand.
- LUANDA - Angola's president Joao Lourenco speaks at EU-Africa online forum - 1030 GMT.
- LISBON - Portugal's finance minister Joao Leao speaks to lawmakers in a parliamentary committee on 2022 budget draft - 1400 GMT.
- BRUSSELS - Defence ministers from the NATO alliance meet in Brussels for a two-day summit chaired by Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Defence ministers will hold a meeting of the Nuclear Planning Group and then be joined by EU High Representative Borrell and non-NATO members Finland and Sweden to discuss EU-NATO cooperation - 0600 GMT.
- VIENNA - Austrian Foreign Minister meets with his Hungarian, Czech, Slovakian and Slovenian counterparts for talks in Vienna - 1130 GMT.
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during his visit to Russia. MOSCOW - Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett visit to Russia.
WELLINGTON - APEC 2021 Finance Ministers Meeting.
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- PRAGUE - Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu and a business delegation will visit Prague. (To Oct. 27)
LIBYA – 10th anniversary of declaration of Libya's Liberation.
VAN, Turkey – 10th anniversary of earthquake that killed more than 600 people and injured more than 4,000 others.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, OCT. 24BERLIN - World Health Summit takes place in Berlin and online. Speakers include WHO head Tedros, EU Council President Charles Michel, WTO Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. (To Oct. 26)
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN - ASEAN Business and Investment Summit (ABIS). (To Oct. 25)
Uzbekistan - Uzbekistan presidential elections.
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- HIMEJI, Japan - WHO and Japanese government hold regional meeting for COVID-19.
- STOCKHOLM/ HELSINKI - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to visit Sweden and Finland. (To Oct. 27) - - - - - - - - -
TUESDAY, OCT. 26
- BAKU - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay a working visit to Azerbaijan. BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN - ASEAN and related summit opens in Brunei. Leaders from the 10-member Association of the Southeast Asian Nations attend a regional summit (to Oct. 28).
OSLO - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will be in Tromsoe, northern Norway to meet his Norwegian and Finnish counterparts, as well as the Swedish deputy foreign minister for a meeting about regional cooperation among European Arctic countries - 0700 GMT.
OSLO - EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and the foreign ministers of Russia and the Nordic countries are due to meet in the Arctic town of Tromsoe to discuss cooperation in the Barents Sea region.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, OCT. 27LONDON - British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak gives a half-yearly update on the public finances and economic outlook - 1130 GMT.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, OCT. 28Brussels - Informal conference of EU economy and finance ministers.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, OCT. 29VATICAN CITY – U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican during a trip to Europe for two high-profile global summits.
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's finance minister will present the 2022 budget which is expected to prioritize economic recovery and post-pandemic reforms.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, OCT. 30ROME - Italy hosts major G20 summit in Rome (to Oct. 31).
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, OCT. 31TOKYO - Japan holds lower house election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, NOV. 1GLASGOW, Scotland - French President Emmanuel Macron attends to opening of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow.
SOUTH AFRICA - South Africa holds local government elections.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, NOV. 2NEW YORK - New Yorkers vote for mayor.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, NOV. 4VIENNA, Austria - 22nd OPEC and non-OPEC ministerial meeting.
TEHRAN – 42nd anniversary of U.S. embassy takeover. In 1979, Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and captured 90 hostages; 52 were held captive for 444 days.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, NOV. 6GLOBAL – International day for preventing the exploitation of the environment in war and armed conflict.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, NOV. 7MANAGUA, Nicaragua – Presidential election.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Nicaraguan National Assembly election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, NOV. 8BRUSSELS - Euro zone finance ministers to discuss inflation, fiscal strategy, digital euro, solvency of firms, banking union - 1400 GMT.
BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.
WELLINGTON - Ministers of Asia-Pacific countries meet at the APEC Summit in New Zealand. (To Nov. 14)
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, NOV. 9BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10BERLIN - Denmark's Queen Margrethe II and Crown Prince Frederik visit Germany. (To Nov. 13)
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, NOV. 11BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council (Trade) meeting.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, NOV. 12TRIPOLI - French president Emmanuel Macron hosts international summit on Libya
BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Budget) meeting.
BRUSSELS - World Pneumonia Day.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, NOV. 13YANGON, Myanmar – 10th anniversary of release of Myanmar's detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, from house arrest.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, NOV. 14SOFIA - Bulgaria holds parliamentary and presidential election.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentinian Senate election.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentinian Chamber of Deputies election.
GLOBAL – World Diabetes Day.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, NOV. 15BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, NOV. 16BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) meeting.
GLOBAL - International day for tolerance.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, NOV. 17GLOBAL – World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day.
GLOBAL - World Prematurity Day.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, NOV. 18VUKOVAR, Croatia – 30th anniversary of 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 a rubble in a brutal three-month siege.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, NOV. 19BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) meeting
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, NOV. 21VENEZUELA - Venezuela holds regional and local elections
SANTIAGO, Chile – Presidential election.
SANTIAGO, Chile – Chilean Chamber of Deputies election.
SANTIAGO, Chile – Chilean Senate election.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, NOV. 23BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, NOV. 25GLOBAL – International day for the elimination of violence against women.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, NOV. 26MUMBAI, 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.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, NOV. 28TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Presidential election.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Honduran National Congress election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, NOV. 29GENEVA - 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 angry over Britain's unilateral sanctions.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, NOV. 30GENEVA, Switzerland - World Trade Organization holds ministerial meeting (to Dec 3)
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, DEC. 4BANJUL, Gambia - Presidential elections.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, DEC. 6BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, DEC.7BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, DEC. 9BRUSSELS - EU Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting (to Dec 10).
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, DEC. 11PALESTINE - Palestinians to hold local election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, DEC. 13BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, DEC. 14BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, DEC. 16BRUSSELS - European Council meeting (to Dec 17).
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, DEC. 19HONG KONG - Hong Kong Legislative Council election.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, DEC. 24TRIPOLI, Libya - Presidential elections.
TRIPOLI, Libya - Referendum election.
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