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- ROME - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg travels to Italy - 1430 GMT.
- BEJING - Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare attends a welcome ceremony with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang - 0200 GMT.
- ATHENS - European Council President Donald Tusk meets with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
- ALGIERS - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu visits Algeria and meets Algerian officials and representatives of the Turkish business community there.
- BRUSSELS - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and the EU's Chief Brexit Negotiator Michel Barnier discuss Brexit with EU lawmakers ahead of a make-or-break EU leaders summit on October 17-18 - 1300 GMT. SIEMREAP, Cambodia - 15th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Environment(AMME) (final day). SIEMREAP, Cambodia - 15th ASEAN Plus Three Environment Ministers Meeting(EMM) (final day). SINGAPORE - 18th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Science, Technology and Innovation(AMMSTI-18) (to Oct 11). BELGRADE - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits Serbia (final day). LJUBLJANA - Belgium's Prime Minister Charles Michel visits Slovenia.
BRUSSELS - EU press conference on cybersecurity of 5G networks - 1230 GMT. BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping meets Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan at Diaoyutai state guesthouse in Beijing - 0300 GMT. CANBERRA, Australia - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte meets Australian counterpart Scott Morrison during a visit to Australia.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte meets New Zealand counterpart Jacinda Ardern.
SYDNEY - Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte visits Australia and meets Australian counterpart Scott Morrison (to Oct 11). GLOBAL - World post day. LUXEMBOURG - Eurogroup meeting.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10
- NOVI SAD - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and North Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev meet for talks in the northern Serbia city of Novi Sad - 1000 GMT.
- CANBERRA, Australia - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte gives a keynote address at the Lowy Institute on the topic of "Middle Power The last defenders of the international rules-based order."
- ATHENS - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg travels to Athens to meet with the President of Greece, Prokopios Pavlopoulos, and the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis. - 1700 GMT
- BAKU - Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia will visit Azerbaijan.
LIMA - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera visits Peru to discuss bilateral relations with President Martin Vizcarra. NUR-SULTAN - Prime Minister of Mongolia Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh will pay an official visit to Kazakhstan (to Oct. 12).
GLOBAL - World mental health day.
GLOBAL - World day against death penalty.
GLOBAL - World sight day.
FIJI – 49th anniversary of independence. RIYADH - Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Saudi Arabia.
REYKJAVIK - U.S. Energy Secretary Perry to speak at Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik (to Oct. 13). ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan – The CIS Council of Foreign Ministers will meet in Ashgabat. LUXEMBOURG - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
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- ISTANBUL - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg travels to Istanbul, will meet with senior Turkish leaders - 1030 GMT.
- STRBSKE PLESO, Slovakia - European Council President Donald Tusk visits Slovakia, where he will make a speech at the end of the first day of a summit hosted by think tank GLOBSEC - 1800 GMT. MAMALLAPURAM, TAMIL NADU, India - Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet Indian Prime Minister during a two-day long summit in the southern state of Tamil Nadu (to Oct 13). STRBSKE PLESO, Slovakia - Slovakian Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini, Slovakian central bank governor and member of the ECB governing council Peter Kazimir, President of the European Council Donald Tusk, Vice-President of the European Commission for the Euro and Social Dialogue Valdis Dombrovskis, European Investment Bank Vice-President Vazil Hudak will speak at the annual Tatra Summit conference (to Oct. 12). - - - - - - - - -
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12
BALI - 17th anniversary of Bali bombings.
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- KATHMANDU - Chinese President Xi Jinping visits Nepal and meets Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.
GLOBAL - International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction.
SAN JOSE, Chile – 9th anniversary of rescue of 33 Chilean miners trapped in a collapsed Andean mine. Poland - Polish Senate election. Poland - Election for Polish Sejm.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, OCTOBER 14RIYADH - Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Saudi Arabia.
ISLAMABAD - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit Pakistan (to Oct. 18). LUXEMBOURG - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting SANTIAGO – APEC finance ministers' meeting (to Oct. 15).
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15GLOBAL - United Nation's world hand-washing day.
GLOBAL - International day of rural women. LUXEMBOURG - EU General Affairs Council (Art. 50) meeting MAPUTO - Election for President.
MAPUTO - Election for Mozambican Assembly.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16BRUSSELS - The presidents of the European Council and the European Commission – Donald TUSK and Jean-Claude Juncker, Nicos Anastasiades (Cyprus), Boyko Borissov (Bulgaria), Klaus Iohannis (Romania), Krisjanis Kariņs (Latvia), Angela Merkel (Germany), Kyriakos Mitsotakis (Greece), Andrej Plenkovic (Croatia), and Leo Varadkar (Ireland) have been invited - 1030 GMT.
GLOBAL - World food day.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17GIBRALTAR - Gibraltarian parliament election.
GLOBAL - International day for the eradication of poverty. BRUSSELS - EU European Council meeting (to Oct. 18)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18JERUSALEM – Eight anniversary of release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit after more than five years of being held incommunicado by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20TRIPOLI – Eight anniversary of capture and killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Bolivia - Bolivian Chamber of Senators election
Bolivia - Bolivian Chamber of Deputies election Bolivia – President election
BERN - Referendum election.
BERN - Election for Swiss National Council.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, OCTOBER 21OTTAWA - Election for Canadian House of Commons.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary-General Jeans Stoltenberg holds a news conference ahead of a two-day meeting of the military alliance's defence ministers. LIBYA – Eight anniversary of declaration of Libya's Liberation.
VAN, Turkey – Eight anniversary of earthquake that killed more than 600 people and injured more than 4,000 others.
Botswana - Botswana National Assembly election.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24BRUSSELS - NATO Defence ministers meet in Brussels (to Oct. 25). SOCHI - Russia hosts Russia-Africa summit co-chaired by President Vladimir Putin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25SYDNEY - Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama to attend dinner in Sydney.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27URUGUAY – President election. URUGUAY - Uruguayan Chamber of Representatives election. OMAN - Omani Consultative Assembly election. BUENOS AIRES - Election for Argentinian Chamber of Deputies.
BUENOS AIRES - Election for Argentinian Senate.
BUENOS AIRES - Election for President.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29GREECE - European and Arab officials meet in Athens to discuss issues ranging from climate change to migration and sustainable development. (to Oct 30).
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31BANGKOK – ASEAN Senior Officials' Meeting (to Nov 4). ISTANBUL, Turkey - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will visit Turkey.
BANGKOK - Leaders from Southeast and East Asian nations gather in Bangkok to attend the 35th ASEAN Summit and related summits before handing over the chairmanship to Vietnam (to Nov. 4). LONDON - UK Speaker of the House John Bercow will step down on 31-Oct-2019.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1ATHENS - Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit Greece.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4GENEVA - OECD Economic Survey Switzerland 2019
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting. BUDAPEST - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits Hungary.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. SANTIAGO, Chile - Heads of states from participants in the year-long Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum gather for final meeting (to Nov 17).
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) meeting.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15HAVANA - Spain's King Felipe and Queen Letizia begin their first state visit to Cuba where they will attend the celebrations of Havana's 500 years of founding.
BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Budget) meeting. SANTIAGO - China's President Xi Jinping in an official visit to Chile meets Chile's President Sebastian Pinera.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17BELARUS - Belarusian Chamber of Representatives election.
SRI LANKA -Referendum election.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20BANGKOK – Pope Francis will visit Thailand (to Nov. 23)
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21BANGKOK - Pope Francis meets Thai king Vajiralongkorn during his official visit to Thailand.
BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council (Trade) meeting. BANGKOK - Pope Francis attends welcome ceremony by Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and will give a speech on the second day of his visit.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22NAGOYA, Japan - Japan hosts a two-day meeting of G20 Foreign Ministers in Nagoya (to Nov. 23).
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23TOKYO – Pope Francis will visit Japan, during which time he will go to Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as Tokyo (to Nov 26).
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24TOKYO - Pope Francis departs for Nagasaki to speak at the Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Park and hold a Holy Mass - 2200 GMT. TOKYO - Pope Francis arrives in Tokyo from Hiroshima ahead of his Tokyo agenda, including meeting Emperor Naruhito and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe - 1310 GMT. SWITZERLAND – Referendum election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25TOKYO - Pope Francis meets Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, authorities, and the Diplomatic Corps at the prime minister's office. BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27NAMIBIA – Referendum election. NAMIBIA - Namibian National Assembly election.
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