News: DIARY-Political and General News Events from Sept 30

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    FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 
    

    ** SOFIA - Azerbaijan's President, Ilham Aliyev, will pay an official visit to Bulgaria (to October 1).

    ** SINGAPORE - President of the Republic of Rwanda Paul Kagame will make a working visit to Singapore. SYDNEY - Singapore Minister for Defence Ng Eng Hen will make an official visit to Australia (final day). SAN JOSÉ - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will hold talks with the Costa Rican government as part of its third review of the country's economic reforms (to Oct. 4). VIENNA - IAEA 66th General Conference (final day). MEXICO CITY - Mexico Economy Minister Tatiana Clouthier will speak at the three-day North Capital Forum in Mexico City (final day) MEXICO CITY - UNESCO to host World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development in Mexico (final day) HANOI - Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz will pay an official friendship visit to Vietnam (to Oct. 2). SOFIA - Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev to meet Bulgarian President Rumen Radev. MADRID - Spain´s eeconomy minister Nadia Calviño holds a meeting in Madrid with the Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders. ALICANTE, Spain - Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, attends EuroMed or MED-9 summit, which will host the presidents of the nine Southern countries of the European Union, including Cyprus, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain. BRUSSELS - Magrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for the digital age and competition, gives keynote speech at a conference of the Institute of International & European Affairs on "Europe in Changing Times" – 1230 GMT ALICANTE, Spain - Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, holds a meeting with Janez Janša, Prime Minister of Slovenia – 0730 GMT CZECH REPUBLIC - Czech upper house election - second round (to Oct. 1). BRUSSELS - European Union energy ministers meet to discuss soaring prices - 0630 GMT.

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    SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1 
    

    MADRID - The 2022 La Toja Forum concludes with the participation of Josep Borrell, vice-president of the European Commission – 0700 GMT GLOBAL - International day of older persons. ABUJA - Nigeria to celebrate its 62nd year of independence. CHINA – 73rd founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China. LATVIA - Latvian Parliament Election.

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    SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2 
    

    ** GENEVA - Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan will meet in Geneva GUINEA – 64th anniversary of independence from France. GLOBAL - International day of non-violence. BRAZIL - Brazil Presidential Election. BRAZIL - Brazilian Federal Senate Election. BRAZIL - Brazilian Chamber of Deputies Election. BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Bosnia and Herzegovina House of Representatives Election. BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Chairman of the Presidency Election.

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    MONDAY, OCTOBER 3 
    

    ** BOGOTA - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will arrive in Colombia to meet with Colombian President Gustavo Petro

    ** BUDAPEST - Press conference following Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's meeting with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer and Aleksandar Vucic, president of Serbia.- 1230 GMT

    ** PRAGUE - Slovakia's new Foreign Minister, Rastislav Kacer, visits Prague to meet his counterpart Jan Lipavsky. – 0815 GMT. LUXEMBOURG - Eurozone finance ministers to discuss the response to the economic situation in the bloc with high energy prices and inflation in a meeting in Luxembourg, also attended by Secretary-General of the OECD Mathias Cormann – 0800 GMT LONDON - British finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng speaks at the annual Conservative party conference in the aftermath of the pound plummeting following his mini budget. LUXEMBOURG – Eurogroup meeting.

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    TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4 
    

    TALLINN - President of Finland Sauli Niinistö will pay a working visit to Estonia and meet with Estonian counterpart Alar Karis to discuss bilateral relations between Finland and Estonia GENEVA - Ukraine debate at UN Human Rights Council . LUXEMBOURG - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.

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    WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5 
    

    GLOBAL - World Teachers' Day. SAN FRANCISCO – 11th death anniversary of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. MADRID - Spain´s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez meets German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at German-Spanish summit in Madrid.

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    THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6 
    

    PRAGUE - EU leaders meet at informal summit in Prague (to Oct. 7).

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    FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 
    

    MOSCOW - 16th anniversary of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

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    SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9 
    

    GLOBAL - World Post Day. AUSTRIA - 2022 Austrian presidential election.

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    MONDAY, OCTOBER 10 
    

    GLOBAL - World mental health day. GLOBAL - World day against death penalty. FIJI – 52nd anniversary of independence. CANBERRA - Australia's energy minister Chris Bowen speaks at Australian Financial Review Climate and Energy Summit.

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    TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11 
    

    BRATISLAVA - Presidents of Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, the Visegrad Group, meet in Slovakia. BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives a press conference ahead of a NATO Defence Ministers meeting in Brussels. MEXICO CITY - Mexico economy minister Tatiana Clouthier, business leaders speak at LATAM Mobility Summit (to Oct. 12) PRAGUE - EU Informal meeting of energy ministers (to Oct. 12). STOCKHOLM - Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima on a three-day state visit to Sweden (to Oct. 13).

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    WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12 
    

    BRUSSELS - NATO defence ministers meet in Brussels (To Oct 13) BALI - 20th anniversary of Bali bombings.

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    THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13 
    

    MANILA - Philippines finance minister Benjamin Diokno delivers keynote speech at a convention for thrift banks – 1800 GMT. GLOBAL - World Sight Day. GLOBAL - International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction. SAN JOSE, Chile – 12th anniversary of rescue of 33 Chilean miners trapped in a collapsed Andean mine. BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives a press conference as defence ministers from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation gather in Brussels (to Oct. 14). LUXEMBOURG - EU Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting (to Oct. 14).

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    SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15 
    

    GLOBAL - United Nation's world hand-washing day. GLOBAL - International day of rural women.

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    SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 
    

    SYDNEY - Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will visit Australia (to October 18). GLOBAL - World food day. BEIJING - China to hold 20th Communist party congress starting on Oct. 16. BERLIN - World Health Organization hold 2022 Summit in Berlin (to Oct. 18).

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    MONDAY, OCTOBER 17 
    

    HANOI - OECD-Southeast Asia Ministerial Forum (to October 18). GLOBAL - International day for the eradication of poverty. LUXEMBOURG - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.

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    TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18 
    

    JERUSALEM – 11th anniversary of release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit after more than five years of being held incommunicado by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. LUXEMBOURG - EU General Affairs Council meeting.

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    WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19 
    

    BANGKOK - Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Finance ministers meeting (to Oct. 21).

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    THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20 
    

    TRIPOLI – 11th anniversary of capture and killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. BRUSSELS - European Council meeting (to Oct. 21).

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    FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21 
    

    BRUSSELS - EU leaders meet in Brussels.

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    SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23 
    

    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. SLOVENIA - Slovenia holds presidential elections.

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    MONDAY, OCTOBER 24 
    

    TAIPEI CITY - Taiwan hosts the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy's World Movement for Democracy summit (to Oct. 27).

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    TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25 
    

    BERLIN - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen host a conference on post-war reconstruction of Ukraine in Berlin.

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    WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26 
    

    PRETORIA - South Africa's finance minister Enoch Godongwana will present medium term budget policy statement, which updates economic forecasts, adjusts the budget and makes emergency changes to spending – 1200 GMT.

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    FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28 
    

    KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's finance minister will announce budget plans for 2023 amid higher subsidy bills and rising prices that are hurting fiscal strength.

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    SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30 
    

    PRAGUE - EU Informal meeting of trade ministers (to Oct. 31).

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    THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3 
    

    MANAMA - Pope Francis visits Bahrain (to November 6). MUNSTER, Germany - G7 foreign ministers to meet in Munster (to Nov. 4).

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    MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7 
    

    BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.

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    TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8 
    

    WASHINGTON, D.C. - US House of Representatives election. WASHINGTON, D.C. - US Senate election. BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.

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    FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11 
    

    PHNOM PENH - Leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) bloc and counterparts from other related countries attend the 40th and 41st regional summit (to Nov. 13). BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (budget) meeting.

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    MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14 
    

    BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.

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    TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15 
    

    BALI - Indonesia set to host the G20 Summit on the resort island of Bali (to November 16). BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council (defence) meeting.

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    FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18 
    

    BANGKOK - Leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) inter-governmental forum from 21 member economies in the Pacific Rim attends the annual summit in Bangkok (To Nov 19) BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting.

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