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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. Indicates new events ----------------------------------------------------------- TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 ** AMMAN - Prime Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah headed to Jordan (final day of two-day visit). ** WARSAW - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Poland for the US-Middle East Summit on Peace and Security.
** RIYADH - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on visit to Saudi Arabia. ** PARIS - British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt will meet French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and European Affairs Minister Nathalie Loiseau to discuss Brexit. ** SALT, Jordan - Queen Maxima of the Netherlands visits Jordan. ** STRASBOURG, France - British ministers, David Lidington and Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay, will meet European politicians to discuss Brexit and Britain's attempts to change the deal for Britain to leave the EU. ** MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets representatives of Palestinian factions, with Fatah and Hamas both invited - 1200 GMT.
LONDON - President of Ireland Michael Higgins is beginning a three-day visit to England, during which he is expected to call for ties between Ireland and the UK to remain strong after Brexit (to Feb. 13)
BERLIN – 69th Berlin International Film Festival (to Feb. 17).
NEW YORK, United States – Women's New York Fashion Week 2019 (to Feb. 13).
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - 2019 Winter European Youth Olympic Festival (to Feb. 16). NEW DELHI - Oil minister of Iran, UAE, Russia, Indonesia, Mexico, Canada and Oman among others, will attend biennial conference Petrotech (Final Day). BUDAPEST/BRATISLAVA/WARSAW/BRUSSELS/REYKJAVIK - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Belgium and Iceland to discuss bilateral ties and international issues (to Feb. 15) NEW YORK - 142th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show (Final Day).
PYONGYANG - Vietnam Foreign Minster Pham Binh Minh to visit North Korea (to Feb. 14)
BERLIN - Germany Economy Minister Peter Altmaier holds a conference on liquified natural gases in his ministry that US Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette as well as representatives from U.S. and German companies, and energy lobbies will attend - 0900 GMT.
ACCRA - Accra hosts German African Business Summit (to Feb. 14). BRATISLAVA - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to visit Slovakia. BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to hold a news conference ahead of a meeting of defence ministers - 1000 GMT. STRASBOURG, France - Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte addresses the European Parliament in Strasbourg as part of a series of debates with national leaders on the future of the European Union – 1600 GMT.
BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council to conduct a meeting. - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13 ** KUALA LUMPUR - Thailand foreign minister Don Pramudwinai will visit Malaysia.
** WARSAW - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, in Poland for the Mideast conference, meets President Andrzej Duda. ** SOCHI, Russia - Russia President Vladimir Putin meets Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. ** WARSAW - British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt heads to Poland to discuss Brexit with ministers. ** BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and U.S. acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan give short statements to the media ahead of a defence ministers meeting at the alliance HQ in Brussels - 1220 GMT. ** BRUSSELS - NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg makes opening remarks at a meeting of defence ministers - 1300 GMT.
BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel at the Chancellery in Berlin - 1230 GMT. WASHINGTON D.C.- U.S. President Donald Trump and Colombian President Ivan Duque Marques confer at the White House on the situation in Venezuela and other matters.
BRUSSELS - NATO defence ministers meet at the alliance HQ in Brussels (to Feb. 14). BERLIN - Germany's Finance Minister Olaf Scholz is due to speak at a book presentation by former Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere in Berlin - 1330 GMT.
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May to update House of Commons on Brexit.
MADRID - Spanish Economy Minister Nadia Calvino to close event on the Euro 2018 yearbook in Madrid - 1200 GMT. BEIRUT - 11th anniversary of the death of Hezbollah commander Imad Moughniyah. GLOBAL - World Radio Day. - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14 ** SEOUL - Austria Chancellor Sebastian Kur visits South Korea - 0700 GMT ** MADRID - Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to meet Luxembourg counterpart Xavier Bettel in Madrid - 1300 GMT
SOCHI, Russia - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will meet in Russia's coastal city of Sochi. LONDON - MPs due will have another chance to vote on British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plans.
GLOBAL - Valentine's Day. BEIRUT - 14th anniversary of the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri. - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 ** AUSCHWITZ - Poland President Andrzej Duda and US Vice President Mike Pence will visit Auschwitz.
** PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron meets Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed at the Elysee Palace in Paris - 1000 GMT.
** PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron meets his Ivorian counterpart Alassane Ouattara at the Elysee Palace - 1700 GMT.
REYKJAVIK - U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo visits Iceland where he will meet Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir and Foreign Minister Gudlaugur Thordarson.
BRUSSELS - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini - 0700 GMT.
LONDON - London Fashion Week Winter 2019 (to Feb. 19). - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16 ** ISLAMABAD - Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammad bin Salman will embark on a two-day visit to Islamabad (to Feb. 17).
VENICE, Italy - Venice Carnival (NYSE:CCL) 2019 (to March 5).
ABUJA - Nigerian Presidential Election. ABUJA - Nigerian House of Representatives election. ABUJA - Nigerian Senate election. - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17 PARIS - Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili will visit to France (to Feb. 19)
PRISTINA - 11th anniversary of Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia. NEW YORK - 2019 Writers Guild Awards New York Ceremony. - - - - - - - - -
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18
BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19 BERLIN - Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili will visit Germany (to Feb. 21)
BERLIN - European Police Congress (To Feb. 20)
BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - -
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20 LONDON - The BRIT Awards 2019.
CAIRO - The first summit between EU Member States and the Arab League to be held. European and Arab state leaders to discuss migration and other issues at the summit to be hosted by Egypt. - - - - - - - - -
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21 BUCHAREST - Informal meeting of trade ministers (to Feb. 22). - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24
HAVANA - Referendum election. CAIRO - EU-League of Arab States summit (to Feb. 25). CHISINAU - Moldovan Parliament election. BANGKOK - Thailand Senate election. BANGKOK - Thailand House of Representatives election. - - - - - - - - -
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 HANOI - U.S. President Donald Trump will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for a second summit in Vietnam (to Feb. 28) TEHRAN - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will visit Iran. CARACAS – 30th anniversary of deadly Caracas riots. - - - - - - - - -
THURSDAY, February 28 VIENNA - VIENNA Opera Ball 2019. - - - - - - - - -
FRIDAY, MARCH 1 ATLANTA, United States - 1st APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Meeting (to Mar. 4).
CAIRO - Arab foreign ministers to hold regular meeting at the Arab league headquarters in Cairo to discuss regional affairs. - - - - - - - - -
TUESDAY, MARCH 5 BRUSSELS - EU environment ministers meet to discuss foreign affairs matters.
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THURSDAY MARCH 7
SANTIAGO, Chile - APEC First Senior Officials' Meeting (to Mar. 8).
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MONDAY, MARCH 11 BRUSSELS - Euro zone finance ministers to meet in Brussels. BAGHDAD - Iran President Hassan Rouhani to visit Iraq. - - - - - - - - -
MONDAY, MARCH 18 BRUSSELS - EU foreign affairs ministers meet to be held to discuss foreign affairs matters. - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY MARCH 31 BAGHDAD - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Iraq.
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