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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ----------------------------------------------------------- TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19 ** KIEV - European Council President Donald Tusk will pay an official visit to Ukraine (to Feb. 20).
** BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a keynote speech at the 'Digitising Europe' conference in Berlin. LONDON - London Fashion Week Winter 2019 (final day).
SOFIA, RABAT, MADRID – Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will undertake a four-day visit to Bulgaria, Morocco and Spain (to Feb. 20).
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN - Laos Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith will lead government officials on an official visit to Brunei (to Feb. 17).
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).
NEW DELHI - Argentine President Mauricio Macri is set to make a three-day visit to India (final day).
PARIS - Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili will visit to France (Final Day).
BEIJING – Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation of Djibouti, will pay an official visit to China (to Feb. 21). BEIJING – Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Chyngyz Aidarbekov will pay an official visit to China (to Feb. 23).
BERLIN - German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier holds a keynote speech at a DIHK event focusing on Latin America. Other speakers include Miguel Vargas, Foreign Minister for the Dominican Republic and Aurubis head of external affairs Marie-Christine von Hahn - 0815 GMT. NEW DELHI - Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince and Defence Minister Mohammed bin Salman to visit India (to Feb. 20)
BERLIN - Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili will visit Germany (to Feb. 21).
BERLIN - European Police Congress (to Feb. 20).
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20 ** BEIJING - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman will visit China.
** JAKARTA - Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani holds a news conference on state budget - 0830 GMT. ** PRAGUE - Czech Republic Foreign Minister Tomas Petricek will meet United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton, as well as Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development Mark Green (to Feb. 23). ** BERLIN – British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt is due to hold a speech on British-German friendship, with both countries looking to keep their close ties - 0900 GMT. ** BERLIN - British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt and his German counterpart Heiko Maas are due to hold a news conference after a meeting in Berlin, as London is trying to convince other EU nations to reopen a draft Brexit agreement to provide legal assurances over the Irish border - 1500 GMT. WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. President Donald Trump and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz confer at the White House.
BERLIN - Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili will visit to Germany (to Feb. 21)
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 BERLIN - Germany Economy Minister Peter Altmaier and his Russian counterpart, Maxim Oreshkin, will attend German commerce chambers' Russia conference in Berlin - 0900 GMT.
SEOUL - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit South Korea for a summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in (to Feb. 22)
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis begins four-day summit with senior Catholic bishops from around the world (to Feb. 24).
BUCHAREST - Informal meeting of trade ministers (to Feb. 22). - - - - - - - - -
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 22 BUCHAREST - EU ministers responsible for trade arrive for an informal meeting in Bucharest - 0700 GMT. - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24
SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt - The first summit between EU Member States and the Arab League will be held (to Feb. 25).
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 ** ISTANBUL - Turkey-European Union High Level Dialogue officials meet regarding economy and cooperation in Turkey. ** KOSICE, Slovakia – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg meets Central European, Baltic, Bulgarian and Romanian presidents. VIENNA - VIENNA Opera Ball 2019. - - - - - - - - -
FRIDAY, MARCH 1 ATLANTA, United States - 1st APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Meeting (to March 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 - APEC First Senior Officials' Meeting (to March 8).
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MONDAY, MARCH 11 ** HOUSTON, United States - Global energy ministers and executives from the world's largest oil producers meet in Houston to discuss factors affecting oil and gas, electricity and power markets (to March 15). 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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