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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20 ** TOKYO - Finland's Minister of Economic Affairs Mika Lintila leads a delegation to Japan (final day). ** BRUSSELS - British Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will meet to discuss Brexit - 1730 GMT. ** BRUSSELS - EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker holds a joint news conference with the Slovenian President Borut Pahor in Brussels - 1600 GMT. ** NEW DELHI, India - Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman attends a banquet hosted by Indian President Ram Nath Kovind - 1400 GMT. ** MADRID - Portugal's President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa meets Spain's King Felipe VI at a luncheon in Madrid - 1300 GMT. ** VIENNA - Hungarian President Janos Ader will meet Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen - 1030 GMT. ** MANILA - Philippine Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno holds his regular "Breakfast with Ben" news conference and will discuss updates on the cash-based budgeting and infrastructure projects - 0030 GMT. ** HANOI - Argentina President Mauricio Macri will pay a state visit to Viet Nam (to Feb. 21).
** HANOI - Argentina President Mauricio Macri will meet Vietnamese president and general secretary of the ruling Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Vietnam. KIEV - European Council President Donald Tusk will pay an official visit to Ukraine (final day).
SOFIA/ RABAT/ MADRID – Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will undertake a four-day visit to Bulgaria, Morocco and Spain (final day).
VENICE, Italy - Venice Carnival (NYSE:CCL) 2019 (to March 5).
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 - Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili will visit Germany (to Feb. 21).
BERLIN - European Police Congress (final day).
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 ** WARSAW - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire to deliver a lecture in Warsaw - 1700 GMT. ** BRUSSELS - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker speaks at the plenary session of the European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels - 0900 GMT. ** BEIJIN - Kyrgyzstan Foreign Minister Chingiz Aidarbekov meets his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, followed by a news conference - 0330 GMT. 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).
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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 22 ** HAMBURG, Germany - Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis takes part in the traditional annual 'Matthiae Dinner' (Matthiae- Mahlzeit) at the town hall in Hamburg together with Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier - 1800 GMT. ** MADRID - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to meet his Swedish counterpart Stefan Lofven in Madrid - 1700 GMT. ** MOSCOW - Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov speaks about Russia-EU relations at Association of European Businesses session (AEB), organization aimed at promoting economic partnership partnership between EU and Russia - 1200 GMT. ** BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes the Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis at the Chancellery in Berlin - 0930 GMT. ** MEIRINGEN, Switzerland - Switzerland President Ueli Maurer will meet Bulgarian President Rumen Radev at Swiss Air Force base in Meiringen - 0830 GMT. ** BUCHAREST - EU trade ministers will arrive for an informal meeting in Bucharest to discuss the possible start of trade negotiations with the United States. ** BEIJING - Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will meet Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing - 0200 GMT. 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. - - - - - - - - -
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25
** GENEVA, Switzerland – United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres makes opening remarks at a panel event in Switzerland - 1800 GMT. ** GENEVA, Switzerland - Venezuela Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza Montserrat scheduled to address U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva - 1340 GMT. ** TOKYO - Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi visits Japan (to Feb. 26). ** HANOI - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives in Vietnam ahead of a planned second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump. - - - - - - - - -
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26
** HANOI - U.S. President Donald Trump will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for a second summit in Vietnam (to March 1).
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 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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